has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
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About me
itzik levenstein (itzik)
Artist Statement
Working with iron for me is a dialogue, which raises to the surface, on one hand, content, forms, textures and themes, that were hidden and embodied in the material, and on the other hand the joy of creation and wealth of ideas of my inner world.
The interaction between them creates them anew, tangled together.
Iron, usually perceived as industrial, cold and gloomy, for me, has a life of its own, with much tenderness, strength, dynamism, warmth, and even humor, which
I try to expose and get into practice.
The process of "giving birth" to works ranging in scale between figurative and abstract, and deal with a wide range of topics, shapes and textures, occurs, while experiencing, self-study and personal research both the endless possibilities of the material, and my abilities using a variety of techniques, including blacksmithing, flame cutting, welding, sawing, grinding, polishing and more.
All my works preserve the natural color of iron and only a thin layer of transparent covering is applied to protect against oxidation
