14.11 — 26.12.2022Tatintsian Gallery Selected

Alserkal Avenue

Group ShowRon Arad
George Condo
Mat Collishaw
Evgeny Chubarov
Peter Halley
John Miller
Jenny Holzer

Ron Arad
Pressed Flower (YELLOW), 2013

Steel, glass, leather, plastic and vinyl
250 × 370 × 20 cm

‘Fiat 500 is a national symbol for Italy and our generation, and it’s a very endearing vehicle. Everyone has stories about their first ever sex in a Fiat, or first kiss. We’re not destroying the cars, we’re immortalising them.’
— Ron Arad

Cars from this series have been flattened, by a 500-ton press in the Netherlands, to a cartoonish perfection. So objects made for motion are now still, cars built for the road now hang on a wall, their three dimensions compressed almost entirely to two.

“Pressed Flowers” series is inspired by the fear and rupture of an incident—during Arad’s childhood, his father had a severe car crash while driving a Fiat Topolino, which was made from a mix of wood and metal. The car was completely flattened yet his father survived. Arad Says: ‘I will never forget my father’s words to us: “Had my car not been made out of wood I wouldn’t be alive now”.’

Exhibitions:
Tatintsian Gallery Selected. Tatintsian Gallery, Dubai. 14 November–26 December 2022
“Ron Arad. Gary Tatintsian Gallery, 18 November 2016–1 February 2017”
Ron Arad:  “in Reverse“. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA. 12 February–14 March 2015
Ron Arad:  “in Reverse“. Pinacoteca, Turin, Italy. 20 December 2013–30 March 2014
Ron Arad:  “in Reverse“. Design Museum, Holon, Israel. 19 June–19 October 2013

Publications:
Ron Arad. Gary Tatintsian Gallery, 2017. p. 69-73, 83
“In Reverse”. Design Museum Holon, Israel, 2013. p. 47, 54-55, 57




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14.11 — 26.12.2022Tatintsian Gallery Selected

Alserkal Avenue

Group ShowRon Arad
George Condo
Mat Collishaw
Evgeny Chubarov
Peter Halley
John Miller
Jenny Holzer