I Can See the Music

 

For Anat Salomon, a multidisciplinary artist, art is a way of life—a space for investigation and for self-expression. “I love to create, particularly through sketching and photography. Movement, thought, a show of the senses and physicality are significant in my works, and they take expression and appear through rhythm, lines, mass, and composition.”

 

The line—that inherent element in art that hints at motion, direction, and energy—plays a central role in Anat’s creations. Anat notes as a source of inspiration the artists Aviva Uri, Raffi Lavie, and Zsivi Geva. Her works are characterized by a multiplicity of shapes and a motive that appears consistently; a thin/thick line, a winding line, be it expressive or simplistic, a simple, primitive line alongside a line that represents infinite motion, a straight, angled, or refracted line, a flowing line that hesitates and changes direction, a line of many meanings, reminiscent of nature and the diversity of phenomena within it.

 

The sketches that were selected to represent Anat in the Biennale focus on the act of sketching. They involve elements of space and inner motion, alongside the presence of the body; in the artists’ words: “the basis for me is sketching.”

 

The sketches are reminiscent of “automatic drawing” as the result of the sub-conscious, absent any initial sketch or idea of any sort, based on the act of spontaneous and free scrawling of the hand. Through this work process that enables Anat to precede thought with sketching, hidden symbols arise—stains that are similar to biomorphic shapes, signs of the existence of figures or motifs from the plan world. Yet her sketches also reveal a compositional and aesthetic balance.

 

Ziva Koort

Art and Collections Researcher