Shlomo Harush

Born in Jerusalem in 1961, Shlomo Harush studied Middle Eastern history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Photography at Hadassa Community College in Jerusalem (1987-1990). After living and working in Milan from 1990 to 1997, Harush moved to New York City in 1998 where he has worked since in a studio in Brooklyn, creating multiple disciplined art: sculptures, photography, installations, paintings, and mixed media.

Harush’s main focus in recent years has been the metamorphosis of forms and materials, achieving intriguing interrelations between art and industry while constantly challenging boundaries. Exploring with industrial materials, including aluminum, bronze and steel, he blends everyday subjects and objects into his work, while manipulating them in order to turn away from the archetypal towards new and unexpected emblems.

For Harush, art is the manifestation of freedom: not only is it a vehicle for communicating his vision of the world, but the great physicality required to create his work allows for an immediacy and unfiltered release of the energy that shapes the work, translating the material into the concept and vice versa.
By actually letting the material lead rather than dominating it, Harush coaxes it into harmonizing with the world of ideas, transferring the drawing to the three-dimensional environment. The transformative moment when the drawing changes into sculpture, and the sculpture into a drawing again, passing from one dimension to another, is made possible by the light and shadow that, when merged with the works, provide another dimension, not material, but perceivable.
It is through this ambiguity that his works are able to revel movements that comes from the duplication of the level of the image, or by the simple passage of air that gives movement to this light art.