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Ron Aloni

Engaging in a range of actions that involve cutting, bending, spreading, condensing and knotting, Ron Aloni creates gigantic pillows composed of iron wire of the kind used to produce barbed wire fences. The density of these iron nets endows them with sculptural qualities (volume, transparency, stability, opaqueness, softness and rigidity), and makes the gigantic forms appear surprisingly light - as if they were drawings in space. Despite their monumental dimensions, the charged historical and political contexts alluded to by the material and the metaphorical inversion of qualities (softness and rigidity, protection and threat), these objects have a fragile and intimate quality.  

Born in Ramat Gan, 1950; lives and works in Tel Aviv

http://www.ronaloni.com/