The exhibition “Match Point”, was a visual, intergenerational encounter between two artists: Roey Heifetz and Aviva Uri.
Roey Heifetz, was born in Jerusalem in 1978. He is a young artist who lives and works in Tel-Aviv. His monumental drawings of pencil & graphite on paper, combined with various industrial materials, allegedly aim to re- create an inner world of fictional, distorted, grotesque figures.
However, a deeper observation reveals that every small fragment of the large-scale drawing is a microcosm of lines and forms, a formalistic investigation of the abstraction and deconstruction of the figure.
Aviva Uri, was born in Tzfat in 1927 and passed away in 1989. She emerged in the Israeli art scene during the early 50's and due to her art work and her unique public persona, she became a living legend. The 'poverty' of her materials and her authentic style, became the stepping- stone for the local art scene during the 70's and onwards.
The encounter between Uri and Heifetz is an outcome of a prolonged dialogue with Heifetz, who sees Uri as an inspirational character, who deeply affected his artistic process. His work, seemingly portrays strength and fortitude, but on the other hand can be viewed as fragile and vulnerable. Heifetz's monumental, figurative, hectic drawings opposite to Uri's emotional work- reveal a similar concern; their investigation of forms, of low-tech materials, the unmediated expression of their inner world.
Curator: Dina Yakeron