Guy Zagursky works with optical and visual illusions. His sculptures and installations invite the viewer to meditate on the infinite and its incomprehensibility, or to experience the simple beauty of a perfect circle with its illusion of endless depth.
In Guy Zagursky’s work, beauty is expressed using cool, modern materials such as concrete, neon tubes and above all reflecting glass, which tricks the viewer into a perception of infinity while throwing him back on himself. Zagursky’s works – in which mirrors function as contemporary symbols of vanitas – are cosmopolitan allegories that illuminate the battles and power struggles holding post-modern man captive like Sisyphus in his vain efforts for immortality.
The installation “Syncope” consists of two groups of works that seem to accost each other: on one wall of the studio there are eight machines, constructed by Zagursky himself, which each consist of a metal arm holding a truncheon, a perspex shield and a motor which, as soon as the viewer approaches, causes the truncheons to strike rhythmically against the shields with an ear-splitting racket. The wall opposite is occupied by eight more machines that function according to the same principle, but they are equipped with white sticks for the blind.
This means that their loud, syncopated scratching on the floor joins with the noise of the truncheons to create an almost unbearable, hectic staccato.