Idyll Distortion Solo Exhibition
2011
Digital Art, Video Arts
Solo Exhibition At Serge Tirosch Gallery space
- Idyll Distortion ( 2011) - SOLO EXHIBITION
Gallery Text
"Refined hyperrealism, aesthetic asceticism, Multi – progressive traveling, Interactive
multi-dimensional, there is a lot to mock of " (Jean Baudrillard, America, p.48)
Ilan Yona celebrates capitalism with humor and self-awareness. His Baudrillardrian
world celebrates the social-moral distortion by deconstructing the visual narrative with
intelligent use of cinematic language. Yona creates ex nihilo, builds hyper-reality, flooded
with overused images & cinematic cliché. His fairies are mass production pieces, and refer
to the only promised fantasy they hold. His characters are an extreme replica and a byproduct
to Consumerism.
Ilan Yona’s work motivates itself out of a strong urge to work within the boundaries of
familiar genres. By appropriating the genre and twisting its rules of action Yona creates
silent sabotaging acts. He melts together the various types without considering hierarchies
of cultural and commercial, personal and social, arts and crafts. Yona creates pastiche
by combining techniques of animation, three dimensional pre-visualization, video and
photography thus creating replica clichés of the genres he manipulates. The distance
created between Yona’s work and the original source, whether iconic or taken from
readymade image banks, allows him to raise discussion that exists on the axis between
the biographical and the social.
Yona duplicates himself, changes roles and parts in his idyllic fantasy. He is the good, the
bad & the ugly in a local suburb western, a flock of fairies, an army of laborers, a useless
redneck and characters from a Japanese TV show who demonstrate the word ‘LOVE’ with
their body (taken from a new video work that is in progress). Yona investigates a world
where the distortion takes place as an exaggerated-hedonist-nihilist-capitalist party that
lacks any moral reference, an Idyll Distortion. - STILL IMAGES
"Postproduction" 3D Visualisation
C-Print 30X240 cm
"Postproduction" (DETAIL) 3D Visualisation
C-Print 30X240 cm- EXHIBITION IMAGES
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Four characters compete in a Japaneses "hole in the wall" TV game show. They try to fit into the word LOVE by stretching their bodies into extreme shapes and gestures.Exhibition Design, Video Arts, Visual Effects2011 -
A sweatshop that manufactures fairies. A redneck that sleeps on a rocking chair while fairies with male head fly above him. POV flight into a neon sign.Video Arts, Visual Arts, Visual Effects2011 -
Works from my first solo Exhibition "PSEDE PSE".
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A Person draws marks on his body in an attempt to make himself disappear. The video is a take on new age self help videos and the part they take in current capitalist societyVideo Arts2011 -
Israel Club DoorsPhotography2011
