ADAM BERG "Archipelago"

The current show by Adam Berg (b. 1962, Tel Aviv), combines its imagery in drawing, video installations, sculpture and painting, as though it were a group of islands rising above the surface of the water. The three visual-conceptual axes in the works are like an allegorical journey through time: archipelago – islands, sea and land; water and wind (mind); ecology and entropy. Standing at the centre of the exhibition is the work “Entropic Islands,” 2003, a video and sculpture installation evoking a journey to stormy-entropic islands in a closed time circuit; once entering the islands, one remains entrapped inside them; the video film combines footage of a real voyage with a digital montage, and the island motif becomes a symbol for the relationship of culture, technology and the media to the spectacle of nature. The large oils shown, “Polarized Paintings,” 2005-2007, are related directly to the video images and are a kind of “slowing down in time” within the process of perceiving the single image. The drawings presented, made in the years 1986-2007, constitute a kind of “time layer” preceding the works themselves
Book "Archipelago”  published by Charta Books, Milan 2007 (ISBN 978-88-8158-640-0) - texts Adam Berg, Mordechai Omer.