Noa Lidor. Doubting Thomas.
30/01/2012.
MUSEO ABC [MAD] 30/01-18/03/2012
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But also with thimbles, bells ... Everyday objects tell stories that go beyond the obvious. Today Monday January 30th opens at the Museum Drawing and Illustration ABC's new exhibition "Thomas the infidel" by artist Noa Lidor, won top Prize of Drawing of ABC Museum. This exhibition is a joint initiative of the center and the art fair JustMad.
Photography © Courtesy of María Latova and Museo ABC de dibujo e ilustración.
Photography © Courtesy of Caja Blanca and Artist .
Photography © "Lighthouse" courtesy by Haifa Museum of Art and artist.
Photography © Courtesy of Caja Blanca and Artist .
Noa Lidor (Israel, 1977) won the first edition of Museo ABC Drawing Prize in 2011. This prize is the result of a joint venture between the Museum and JustMad art fair, and it consists of the production and organization of an exhibition which allows visitors to explore the prize-winner’s work more fully.
The act of drawing is paramount to Lidor’s practice, not only in the creation of actual drawings on paper, but also in her sculptures and installations, which extend the act of drawing into the realm of the three dimensional, creating, for example, a drawing with thimbles embedded in the wall or with mounds of salt placed on a tabletop.
Noa Lidor´s work is characterised by its poetic and sensual utilization of unassuming materials such as paper, plaster and wax, and of everyday domestic objects, such as the furniture of a family home. Her works often employ ready-made objects, disrupting their intended use to create new narratives . The subject matter of her oeuvre is fuelled by poetry and mythological stories which transform chameleon-like, adopting cultural idiosyncrasies and blending in with the folk traditions of a variety of seemingly distanced and unrelated communities. A recurrent theme in Lidor’s work is boundaries and breakdowns in communication: some of her pieces involve musical instruments that are rendered soundless, while others employ Braille texts that become absurdly inaccessible to the blind and the seeing alike. The works on show in this exhibition embody a sense of paradox, pointing at the gap between the visual and the tactile, surface and depth, doubt and faith, and language and genuine experience.
centro de arte / dibujo / ilustración
Venue: MUSEO ABC, Calle Amaniel 29-31. 28015 MADRID.
Schedule – January 30 until March 18, 2012.
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NOA LIDOR
Noa Lidor was born in Israel, in January 1977. In 2001, she graduates with honours from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Jerusalem), after which she completes an MA in the Chelsea College of Art and Design (London, UK).
She lives and works in London, UK. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, and produced site-specific projects for the Members Room at Tate Modern (London, UK), Abbot Hall Gallery (Cumbria, UK), La Caja Blanca gallery (Palma de Mallorca, Spain), and the Haifa Museum of Art (Haifa, Israel).
She works with sculpture, drawing and installation and often draws on humble materials such as paper, salt or plaster, as well as objects usually found in domestic environments such as furnishings, feminine home accessories such as doilies and candelabras, and musical instruments, which once appropriated by the artist, loose the function they were originally designed to perform. In February 2011, Lidor received the prize jointly awarded by the Museo ABC (Madrid, Spain) and JustMad Art Fair (Madrid, Spain), for contemporary drawing.
The prize includes the commission of a site-specific show which will be presented to the public in February 2012. Lidor works with Green Cardamom gallery in the UK, and La Caja Blanca gallery in Spain.
