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By Itzik (Itzhak) Asher
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Description
Andromeda, Signed and numbered 3/7.
Technique
Bronze sculpture
Date Created
1994
Dimensions
178 x 173 x 74 cm
Literature
Yoav Dagon and I.A Hagidony (editors), Asher Sculptures, Tel Aviv 2004, color image p.103.
Condition
Good
Exhibitions
Necca Museum, Brookline, CT;
American Association of Museums Expo, Indianapolis, IN, 2005;
Monumental Sculpture Show, South Beach, Miami, FL, 1996-1997.
Biography
Itzik Asher (1946-), American artist. Asher was raised and trained as a painter and sculpture in Israel. He grew up around nature and this has greatly influenced his work.
His scultpures are expressions of his love naturalism, simplicity, gentleness and delicacy. They are in away an escape from the modern world back to ancient times of Roman chariots, animals, and elongated figures.
Asher has exhibited in Venezuela, Japan, France, Israel and the United States. Some of his earlier works can be seen in collections throughout Europe, Israel, Japan and South American.
Asher lives and works in Boca Raton and in Caesarea, an ancient Roman port city on the Mediterranean coast.
An Invitation to a Journey by Yoav Dagon - Director Guttman Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Itzik Asher ascribes a mainly autobiographical content to his series of journey sculptures. Another, equally significant facet, however, is the universal dimension whereby one can place the work in broader contexts. By using figurative, somewhat schematic human images, the artist can introduce a figure that resonates beyond a specific time and place. Its identification and facial do not define it, thus it may be located in almost any historical time. Subconsciously, these figures convey an a-temporal continuum and continuity.
The figures themselves are rooted in the ground (or in their bases), their elongated limbs enhancing the sense of growth on the one hand, and the sense of motion and temporal continuity on the other. They reflect the artist's desire to bring together the female element - the earth, and the male element - the sky or heaven, while the bird, depicted in many of the sculptures, functions as a universal messenger, mediating between the corporeal (earth) and spiritual (heavens) elements.
Throughout his artistic career Itzik Asher has gained great experience and fashioned images that have given rise to a personal language. These images indeed rely on the artist's private life story and contain many autobiographical aspects.
On a deeper level, however, his art engages in a rich and fertile dialog with a universal set of images that have been represented in different cultures and civilizations through myths that touch upon the essence of human existence. The journey is, thus, a personal quest that spans many universal quests.
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Andromeda
Estimate: $60,000/$80,000
Location: New York
Number of Bids: 13
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