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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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