Dodi Reifenberg
The art of Dodi Reifenberg takes its starting point from one of the most banal materials of consumption, namely the simple throwaway plastic bag.
Reifenberg's images, reliefs and sculptures are born of a form of active recycling and adaptation, but a recycling that cuts to the very heart of society's wasteful excess. Without any moralising on the part of the artist Reifenberg, that that has the least of values has been knowingly elevated into the different genres through which fine art presents itself – the portrait, the relief (or wall hanging) and sculpture. The effect is humorous and at the same time the most ephemeral of materials are made strangely substantial – intended detritus becomes art.
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