ELAD LAROM

Catalog #: 29
Website:  http://cargocollective.com/eladlarom
Image:

Title: Fighters
Year: 2011
Value:  $1000
Size: 25x35 cm
Description: Oil on paper

 
About the artwork:
Research/position: A pseudoscientific processing of the visible and the invisible
in the brain map, in which the phenomenological world is delineated. The strive
for informative itemization in increasing resolutions, expressing a bottomless
existential interest. Mimicry of a scientific deduction process, from the incidental
to the significant, in order to dodge the divine dodger all the way to the limits
of the senses.

Medium/fragments: The medium as a simultaneously sublime and
interchangeable tool, in which desire and repulsion coexist in the same breath.
Manifestation of the images’ consumption culture in its current evolution.
Inflation of retouched fragments. A functional use of medium and its result –
physical flatness. The painting as a flat, multi-layered poster. The metaphysical
depth is obtained through symbol, shape and content. The flatness is the
uppermost crust covering a thematic depth, existential multi-dimensional
murmur bubbling under the representation.
The image will never form one homogenous theme, but rather a broken theme
which might express one thing and its complete opposite. The image is recycled,
manipulative, a vessel striving to expose fragments of cosmic, cultural, political
and personal truth. Shattering the vessels while using them.

Conspiracy/ paranoia: A focus of conscious tension documenting the edges
of sanity and insanity. A grain of truth and the conflicting routes leading to
enlightenment and the cul-de-sac of the psyche, the paranoia.

Through the mediation: Urban, architectural life, a message by means of a
symbol floating through all that is processed. A pyramidal society built upon
an image turned on its head. The re-branding of slavery, a colossal virus of the
conspiracy – paranoia psychosis.

Catastrophe: The strive of all things to their annihilation, a symptomatic result
of a latent disease. The manacles of equilibrium. The portals of equilibrium.


About the Artist: 
Education


2008 - 2010 
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, MFA program
2002 – 2006
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, BFA, Audio Visual Department

1996 – 1997
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

1995 – 1996 
Midrasha College of Art, Kfar Saba, Israel


Selected Group
Exhibitions


2011
The secret eight or House of mysteries, Hissin house, Tel Aviv
Magic without tears, Abulafya, Tel Aviv
"Lean?", Center of digital art, Holon
A Functional Dreamworld, Art Cube, Jerusalem, 
Pirates, Galon gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
City gallery, Kfar saba, Israel
2010
 2D & DVD, Sign, Groningen, The Netherlands
Neo Graphics, Bat-Yam Art Institute, Israel
“Fresh paint” Art fair, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Salame 10” Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Real presence
2010 Belgrade, Serbia
“So did Bezalel”, Art Gallery of Kfar Saba, Israel
"Fifteen men on a dead man's chest", GAL-ON Gallery, Tel aviv, Israel

2007 
"One; & the other painting",W139 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006 
"Coalitzia - een film van Elad Larom", W139 Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

2005 
“Cinema de Bricolage”, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004 
“Gemelijk”, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Screenings & Festivals


2007 
Euroshorts, Warsaw, Poland 
Filofest
2007 Ljubljana, Slovenia 
The Third Ear Cinema, Tel Aviv,Israel
2006 
Bellissima, Salto Television, The Netherlands

2004 
Museumnacht, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Funds and prizes


2010 
Encouragement Award. M.F.A Bezalel

2009 
Eileen and Donald Cooper Award. M.F.A Bezalel
2007 
Nederlands Fonds voor de Film development grant