{"id":5190,"title":"Rainbow: Rug","dimensions":"3.5 x 55 x 177 cm","date_begin":"1996-01-01","material":"aluminium, glass","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":24,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":7,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community ","cached_tag_list":"hologram","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eMoshe Ninio Rainbow: Rug is the first solo presentation on the West Coast of a distinguished Israeli artist whose oeuvre—comprised of drawings, photographs, and video—offers poignant insights into insistent universal themes. The exhibition features one of Ninio’s iconic works titled Rainbow: Rug, a hologram of a classic antique Turkish rug. The rug is revelatory in many ways; as a hologram, the image has a magical quality of moving in and out of the perceptual field. As a photographic image of a handmade object, it embodies the timeless beauty of craftsmanship and historical resonance. Rainbow: Rug will be on view in SMMoA’s Project Room 1 through April 18, 2015.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNinio uses holography as an optical device to directly engage the viewer with the artwork and the site itself. Because of the construction of Rainbow: Rug, there is only one angle in the installation where the image is fully visible and spectators must seek out this particular point in space. Articulated by art critic Tal Sterngast, “The image is hence ‘experienced’ ... it is both sorcerous and cheap, hoaxish and hypnotizing. The floor hologram functions as a simulation of an optical threshold.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe image of this artifact—a traditional Turkish rug inscribed with the symbols and techniques of a particular nomadic tribe—plays with the elusive nature of photographic and historical representation. Both the rug and the hologram of the rug defy total comprehension; they are submerged in partial darkness with the viewer, and require navigation and careful observation to produce revelation.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026nbsp;Source: \u003ca href=\"https://artmap.com/smmoa/exhibition/moshe-ninio-2015\"\u003ehttps://artmap.com/smmoa/exhibition/moshe-ninio-2015\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","date_end":"2000-01-01","reference":"BK007585","stream_count_app":31,"permalink":"rainbow-rug","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/016/672/medium_500/nino_rainbow_rug_front_1.jpg?1366654788","cached_actor_names":"Moshe Ninio","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Sculpture","nl":"Sculptuur","fr":"Sculpture"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/016/672/large/nino_rainbow_rug_front_1.jpg?1366654788","poster_credits":"(c)image: Moshe Ninio","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e*Rainbow: Rug* is een werk van de Israëlische kunstenaar Moshe Ninio. Het bestaat uit een hologram dat in een verduisterde ruimte op de grond wordt gelegd en schrijlings wordt belicht. Het holografische beeld is niet direct zichtbaar, maar kan alleen vanuit de juiste invalshoek worden ontwaard. In het zwevende, ijle beeld worden twee schijnbaar onverenigbare realiteiten met elkaar verbonden – de lumineuze kwaliteit van het gebroken licht doet het spectrum van een regenboog ontstaan, terwijl tegelijk ook de indruk van werkelijke diepte wordt geschapen in de donkere vouwen van een tapijt.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":765,"name":"Moshe Ninio","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}