LEFT RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT Art Exhibition at WORKSHOP Gallery

Exhibition

While looking at something, You’ll never keep your head steady. Your eyes move with a frequency of fifty times per second. Because of this vibrating, an aura is created around the object you’re looking at. But in order to see, you don’t just use your eyes; it’s your brain that does the work. It registers the image that strikes your retina, analyses this image and connects it to an experience.

My work begins with ‘seeing’ the world around me, instinctively and almost carefree. In this process my work gets its own coherence, independent of existing rules, laws and forms.

In my studio I translate these experiences and the information from my environment into 'images'.

Often I discover only afterwards the historical context and the traditions my work is connected to.

Another aspect of my work is reacting directly to what I see in my environment, this means that some of my work only exists as a registration of what happened. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context.

I create work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found.

Infinite Colours, 2011 is a registration of a performance in which I cycled a trail in the figure of 8 for eight hours. The movement of the bicycle is being recorded as the wheels ride over piles of pigment lying on the trail. Gradually the pigments merge and a wonderful world of dazzling colors is realized. Infinite Colours represents all the elements that characterizes my work: the performative character of it, his focus on the principles of perception, the flexibility, the intuitive way of thinking and working, and the unorthodox use of materials and elements from the everyday environment.

My work evolves around themes like movement, light and infinity. Recurring items are geometrical shapes, rhythm, construction and color. Important to me is that my work is logic, straightforward and monumental. It contains a simplicity and a lightness that stands out.

Chaim van Luit

WORKSHOP Gallery

01-494 331 ext 203

www.workshop-gallery.com

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WHAT WE DO

Our practices range from brand creation, to visual identity design, brochures, posters, packaging, stands, signage, graphic decoration, communications, above & below the line campaigns, marketing strategy, online and ambient media buying, copyrighting, creative copy and design consultancy. We also design and develop websites and interactive solutions, advanced UX, Apps, animation and game design. We specialize as well in Illustration and character creation.

ABOUT WONDEREIGHT

We are a Beirut based design agency, working for international and local companies who like to challenge their customers and want to be different and daring. Benefiting from our cultural diversity, we innovate in the fields of branding and visual communication. Our strategic location in the gate of the Middle East allows us to bridge between western and eastern brands and to create concepts that work in their environment while introducing new ways of co-creation.

Founded in 1999 by Nasrala brothers Boudy and Walid, today, with Karim Abourizk also on board it gathers a handful of highly skilled creative designers, web developers and marketing strategists who enjoy a bespoke work environment, made to inspire and interact with the local design and art community. This creative space regroups a design agency, a prototyping workshop a facility for trainings and talks, a handpicked book library and an art exhibition space.

This multifaceted environment keeps on renewing itself and creates a constant synergy between us, our clients, and the public.

E/ROOM - TALKS AND TRAINING

A facility where we give talks and trainings to visitors, covering subjects from our work experience. It also hosts guest speakers and tutors, with access to all the building’s facilities.

The E/Room programs are open for all applicants and are constantly updated on our website.

We’re proud to say that the E/Room is the first room to use Cedarenv.com‘s Eco-Board® and is mostly built from recycled and recuperated material (42 eco-boards equivalent to 153,972 supermarket plastic bags). The roof also collects rainwater in tanks, with which we water our garden.

WORKSHOP GALLERY

Workshop gallery is a new independent exhibition space for contemporary art, hosted within our premises to complete the building’s gestalt.

From its modest 14.3 sqm, it puts the emergent Lebanese and international artists under the spot light, in a mission to encourage the diversity and experimentation of art in the region.

PROTOTYPING WORKSHOP

An experimental lab where we design and prototype objects, prints and accessories we're inspired to create. It’s equipped with tools and machinery to handcraft and realize our ideas from sketches to prototypes, whereas the bigger pieces are produced in neighboring workshops of the industrial city we’re located in; a perfect harmony between our design company and its surrounding environment.

THE LIBRARY

Our workshop also includes a handpicked library of the books that inspire us. It is open to the public for rental and is constantly updated. These books cover design as well as photography, architecture, marketing and more.

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WORKSHOP Gallery

Jisr El Bacha, Lebanon