FRAMED #78 Robyn Schulkowsky & Joey Baron / „Words of Things and Things with No Words“ Ofir Dor & Aharon Levin

MUSIC – Robyn Schulkowsky & Joey Baron

Unconstrained by standard tonal and rhythmic paradigms, the duo of master musicians Robyn Schulkowsky and Joey Baron continues to explore the precise, noisy, and beautiful.

The duo’s past 15 years have included the release of the CD “Dinosaur Dances”, a residency at Grand Central Station, NYC, ongoing work with data expert Dr. Nilam Ram, and studio lab “Playing The Archives”, close work with composer Christian Wolff, along with performances and workshops in South America, the U.S., Europe, and China.

Their latest duo CD, “Now You Hear Me”, is on the Swiss label INTAKT. Composer Christian Wolff has written a concerto for the duo + orchestra to be premiered in Glasgow, Scotland, in spring 2019.

ART EXHIBITION – „Words of Things and Things with No Words“ Ofir Dor & Aharon Levin

Two-man show, featuring poems written by Aharon Levin alongside Ofir Dor’s paintings.

Aharon Levin – “Para Militar”

Para militar, para militar

Inside the head para militar

I shoot and get shot

The woman wants me to come

also Wednesdays

Para militar, para militar

Inside my head, a machine gun

Is chasing me down

Assad throbs a stick up my ass

I weep, para militar

My mother’s open legs

the spring

my head

Kick around, son, what’s left of your dad

Ofir Dor

Human frailty and its everlasting fascination with both violence and ecstasy make up the core of this group of paintings. It starts with a story.

Its narrative builds from an index of cultural references such as past artists, music, literature, mythology, and all kinds of visual material, echoing personal experiences, dreams, or sheer imagination.

The protagonists, once thrown into the composition, are acting out at their social, psychological, and emotional levels.

Certain fluidity is maintained both in the narrative process and in the painting itself; everything might radically change at any given moment.

The painting is an act of constant balancing between its tactile, visceral, almost primal urge, and the more cultivated qualities, like contemplation, reflection, and analysis.

This musical process is to go on, layer over layer, until the painting reaches a certain level of vibrancy that can reveal the truth it holds, even as a solid object, giving it enough meaning to exist on its own.