Guy Zagursky

Zagursky frequently employs visual illusions and optical deceptions as artistic strategies. In contrast to other artists who make use of lighting and optics, it seems that Zagursky's interest exceeds the creation of a spectacular vision that solicits reactions of sheer amazement. This work invites the viewer to walk around the infinite well and to experience the meaningless nature of the eternal circle. Embedded within it is a profound meditation on the meaning of beauty and on its relation to the ephemeral nature of time - a meditation that also addresses the ungraspable dimension of infinity. "Due to the fact that we cannot comprehend infinity, we naturally tend to perceive fragments of time, to isolate objects and to endow them with importance," Zagursky says. "I would like to think of myself as the producer of postmodern vanitas images; to investigate the great power games that unfold in opposition to, or in relation to, one another - while man is caught in their midst, engaged in his Sisyphean struggles and his grotesque aspirations for power

and eternity."

Born in Tel Aviv, 1972; lives and works in Tel Aviv