No overloadAs an experienced architect, Ami Shinar has a vested aesthetic interest in all kinds of structures, particularly urban shapes and forms.This will come through loud and clear in his new exhibition, “Maximum Permitted Load,” which opens at the Zearchitecture Gallery in Hangar 21 at Tel Aviv Port on May 31.The show comprises Shinar paintings of deconstructed and reconstructed urban landscapes, including abandoned industrial buildings, grain elevators and building cranes. The works are all presented in an unusually long and narrow space, designed to convey the idea of only portraying a part of the thematic scene and based on the middle stylistic ground somewhere between figurative and abstract art. Some of the paintings, such as the pictures of cranes at Haifa Port, imbue the man-made structures with humanlike properties.“Maximum Permitted Load” will run until June 16.
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