Earl Lu Gallery Imprint
Selling price: $15.00
Student price: $12.00
Staff discount: $10.50
The Earl Lu Gallery is presenting to Singapore the work of Zadok Ben-David. Zadok was born in Yemen and raised in Israel. Since the early 1970s he has been dividing his time between London and Israel. Zadok is seen as one of the practitioners invovled in the resurgence of sculpture in Britain during the 70s and 80s. The work presented to us here entitled “Evolution and Theory” was first exhibited in Israel and since then Australia, Turkey, America, and now Singapore. Each time the work is exhibited it takes on the characteristic of the pace in which it is installed.
The varieties of locations around the world that have hosted the exhibition add additional layers to the understanding of the work. It will be very interesting to examine the re-actions of an Asian audience to the elements of this exhibition. This exhibition centers on the context of thought (scientific) that has only recently been adopted in Asia. There exists in the history of Asian thought a significantly separate approach to the faith in science evident in the West. Asian understandings of science ar in many ways viewed with noticeably less religious fervour than in the West. Faith in traditional belief still has currency here. We are however rapidly embracing many of the West’s concepts. It is in essence a fundamentally different approach to the analytical system accepted in the West that may have a new dynamic interpretation in the world of contemporary Asia.
Published in 1999
