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UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / NEW YORK, NY
November 19-December 17, 2016Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 W. 20th Street, 9th Floor | New York, NY 10011
(212) 243-3822 | http://www.jonathanlevinegallery.comARON WIESENFELDUnwind the winding path
T
he Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
once wrote, “Education is not the filling of a
pail, but the lighting of a fire.” The word “education”
derives from the Latin word meaning “to draw out”
or “to lead out,” implying that knowledge exists
and, in the case of Yeats, is the fuel for fire. Yeats
was drawn to the mystical and that interest occurs
throughout his work.
An exhibition of Aron Wiesenfeld’s latest drawings
and paintings at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New
York draws upon a Yeats poem for its title. Unwind
the Winding Path opens November 19 and continues
through December 17.
“In his poem Byzantium,” Wiesenfeld explains,
“Yeats goes on a journey, starting in a physical,
material place, and ending in a spiritual place.
That’s the greatest thing any artwork can do. I take
the quote ‘Unwind the Winding Path’ to refer to
finding personal meaning in the progression from
the physical to the spiritual, unwinding the chaos of
a meaningless environment.”
Wiesenfeld’s work is personal in its conception and
resolution. He encourages the viewer to go beyond1
Picnic (diptych), charcoal
on paper, 25 x 40"2
Offering, charcoal on
paper, 38 x 50"3
Bunker, oil on canvas,
32½ x 44½"4
Canoe, oil on canvas,
23 x 42"
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