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MEIR sALOMON
Lives and works in tel-aviv, israel and amstelveen, Holland
 www.meir-salomon.ybay1.co.il
artist contact
 meirsalomon@gmail.com
Meir Salomon’s corpus of works on paper of water and fire is a world shapes – circle, parallels, and lines forming a triangle. Salomon begin to
apart from most part of his creation. It seems that in this series of work on a series with fire as the draftsman. Salomon inscribes scorched
works the protruding principle is that of the investigative artist, the outlines on a white virgin paper. He scorches lines, circles, shapes with
architect, the one who wishes to establish a unique statement. Each unclear boundaries, as if they are peeping slits to what resides beyond.
and every work of art is one and only; yet, they all travel in the familiar The manifestation is random – however, a second look unfolds what
space between the two and three dimensional. In his works on paper, seems to be a personal handwriting, a rather intricate one. At times the
Salomon preeminently wishes to create an association of the pictorial scorching is deeper and seems to consume the paper entirely. Above
and sculptural, of the line and the color, of the premeditated and the the pigmented sculptured bedding, Salomon has begun to scorch and
random, of the human handwriting and that of nature. Salomon uses a create outlines with the burned fire lines. The forms created are minimal,
plain white paper, wetting it with water without a pigment, creating a and most basic geometric forms – straight lines, parallels and mostly
relief with the use of the brush. Thus, the brush and the water create circles. The water and fire works, and especially the use of water and
paper waves and a soft relief is formed. A “sculpture” is born of a earth colors, are evidently associated to Kabbalah. The manifold use
mutual collaboration between human handwriting and that of nature. of the circle shape, as much as the sensation that the works engage in
Salomon’s desire to create a sense of a true sculpture, guide him to construction and destruction - and create something new out of the
work with heavy paper. The simple waves suddenly form geometrical void - all these are associated with obvious existential issues.

2006 water anD Fire on paper 16½x12 in. / 42x30 cm.
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