{"id":5193,"title":"Zonder titel [Untitled]","dimensions":"80 x 100 cm","date_begin":"1995-01-01","material":"paint on aluminium","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":181,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003ehttps://youtu.be/7znMOw265Ac\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":"1996-01-01","reference":"BK007311","stream_count_app":22,"permalink":"zonder-titel-untitled--59","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Ido Bar-El","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":"Painting","nl":"Schilderij","fr":""},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/009/608/large/Bar-El__Ido___Zonder_Titel__1995-1996.jpg?1339157281","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIdo Bar-El tries to avoid the spell of art history as much as possible.\u0026nbsp; Since the 1990s he\u0026#39;s been concentrating on colour, form and texture.\u0026nbsp; Painting is itself the subject and purpose of his artistic practice.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBar-El opts for non-conventional supports (like found chests, doors, table-tops, drawers, boxes etc.) and simplified motifs.\u0026nbsp; These \u0026#39;pictograms\u0026#39; present objects that include machines, measuring instruments, toys and shopping carts, but sometimes they are so rudimentally presented or so vaguely painted, that the viewer can barely recognize them. Indeed, they move in the realm of total abstraction.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom his own testimony, the work of Ido Bar-El turns around painting: the pleasure of painting, the communion with materials, and the manipulation of various parameters.\u0026nbsp; The focus lies on the work of art and not on anything extraneous to it.\u0026nbsp; This is also apparent from the stillness within which they are invariably shrouded: no stories are told, no words are said, no titles are provided. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNonetheless, these are not purely aesthetic objects.\u0026nbsp; The artist chooses his materials \u0026ndash; support and medium \u0026ndash; with an eye to their incompatibility.\u0026nbsp; The materials brought together in a painting repel one another, like the dilute oil paint that \u0026#39;retreats\u0026#39; from the aluminium, so evoking the uneasiness felt by the artist vis-\u0026agrave;-vis contemporary society, in particular with respect to the Middle East.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIdo Bar-El probeert zich zo weinig mogelijk van de kunstgeschiedenis aan te trekken. Sinds de jaren \u0026#39;90 concentreert hij zich op kleur, vorm en textuur. Het schilderen is het onderwerp en doel van zijn artistieke praktijk.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBar-El kiest voor niet-klassieke dragers (gevonden kasten, kastdeuren, tafelbaden, laden, dozen, enzovoort) en vereenvoudigde motieven. Deze \u0026lsquo;pictogrammen\u0026rsquo; stellen onder andere machines, meetinstrumenten, speelgoed en boodschappenwagentjes voor, maar soms zijn ze zo rudimentair weergegeven of zo vaag geschilderd, dat de toeschouwer ze nauwelijks kan herkennen; ze bewegen zich richting totale abstractie.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHet werk van Ido Bar-El draait naar eigen zeggen om het schilderen: het plezier van het schilderen, de omgang met de materialen en het manipuleren van de verschillende parameters. De focus ligt op het kunstwerk en niet op iets erbuiten. Dit blijkt ook uit de stilte waarin ze steevast zijn gehuld: er wordt geen verhaal verteld, geen woord gezegd, zelfs geen titel meegegeven.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eToch zijn het geen puur esthetische objecten. De kunstenaar kiest zijn materialen \u0026ndash; drager en medium \u0026ndash; met het oog op hun onverenigbaarheid. De materialen die in een schilderij worden samengebracht stoten elkaar af, zoals de verdunde olieverf die zich terugtrekt van het aluminium, zodat ze de onbehaaglijkheid oproepen die de kunstenaar in onze hedendaagse maatschappij, zeker in die in het Midden-Oosten, ervaart.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"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":798,"name":"Ido Bar-El","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}