Nir Aharon

Born 1974, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

The language of icons linked to the simplicity and sophistication of contemporary computerized culture, joins together in Nir Aharon’s work with words in short statements, creating a nonconformist dialog in a graphic yet intimate design, like scribbling in a notebook, juxtaposing a contemporary yet primitive appearance, linked to the art of graffiti and esthetic of ‘anyone-can-do-it’, with its sources derived from the East Village of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Aharon deals with the surface through both micro and macrocosmic polarity; his paintings combine the free expressive with the controlled, disciplined and methodic design of minute details.

Rusted Coca Cola cans crashing on a surface resembling a cybernetic space is a characteristic recycled component in Nir Aharon’s works. Also is the image of a face, designed by cut out work, vanishing from a pictorial space, which become recharged with repeated printed words as shopping-cash-life-product.

The shadow of a man multiplies itself on a surface of juxtaposed planes where both real and virtual spaces compete with each other. Choosing such icons as related to the communication and transportation systems, his art becomes a slogan/statement of mechanized alienation.

Nir Aharon Graduated Vital-Shenkar center for Design Studies.
Collective exhibitions in Chicago, Miami, New York, Tel Aviv. Lives and works in Tel Mond, Israel.

Shooting

Cash

Two cans

Two cans

Cash

Ice

Marketing