Ariel Mioduser

Ariel Mioduser's work process emanates from the basic unit, the raw material of the digital visual language - the pixel.

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The basic black pixel accumulates into a black and white drawing. White is due to the light on the screen, while black is due to it being turned off. Therefore, in a sense, Mioduser paints with darkness. Although most of Mioduser's digital paintings are black and white, they are very dense, and give a sense of textural clutter and rich 'color'.

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Mioduser's work can be interpreted according to the well-known saying of Marshall McLuhan 'The media is the message'. The pixel - which is supposedly lost within the painting, plays a main role and is used both as a raw material and as a central theme in itself.

Mioduser's themes focus on capitalism, poverty and the culture of poverty, globalization and the environment. He looks around him from a critical approach to a world where visual images serve manipulative purposes (advertising and branding for example), and paints surrealistic, distorted and exaggerated environments and situations. His work stems from very personal experiences and reflections on our existence in today's digital and technological world. Oddly enough - even though digital language is considered cold, alienated and disconnected - in his work it is highly expressive, and intimately connected to his daily, personal and human experience.

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In contrast to the technological features we attribute to the digital world, Mioduser attests to himself and his work: "I am a hard-working artist. I create a load. ... I work on every pixel in a painting and then magnify it so that it and its qualities get noticed."

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The sound - for Mioduser, is an integral part of the art piece, and is based on the breakdown of sound into the "pixels of sound". The sound and the animation complement each other: sometimes it is not clear whether the sound accompanies the animation or whether the animation accompanies the sound. The sound in his works is largely based on the human voice, electronic tools and digital manipulations.

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Ariel Mioduser has been active for many years, and his areas of action include painting, video art, animation, sound art and music. This pop up exhibition features a number of animated films he has created, as well as frames sampled from them - which stand as works in their own right. His animated works have been exhibited at many festivals and exhibitions in Israel and around the world, and this exhibition is a kind of interim summary that allows a further look at this extraordinary body of work.

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Ariel Mioduser was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and lives in Jaffa, Israel. Mioduser has a B.A. from the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and a M.A. from the University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain. In parallel with several decades of commercial work, Ariel Mioduser works on personal animated films, a work that lies on the border between animation, sound and art.