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Friday, 15 June 2007 | Levent OZLER
Tal Gur: The Turtle Laughs at Me
 Tal Gur, a graduate of Bezalel's Department of Industrial Design, 1996, became known in the last decade as one of Israel's prominent designers in the area of plastic light fixtures and objects manufactured in the rotational molding technology. Some of the objects are produced as "home industry" in the studio at Kibbutz Gilgal in the Jordan Valley. Ever since he first embarked on his journeys to the Far East in 2000, particularly to Japan, Gur has been exploring various areas of craft in domains where design forms an integral part in a dynamic texture of life-culture.
 Gur's present in situ environment was perceived while internalizing a process he dubs "erosion of goods" ― an economic-social-political reality undergoing changes in the rules of world commerce: irregularity in the flow of supply of raw materials, the shifting of manufacturing areas to the Far East, transition from a working society to a production society, and the disappearance of no longer needed skilled craftsmen.
 The exhibition space contains several objects which reflect a laborious production process: "Reading" tables, "Alata" light fixtures, "Mesh" chairs, and a "Bamboo" partition. The objects, with their entire range of materiality, sprawl, outline their course in the space, dissolve mass, allowing a glance through― through the object, the place, the space. In accord, an original music composed by Binya Reches, a notable contemporary electronic music composer, plays in the background and grants an additional dimension to the exhibition.
Bowing encounters are woven in the exhibition into "working time". The exhibition space teems with unidentified rustles, which are put forward also via a documentary-like film. Abu Dawass, the broom maker, is seen producing one broom in a long span of time. "Abu Dawass time," akin to the time of making an object in the rotational molding technology, is perceived as meditative time, "inefficient" in economic terms. In an age in which industrialists and manufacturers strive to increase the uniformity of goods, Gur persists on producing irregularity and poetic disparity in processes of industrial production and in processes of "home" production.
Curator: Meira Yagid Haimovich
Tal Gur: http://www.dexigner.com/directory/detail/9063.html
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