LOT 97
| Technique | Sculpture |
| Size | 53.3 x 90.1 cm |
| Availability | Available |
| Donation | 70% |
A series of sculptures made from reconfigured, ready-made bows, transforming a centuries-old performative tool. In this body of work, the bows are stripped from their functional essence as a tool at the service of sound and are instead turned into a sculptural object in which materials––horsehair and wood, ––become the predominant aesthetic factors. The bow configuration is disrupted as Tsabar diverts the usual flow of the bow hair, from a closed loop on a single bow, to create continuity across two, three or four different bows. Tension and slack of the hair turns into a sculptural and visual moment between the two bows.
The resulting vocabulary of shapes, lines, and forms possesses a sensual and bodily presence.
About Naama Tsabar
Naama Tsabar’s practice fuses elements from sculpture, music, performance and architecture. Her interactive works expose hidden spaces and systems, reconceive gendered narratives, and shift the viewing experience to one of active participation.
Tsabar draws attention to the muted and unseen by propagating sound through space and sculptural form. Between sculpture and instrument, form and sound, Tsabar’s work lingers on the intimate, sensual and corporeal potentials within this transitional state. Collaborating with local communities of female identifying and gender non-conforming performers, Tsabar writes a new feminist and queer history of fluency.
Tsabar’s work was presented in institutions internationally, among them the The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), MoMA PS1 (New York), The Bass Museum (Miami), SFMoMA (San Francisco), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Tel Aviv), The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Herziliya) and the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart (Berlin).
Naama Tsabar (b. 1982, Israel) lives and works in New York. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2010 and her B.Ed.FA from Hamidrasha at Beit Berl. Solo exhibitions and performances of Tsabar have been presented at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart (Berlin), Astrup Fearnley Museet (Oslo), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Connecticut), CAC (New Orleans), The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), The Bass Museum (Miami), Kinosaito Arts Center (New York), Nasher Museum (North Carolina), CCA (Tel Aviv), Faena Art Center (Buenos Aires), Kunsthuas Baselland (Basel), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), Palais De Tokyo (Paris), The High Line (New York), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Tel Aviv), The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Herziliya). Selected group exhibitions featuring Tsabar’s work include the MCA Denver, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Centre Pompidou (Shanghai), Seattle Art Museum, Smart Museum of Art (Chicago), The Moody Center for the Arts (Houston), Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art (Ramat Gan), The Jewish Museum of Belgium (Brussels), Bat Yam Museum of Art (Bat Yam), Ballroom Marfa (Texas), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (Sint-Martens-Latem), Hessel Museum of Art at CCS Bard (New York), Haifa Museum of Art (Haifa), MoMA PS1 (New York), Tsabar’s work has been featured in publications including ArtForum, Art In America, ArtReview, ARTnews, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Frieze, Bomb Magazine, Art Asia Pacific, Wire, and Whitewall, among others.
Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A4 Arts Foundation, Centre Pompidou, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Bass Museum, Norton Museum of Art, Kadist Collection, Jimenez-Colón Collection, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel Museum, and Coleccion Dieresis.
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