https://www.lougashi.com
https://www.instagram.com/guy.lougashi
Guy Lougashi (IL , 1976 ) is a self taught artist, a scholar with a vibrant aptitude for the studies of visual art, its media, its declinations, its meanings.
Lougashi works with paper as main media, builds three- dimensional pieces which develop between vertical space and among multi-dimensional artefacts. He starts his process by observing, investigating and tweaking the paper matter; his interest - almost scientific, experimental and always cohesive - leads his artistic practice to a multifaceted dimension according to which each and every series is created.
Lougashi preparative and investigative process re-locates the media of paper as no longer being used and perceived as part of the realisation process nor vessel of support but rather as the protagonist which enables self sufficient ecosystems and site specific installations to take form.
Ingenious in creating shapes and accumulations of elements, building vibrant textures and volumes, the artist enables his pieces as being perceived on a poetic and multilayered level, as if each one of them would be a tale in a tale.
Lougashi’s pieces suggest an intricate story which develops to and through an alternate perception of the matter and its forms.
Observing those pieces, the public is drawn to discover a sensory and ephemeral inner world, a delicate and intricate landscape of flickering particles vibrating and mirroring a sense of intimacy and at the same time of disclosure of an alternate reality.
The spaces between the elements of Lougashi’s work, the shapes of the minimal 3-D landscapes -created with meticulously cutten paper, embroidery and salt particles- are the result of his quest for a new signifier as well as the prefiguration of his inner world.
The artist continuously researches the unconventional, the organic, the plastic expressions through which his inner thinking, his delicate aesthetics, develop.
The interaction of Lougashi with the paper matter is the result of his pursuance of a physical rendering for the continuous flow that populates his creative process: by layering, sculpting, sewing, creating negative and positive spaces he produces minimal yet complex works: pieces on the brink between order and a quite, balanced and poetic disorder which are the result of the physical translation of a delicate white noise.
Lougashi’s work with paper, salt elements, volumes and light, video and environment installations, investigate the use of materials, their constructions as into bi-dimensional works and immersive installations.
Guy Lougashi’s quest about the transformation of noise, of ideas, of his drive to express his inner world brings us to dive into the view of an all embracing micro-cosmos populated by the ephemeral yet powerful visions of a liminal reality. It is a world of new signifiers where the signified is a continuous flow of an intimate account…
Chiara Valci Mazzara
.Independent Curator, Art Critic and Writer, Berlin, DE
.Resident Curator Morra Foundation, Archivio Casa Morra, Naples, IT
.International Artistic Director K.P. Gallery & Art Centre, Seoul, KR
www.chiaravalcimazzara.com
Galleries/ current shows:
Hause des Papiers - Berlin https://www.hausdespapiers.com
Gal Gaon Collection - Tel Aviv https://www.galgaoncollection.com
Pereh Hotel - gallery, Israel. https://pereh.co.il
The paper lab
world wide workshops
by Guy Lougaashi
https://lougashi.com/workshop
In my work I combine traditional techniques with new inventions from ongoing research work in the studio for the past 20 years.
I have accumulated a great deal of knowledge working with different materials that enable me to fulfill any creative ideas and visions in working with paper.
The workshops are research laboratories that allow participants to learn unique techniques in sculptural work with paper to fulfill a creative vision that I will accompany closely.
Laboratory participants will experience a wide range of areas tangent to working with paper in a variety of techniques.
The language I use in the creative process stems from looking at nature and the inspiration I see in it.
The surface, textures, and how are connections formed in nature? What is above the surface and what is hidden below? What motivates the surface? These are some of the questions I ask.
We invite you to learn about the variety of practical and online workshops we offer in the section below.
Groups/private organisation or individuals interested in our workshops are welcome to contact us.
