“The God of Small Details”
A catalogue essay for the exhibition OverCraft:
Obsession, Decoration and Biting Beauty
The Art Gallery, Haifa University, Israel
November 2003 – January 2004
Catalogue (designed by Atara Eitan): 56 pages, 15 artist texts, color plates, additional essay by Talya Halkin (“On Ornament, Femininity, and Modernity”)
OverCraft presented 15 Israeli female-artists who distinctively use an obsessive and decorative visual language in order to reveal various aspects of feminist-oriented issues. They bring to center stage that which has been pushed to the lowly margins of kitsch and decoration and has belonged exclusively to the world of women. Through empowerment, pleasure, and defiance they elevate what was in the past thought of as an “aesthetic crime” and give it new meaning and content.
“The God of Small Details”
A catalogue essay for the exhibition OverCraft:
Obsession, Decoration and Biting Beauty
The Art Gallery, Haifa University, Israel
November 2003 – January 2004
Catalogue (designed by Atara Eitan): 56 pages, 15 artist texts, color plates, additional essay by Talya Halkin (“On Ornament, Femininity, and Modernity”)
OverCraft presented 15 Israeli female-artists who distinctively use an obsessive and decorative visual language in order to reveal various aspects of feminist-oriented issues. They bring to center stage that which has been pushed to the lowly margins of kitsch and decoration and has belonged exclusively to the world of women. Through empowerment, pleasure, and defiance they elevate what was in the past thought of as an “aesthetic crime” and give it new meaning and content.
