Painting Outside the Box Ilan Wizgan The painting of Mirit Ben Nun avoids accepted definitions. On the one hand, an objective examination would classify it as Contemporary art since indeed it is created in the present by a young sizzling artist. On the other hand, it lacks "Contemporary" features such as those that reflect the spirit of time and place. This is painting that speaks in an alien tongue that apparently belongs to another time and place; however, when we try to come close and point to them, we find ourselves wandering in time and space without finding a foothold. Ben Nun's work is graced with powerful sensuousness and color. It has naïve characteristics and archetypes that refer to folk art relationships among various images in the same work that are not true to reality; and "erroneous," in proportions - similar to those found in native tribal art in Africa, Oceania, and Australia. The surface is laboriously worked and the motifs are replicated as in the techniques of carpet weaving. This said, it is also possible to find in many paintings Western Pop Art. This combination of primeval motifs and Western Modernism charges Ben Nun's painting with historical and cultural tension, between the then and now and the there and here. From the standpoint of form, the painting is generally divided in a schematic way, according to areas of color without intermediary transitions. Clear boundary lines separate the various areas and each area contains a different happening <b>...</b>
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