Yuval Orly

(Oil on Sculptured Canvas)

In the beginning of 2002 Yuval Orly began an artistic research which tried to diagnose the relationship between sculpturing and painting, also questioning the necessity of colors and the importance of composition in general.

Orly was fascinated by the possibility of creating a painting that creates a dialog with the world of sculpturing, yet at the same time remaining able to maintain its autonomy as a picture, oil on canvas, that meant to sculpt a composition in a square format, hanging on the wall.

The paintings are sculptured in canvas, stretched on top of different three dimension objects, creating a three dimensional picture. These compositions were carefully planned in advance. The whole process evolved through the sculpturing process with the intent to use afterwards only one color, the white color (oil), in various techniques.

The basic idea was to create a three dimensional composition, that will replace the colors and contours of traditional compositions in a painting. The shadows that are created through the objectified paintings create it’s own fluid visibility. The light in the room affects the picture in a way that the artist, who created the piece, can no longer affect it .

Occasionally and in order to slightly vary the experiment, Orly allowed himself to add to the composition a single color other than the color white, intended to maintain the neutral effect of the piece.