The Bottleneck / Arik Einstein Center

הצילומים באדיבות Arik Einstein Center

The image of artist Keith Herring, which expresses and represents the beauty, purity, joy and simplicity that babies bring with them, will become a symbol of protest at a group art exhibition: "The Bottle Neck" which deals with the Independent Bottling Law on Deposit, Recycling and the Environment.
The exhibition opens on Thursday 07.07.22 8 Tammuz 5722 at 19:00 at the Arik Einstein Community Center on Dov Hoz Street in Tel Aviv.

Orly Alon Margi, Ilan Moyal, Dor Wiesel, Doron Braunstein, Yael Ben Yashar, Mordechai Cohen, Nava Lee-Tal, Sivan Cohen, Oz Ezer, Einat Steckler, Rami Cuenca, Tami Alcon.

Curator: Ilan Moyal. Secondary Producer and Curator: Rona Moyal Plotech.

In an age where global warming is at its peak and the consequences of non-recycling are another fuel for catastrophe, the State of Israel has decided to "drop" the great responsibility of recycling the large bottles on the citizens, and the result? Bottles are thrown in the regular bins, bottles are left in bags next to the bins and bottles pollute the streets. Artists gathered for a protest exhibition and a call for the state to return to overseeing the recycling of bottles, or at least to issue a tender that would pay its owners to oversee the matter. If necessary, they will ban the issuance of bottles without taking the responsibility for recycling on the manufacturer, similar to Nespresso.
As part of the exhibition, the "burning baby" by the artist Ilan Moyal will be presented, who will also become a father this fall!
The "glowing baby" is an image of a crawling baby consisting of one line and around it 17 lines that represent the glowing rays of the sun, as the children draw in their innocence. A total of 18 lines.
The image is the brainchild of artist Keith Herring who was created in the 80s and has become a symbol of accent lines and represents the beauty, purity, joy and simplicity that babies bring with them when they are born.
Keith Herring passed away in 1990 at the age of 32 32 years ago.
"The Burning Baby" (Ilan Moyal, Digital Media, 2022) is a tribute to Herring. The image is presented upside down from the original baby, as a tortoise lying on its back with no ability to return to its previous state, against the 32 years that have passed since the artist's death and by virtue of his role as a symbol chosen to represent the "bottleneck" protest exhibition.
The 17 lines are replaced by bottles that form a kind of plastic uterus. The contour of the figure is thinner and uneven due to warming and ozone depletion. "The burning baby symbolizes all the babies of the present generation who are born into a surreal reality in which the world is infected with plastic which under the auspices of heat becomes a liquid and indestructible material that threatens the air, animals and plants and life in general on Earth!