Yehudit Sasportas

In good condition. Some surface soiling resulting from handling towards the bottom, visible in the light blue. Some expected cracking/flaking at the where the separate segments make contact.
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For the present project, Yehudit Sasportas painted nine different mountain landscapes on large-scale wooden fans. Following a conversation with the artist, Liat Stanislavsky discusses Sasportas Fan project and comments: "The Japanese contexts of the fan project lie in the Far East... It is a domain that processes a classical formal structure of a fan in a manner that opens up a new reading, one that carries a borrowed image. The size of the fan, its mode of opening, and the relation to the image it bears generate a reversal in its reading. An object that has undergone a different cultural processing that presents itself in pale hues, deadened a-priori... In this sense, the fan proposes an open possibility of image contraction and expansion. Moreover, it allows for a reading of the fan as a space of covering, concealment or presence of a nonexistent mountain." (Liat Stanislavsky, Loushy Art & Editions, following a conversation with Yehudit Sasportas, 2002-2003).