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Israeli artist Nir Hod's upcoming exhibition Once Everything Was Much Better Even the Future opens September 11 at Paul Kasmin Gallery, featuring sculpture and painting works that tread delicately between life and death.
Image courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery.
In Hod’s series of oil paintings, I Want Always to be Remembered in Your Heart, exquisite flowers are consumed by equally exquisite flames in a haunting, paradoxical moment where beauty meets destruction. The paintings have been transformed into elegant objects available for purchase later this fall; PK SHOP has produced 500 sets of candles emblazoned with the burning blooms, which include two candles of contrasting scents to be burned together in harmony. Says Hod of the series, ”The candles represent the idea that the strongest light can exist in the darkest place,” a welcome thought on a date with such somber significance.
Once Everything Was Much Better Even the Future opens Thursday, September 11, 2014 at Paul Kasmin Gallery, 515 West 27th Street. The candles will officially launch on October 16, 2014 at the new PK SHOP located at 297 10th Avenue, across the street from the main gallery space, with an event from 6 to 8 p.m.
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