'Human Forms' will be in Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park until November 1
From a forest in Japan to the streets of Madrid, art is capable of reinventing and conquering any space. And so it has Human Forms, the exhibition of Italian artist Ivo Bisignano , who has chosen the southern cave of the Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park, Israel.
The sample, which condenses the essence of several decades of Bisignano's artistic career and that will remain in this beautiful historical enclave until November , aims to demonstrate that physical distancing is not a barrier to enjoying art, even less so when the stage is a public space.
The womb of mother Earth and the origin of humanity as the axis of the exhibition
Secondly, Human Forms was also born from the desire to give realistic wooden sculptures of Bisignano a temporary home, thus obtaining a spectacular symbiosis between space and the new elements that occupy it.
For his creation, the artist found inspiration both in the Mother Earth -establishing a simile between the womb of this , which would be the origin of creation, and the cave as in its relationship with the emotional world.
The double nature of human beings (body and soul) is a key element in Human Forms. Phobia, obsession with beauty, sadness or racial diversity These are some of the themes that Bisignano deals with through his pieces.
Located at the outskirts of Jerusalem , the impressive cave in which the seven wooden sculptures and where are projected five pieces of video art that give life to the exhibition, has returned to open to the public, after 25 years closed, for this special occasion.
Digital art projected onto a prehistoric artwork
The result of choosing this archeological site - dating back to year 112 BC and that in its day was a marble quarry- to exhibit Bisignano's work has given rise to a magnificent experience in which the rudimentary and the digital have found the harmony.
The relationship between the mobile and the immobile, the permanent and the temporary, the living and the inert , is presented to the viewer through a unique language.
The sculptures , designed with a unique identity like monoliths , create a fascinating juxtaposition with the undulating walls of the cave; while the black and white animations , the projections of lyrical texts and the pop art references form a dichotomy between light and shadow in the place
'Human Forms' questions the relationship between the living and the inert
Apart from Bisignano's wooden sculptures of human forms, works of visual art and hand-drawn animations, Human Forms also has unpublished texts of figures from the art world and creative personalities such as the art critic Robert C. Morgan, the philosopher Binnie A Dansby, the architect Peter Cook or the chef Yotam Ottolenghi.
"I wanted to install Human Forms on the amazing Beit Guvrin South Cave to establish a temporary home for the work, but within a historical, archaeological and archaic context" Bisignano says. "In this case, the museum is the site itself," he concludes.
Art and nature have come together once again