Tribal Bonfire
Nadav Parazenchevski (FineArc)
Constrained and semi constrained Lichtenberg figures on scavenged and upcycled plywood with textile dyes and mica-pigmented epoxy. Commissioned by and presented at We-Art Gallery at the 2025 June - October exhibition "Choreography of Color" - a title I am surely one of the few to find terrifying. But color and dance are about decision and presence in the moment - My two main fears. The piece portrays my experience from the fourth grade, when one day, social games turned into dancing, with no rules and no winners. Time and again, I was left on the sidelines, until my forties. The more people tried to help, the more I crashed against the walls of expectation and failure. Under African skies, which represent the birthplace of humanity to me, and from a voyeuristic, foreign perspective, I painted seven figures, one of them hidden; Under stars, sunset, and daylight, to extend the present in the dimension of time - maybe given enough time, I’ll find compassion for that child I was, whom I am, who is still crying on the sidelines - well, for now, at least. To grow from him and from wins and losses, and just be. During the exhibition, an encounter of Ecstatic Dancing took place, and the gallery owner invited me, so before i could work up the fear, i took the train and participated. It was one of the scariest things I have ever done in my life, but there was a moment when, alongside the fear, I felt the dance inside me, from within. Not as a riddle to solve or a mask to hide fear, but as an appetite. Just for a few moments. Did I solve the whole problem like in a Hollywood movie? No. But it is a precedent, and I will hop on the next opportunity, too.
Nadav Parazenchevski (FineArc)
An autodidactic research artist developing a unique artistic medium based on the Lichtenberg Figures phenomena - fractal dielectric breaking of materials in high voltage current. In his work he turns electric resistance into a brush and creates a complex dialogue between the raw forces of nature and the human capacity to instill intention and meaning, a perception formed along a decade of experimentation and inspired by his experience in dog training and preschool education - to form a framework of boundaries allowing freedom within. The method's evolution focuses on the interactions between control and submission, wherein from year to year, he moves from enforcing his will on the material into listening to it, thus tempting them into forging images, textures and shapes involving scientific, natural and narrative contents, from the resolution of the sub atomic to the cognitive, using scavenged materials, while evolving the technique to a rich, high contrast and vibrant visual language Http://FineArt.Art
An autodidactic research artist developing a unique artistic medium based on the Lichtenberg Figures phenomena - fractal dielectric breaking of materials in high voltage current. In his work he turns electric resistance into a brush and creates a complex dialogue between the raw forces of nature and the human capacity to instill intention and meaning, a perception formed along a decade of experimentation and inspired by his experience in dog training and preschool education - to form a framework of boundaries allowing freedom within. The method's evolution focuses on the interactions between control and submission, wherein from year to year, he moves from enforcing his will on the material into listening to it, thus tempting them into forging images, textures and shapes involving scientific, natural and narrative contents, from the resolution of the sub atomic to the cognitive, using scavenged materials, while evolving the technique to a rich, high contrast and vibrant visual language Http://FineArt.Art
