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as two-dimensional drawings.

Walls made of simple materials such as wood, paper and foil divide the room, creating pathways and hidden corners – a landscape within the exhibition space. From each point we experience the energy between the fragile walls and their strength in changing the space. By constructing a minimalist walk-in environment Kleine negotiates the border between sculpture and architecture, art work and space. Ben-Tolila reflects Kleine’s thoughts on reduction and the transformation of impressions in large scale prints of drawings. The visual sources in Ben-Tolila`s works are actual scenes, which in a process of removal and anonymization develop into structures levitating in remnants of landscapes. The artist takes this process even a step further by presenting not the actual drawings, but rather large-scale photographic prints of the scanned drawings. Characteristic of both artists is their interest in space and remoteness. It is almost an obsession with absence visually expressed by contrasting elements such as fullness and emptiness, planning and coincidence, abstraction and realistic representation.

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