Dialogues & Anti-logues - 2004/10

The Dialogue series, which has been a major preoccupation of mine for the last decade,
is based on a simple illusionist form of two cartoon faces in confrontation.
Its artistic expansion and development has been certainly inspired on by my studies of
the teachings of the noted philosopher, Martin Buber (the famous I-Thou  /  I-It paradigm)
and its application in modern Gestalt psychology. The I-Thou Dialogues show two faces
in harmony and balance, while in the I-It paintings (which I call Anti-logues), the second face
is diminished or non-existent.
Another important influence stems from my studies of the kabbalah, which deals at length
with the “changing faces” of the cherub statues on the Ark of the Covenant
and their esoteric ramifications.
Several of the dialogues can fit the context of the Seven Deadly Sins
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INFORMATION IN HEBREW

Dialogue #3 - Tenderness
 
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Dialogue #4 - Pathos
 
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Dialogue #5 - Sympathy
 
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Dialogue #6 - Transcendental
 
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Dialogue (Anti-logue) #7 - Envy
 
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Dialogue #8 - Love
 
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Dialogue #9 - Unfathomable
 
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Dialogue (Anti-logue)  #11 - Greed
 
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The I – IT paradigm.
Exploiting & sucking the life force of the other.

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Dialogue (Anti-logue)  #12 - Anger
 
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Dialogue (Anti-logue)  #13 - Pride
 
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Dialogue (Anti-logue)  #14 - Gluttony
 
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The I – IT paradigm.
Here the “other” doesn’t exist at all –
only me, me, me and my tummy

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Dialogue (Anti-logue) #16 - Sloth
  
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Dialogue #17 - Harmony
 
Harmony

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Dialogue #18 - Birthing
 
Birthing


Birthing can be considered the primal example
of the I – THOU dialogue paradigm.

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Dialogue #19 - Memory
 
Memory

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Dialogue #20 - Inside the Brain
 
Brain


The EEG battle between the good
and evil inclinations in one’s head.

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Dialogue #22 - See-Saw
 
See-Saw

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Dialogue #23 - Schizo
 
Schizo

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Antilogue #24 - Paranoia
 
Paranoia

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Biting the hand that feeds you





Antilogue #25 - Eating Each Other Alive
 
Eating

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Antilogue #26 - Vortex
 
Vortex

Hold my hand as we drown together into
the Black Hole of Oblivion

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Dialogue #27 - Marriage
 
Marriage

Portrait of the Artist and his Wife

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Dialogue #28 - Mystery
 
Mystery

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Antilogue #29 - The Snake and Eve
 
Eve & the Snake

The snake as Adam's alter ego

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Dialogue #30 - Amoebic Love
 
Amoebic Love

Let's ooze together like we did last summer.

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Dialogue #31 - A Slip of the Tongue
 
Slip of the Tongue

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Dialogue #32 - Protection
 
Protection

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The last two works (and perhaps others as well)
can be combined together as a variable diptych
or what I call a Dialogue between Dialogues.


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Dialogue #33 - The Shechina
 
Schenina

The three partners in a marriage:
the man, his wife and the Shechina
(the indwelling of the divine spirit)

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Antilogue #34 - Pasha
 

Pasha

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Dialogue #35 - Love in Outer Space
 
Outer Space

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Dialogue #36 - Keep Your Guard Up
 
Guard Up

A defence mechanism borrowing from Picasso's minotaur.

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Antilogue # 37 - Getting Visceral

 
Visceral

A Slice of Life

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Dialogue # 38 - Searching for the Light

 
  Light


Searching for the candle of illumination,
obscured by the hatching net of
 "Skin of the Serpent", a kabbalistic
metaphor for our mundane "reality"

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Dialogue # 39 - Mother-Daughter Argument

 
Shout

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Dialogue # 40 - The Eye of Providence

 
Eye

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Dialogue # 41- Riding the Waves
 
Waves

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10 1/2" x 16" (27 x 40 cm)





Dialogue #43 - Aged Couple

screaming

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 Dialogue #44 - There is a Dog Between Us

dogstar

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Dialogue #45 - Apparition

apparition

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 Dialogue #46 - Between Two Fish Heads (and their Eaters) on Rosh Hashanah

fish head

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It is a custom to eat fish heads on Rosh Hashanah that
we may be symbolically on the head side of reality and not the tail end.




Poster on the Dialogues

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Invitation to Recent Gallery Exhibition in Manhattan
 
Invitation - front view





 
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