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Gil & Moti/ Duo artists

Gil (b.1968) & Moti (b.1971) were born in Israel and have lived in Rotterdam for more than ten years. They received their Master in Fine Arts at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Their work has been shown internationally a.o. in MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Eric Dupont Gallery, Paris, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest. Gil & Moti's work oversteps limits in material and formal terms. They engage various highly complex political and social topics, some of them with explosive implications, with seemingly naïve approaches in diverse artistic media. It is especially the concept of ‘artistic naïvety’ that opens completely new aspects of real problem fields. In this process, material and formal border violations or breaches of taboos play an important part, genres and media are mixed within conceptual installations, social phenomena that are seemingly independent of each other are shown in political contexts that have not been seen in this way before. Their recent paintings and etchings deal with peripheral vision, with events occurring on the fringes of a multifarious society that nowadays typifies the world in general and Israel in particular. They represent realistic and chimeric landscapes of real and imaginary places and people, which are relevant to both the individual and the universal memory. An overview exhibition will present works from ten years of their recent production and will be touring from February 2011 through five venues: Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Bochum Kunstmuseum, Bochum, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz. A comprehensive catalogue will accompany the exhibition tour, published by Hatje Cantz in February 2011. www.gilandmoti.nl