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ERICA WEISZ-SCHVEIGER
Lives and works in Beer-Sheva, Israel
ericaw @ eudoramail.com
“As a world born in its purest hour” – these are the words Michaela Bocu Sometimes it’s the way of the memory and of forgetting. But the stone, for
used to describe the textile poems of Erica Weisz-Schweiger on the instance, has many meanings - between Scylla and Charibda, to the stones
occasion of the opening of her personal exhibition at the National Museum on the Temple Mount, or the crystal of the philosophic stone. A special
of Arts in Cluj in 2003. The works of this artist are something between a place is also occupied by the symbolism of the water and the fire, which
carpet and a painting. As she herself sometimes says, “I don’t use colors as sometimes change functions between themselves. The artist uses very old
makeup on the canvas, but I try to transform it into a body, into the essence weaving techniques -the haute lisse - to which are added others, like the
of creation.” The carpet is an object made of material, but at the same time double warp that enables the creation of relief, and the sumac that allows
it is a purely spiritual creation. Through colors and forms, it brings a variety lines to be “drawn” in all directions. Erica has a kind of reserve toward the
of human experiences that come during the entire course of our lives and newest expressions in art. She doesn’t look for innovation for the sake of
define and determine our destiny together with our most profound innovation. Notwithstanding her acquaintance with the history of art and
existence. Our joys, euphoria, sadness, rebellion, losses, loneliness, present artistic practices, her work represents a creation that has its origins
religious beliefs, and hopes are brought here by way of the symbols of the in the deep human experience. This experience is not connected to any
general human subconscious. As described by Jung, these are the animus specific and defined expression of the present or the past, because the
and anima of the stone, wood, bird, cables and bundles, and the serpent (if artist hears and presents one single voice - that of her own soul, which
we will mention only some of them) - but all those universal dreams receive imposes itself on her. She feels herself to be an instrument for the
the artist’s personal accent. These and other motifs return many times, expression of the personal experience together with the universal one. This
each time with another new meaning. is the experience beyond words.
An Experience beyond the Words by Ilana Efraim
STUDY I, DRAWING 16X24 IN. / 40X60 CM
STUDY II, DRAWING 16X24 IN. / 50X60 CM.
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