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Installation view of Ohad Matalon’s radical conceptual exhibition "North True South Bright" at Contemporary by Golconda. The image showcases a large-scale static projection in a darkened gallery, highlighting Matalon’s pioneering, inventive technique of hybridizing film negatives with digital positives. This critically acclaimed installation, recognized as an Artforum Critic’s Pick, challenges conventional photography by transforming the space into an immersive, shifting ontological environment. Entrance View - Day 28 Installation view of Ohad Matalon’s radical conceptual exhibition "North True South Bright" at Contemporary by Golconda. The image showcases a large-scale static projection in a darkened gallery, highlighting Matalon’s pioneering, inventive technique of hybridizing film negatives with digital positives. This critically acclaimed installation, recognized as an Artforum Critic’s Pick, challenges conventional photography by transforming the space into an immersive, shifting ontological environment, East Wall - Day 22 Installation view of Ohad Matalon’s radical conceptual exhibition "North True South Bright" at Contemporary by Golconda. The image showcases a large-scale static projection in a darkened gallery, highlighting Matalon’s pioneering, inventive technique of hybridizing film negatives with digital positives. This critically acclaimed installation, recognized as an Artforum Critic’s Pick, challenges conventional photography by transforming the space into an immersive, shifting ontological environment, South Wall - Day 15 Installation view of Ohad Matalon’s radical conceptual exhibition "North True South Bright" at Contemporary by Golconda. The image showcases a large-scale static projection in a darkened gallery, highlighting Matalon’s pioneering, inventive technique of hybridizing film negatives with digital positives. This critically acclaimed installation, recognized as an Artforum Critic’s Pick, challenges conventional photography by transforming the space into an immersive, shifting ontological environment. Entrance View - Day 11 NOT A CLUE 8.18 DEGREES x 22 THE SCHOOL UNTITLED 18 MILK FACTORY UNTITLED 21 UNTITLED 50 UNTITLED 49 UNTITLED 21 UNTITLED 33 AN UNSEEN LAND OR IT IS ALL GONE IN REALITY UNTITLED 37 IMMANUEL DUALITY SHADE UNTITLED 43 KING HUSSEINS'S SUMMER PALACE - FRONT KING HUSSEIN'S PALACE - FRAGEMENT AS IF IT WAS MAGISCH LAND Outdoor \ digital installation n.176, Judean Desert STEEL KINGS HIGHWAY UNTITLED 45 ARTFORUM magazine official website header and navigation menu screenshot. Featuring the iconic black bold ARTFORUM typography logo centered over navigation links including News, Columns, Features, Previews, Reviews, Video, Current Issue, Archive, and Artguide. ARTFORUM Critics' Picks review image for Ohad Matalon's Tel Aviv solo exhibition at Contemporary by Golconda. A black and white large-format photograph capturing a giant static projection of a weather-beaten kitschy mountain landscape wallpaper with a lake, disrupted by a physical studio floor mop leaning against the wall. ARTFORUM artwork credit line screenshot text reading: Ohad Matalon, An Unseen Land or It Is All Gone in Reality, 2009-2010, photographic projection, dimensions variable. ARTFORUM review text excerpt screenshot by art critic Julia Friedman. Paragraph discussing Matalon's innate sense of humor in "An Unseen Land or It Is All Gone in Reality", analyzing the juxtaposition of the idyllic lake landscape with the droopy twines of a studio floor mop, positioning the viewer in an ambiguous double-photographed zone. ARTFORUM critical review text excerpt screenshot by Julia Friedman. Paragraph describing how Matalon constructs a complex spatial environment in a dark gallery space where ten giant projections of photographic negatives overlaid on positives become metaphoric passageways into uninhabited landscapes, mentioning works titled "The School" and "Emanuel". Ohad Matalon, North-True South-Bright — Haaretz Newspaper Official Art Review Archive. A high-resolution archival screenshot displaying the official print art critique published in Haaretz Newspaper, titled "Image Shredder" (Toraf Dimuyim) by prominent art critic Smadar Sheffi. The page features columns of Hebrew text analyzing conceptual photographer Ohad Matalon's breakthrough solo exhibition hosted at Contemporary by Golconda gallery in Tel Aviv. Ohad Matalon, North-True South-Bright — ARTCO Magazine International Art Feature Archive. A high-resolution editorial spread screenshot from the prestigious Asian contemporary art magazine, ARTCO (June 2010). The print layout displays traditional Chinese typography columns alongside high-contrast black and white installation views of conceptual artist Ohad Matalon's solo presentation. The Chinese headline translates to "The Political Play of Poetic Images," analyzing Matalon's experimental static projections at Contemporary by Golconda gallery.

North True

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October 29, 2024

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