With One Eye Closed | The Wisdom produces Beauty

Uzi Zur, haaretz, May 10, 2023

A visit to Barak Ravitz’s new exhibition ‘Curtain Call’ at Dvir Gallery

 

The first thought that occurred to me when I stood in the middle of Barak Ravitz's exhibition was that it was reason that gave birth to all this beauty, reason intertwined with his fertile imagination, and the ability to summarize the idea of the work in a concentrated, decisive, and finished manner – yet still shrouded in mystery. To some extent, the exhibition is an incubator, an energetic environment where the initial idea still circulates in space, around and between the various works. It is an ascetic and lean work, but at the same time it also contains remnants of Rococo wealth, and as the name of the exhibition "Curtain Call" suggests, it also has a theatrical element, which is expressed extrovertly in the "Sunset" series.