Aron Wiesenfeld
(b. 1972)Aron’s paintings depict enigmatic figures traversing desolate
environments. Both the people and the places seem familiar, yet oddly
out of place. He says “They are refugees, pilgrims, and wanderers,
trying to get to the other side of a river that is forever out of
reach. I think they are answering a call that is not consciously
understandable, but resonates somewhere inside them. It draws them to a
place they forgot that they knew about, something like a return to
Eden.” The settings of the works do not seem to depict specific places, but rather more archetypal landscapes. Of this he says, “The word I use is ‘North.’ This is a place where words fail, they freeze in the throat before they can be spoken. It is still, secret, ancient, unchanging, dark (even in the day), visceral, uncultured, unenlightened, and magical. It is the place where all myth is enacted. Yet there is also the intrusion of modernity: bridges and power lines cut through the organic natural forms. Just like the character’s own natures are subjected to manufactured notions of identity, to me these landscape elements are very metaphorical of their psychological states. It is the in-between quality of the places that appeal to me, which seem appropriate settings for the subject’s personal tragedies and rites of passage to play out.”
When asked about the open ended aspect of his images, Aron answers, “ I just want to pose interesting questions. For the answers I rely on the compulsion of the mind to create dreams and fantasies, which will be as varied as the people who see them.”
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