Emil Singer-Fuer

New Klezmer CD is out from ARC Music. graphic design by Emil.

http://www.arcmusic.co.uk/shop/thedevilsbridesklezmeryiddishsongsyalestromhotpstromi-p-1002.html

works on paper – 1st International mail Art Exhibition in Malaysia

http://works-on-paper-a4.blogspot.com/2011/05/works-on-paper.html

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Zion Box is a drawer full of with tiny things, photographs, souvenirs and memories.

The Zion Box is about the remembrance, about the souveniers around us, which wake memories of the past, accompanies us through the times in the present as well as in the future.

The exhibition Zion Box commemorates miracle deliverances and survivals of the Jewish community and also individual stories in the course of time, like the Pesach or the Soa.

Most of the Jewish festivals are celebrating the Jewish survival over oppression, the Purim is one of them.

Purim is a great miracle, and a very special holiday, a time of prizes, noisemakers, costumes and treats.

Emil Fuer created his special boxes, drawings, guache paintings and sculptures by the festival of Purim.

He brings the Purim’s spirit in his peculiar point of view with his usual irony and humour. He puts familiar things, figures and ideas into a surprising, atypical context and individually reinterprets them. The works initiate a mental game with their viewers, encourage to find hidden connections and personal interpretation.

With the Zion Boxes he links together past and present with evoking the spirituality of the Eastern and Middle European Jewish culture and the spirit of the Stetl. Old photographs, lace, musical machines, gadgets, tiny charming figures, knick-knacks and accessories evoke the atmosphere of bygone days, individual stories of unknown people who could have been even our grandparents, relatives, acquaintances. Sensitively composed requisites of memory and remembrance, where near and far, familiar and unfamiliar present at the same time.

The extraordinary, grotesque mezuzot and other sculptures refer to the custom of masquerade in costume, and the wearing of masks, which alludes to hidden aspect of the miracle of Purim. Just like the guache paintings and drawings, which call up the Purim Spiel, a historical stage play that also attempted to convey the saga of the Purim story, but in some parts of Eastern Europe, the Purim plays had evolved into broad-ranging satires with music and dance will bring cheer and comic relief to an audience celebrating the day.

Emil’s works always highly seasoned with humour, no little self-irony and grotesqueness, which helps to overcome on obstacles and difficulties of life. Despite its deeper meanings, his artworks primarily represent and celebrate the joy of life and will to live, thus proclaims the Purim’s cheerful atmosphere.

Victoria Rosenstein, art historian

[´iŋglənd iz ə ´gri:n kʌntri ] England is a green country

England and London is a green and changeable, but particularly colourful country. London’s places made deep impression on Emil with their vibrant atmosphere. The paintings of this exhibitions is a series of paintings which represents his individual experiences of London. He represents typical English things, figures and events through his special point of view.  He is able to touch tiny details of the places, people and events, notices extraordinary phenomena or just very common things, such as the groceries on the high road of Wood Green or the particularly big number of buggies in the area where he lives. This place is Muswell Hill, where Ben Wilson the unique artist prepares his tiny masterpieces on the pavement, or where the bus 102 passes through which bus links Muswell Hill with Golders Green…Broaden the horizon he also represents on his paintings the guardians of the Buckingham Palace or cricket players or a moment of a lovely English afternoon tea.

Emil is a Jewish artist, thereby the Golders Green area plays major role of his life and artworks. Jewish characters and personalities appear on his colourful guache paintings. Sometimes he pronouncedly puts the location of the scene to Golders Green but at the same time he also puts striking characters into the Jewish milieu. For example the Scottish bagpiper is a surprising figure on the edge of the painting, like he would have been accidentally dropped there…Surprising twists and paradox associations are often occurs on Emil’s paintings. Humoristic funny tricks and ironical vision is one of the main characteristics of his artworks. He likes to highlight conspicuous figures, weird or sometimes grotesque situations. He always presents the depicted situations with irony and sour humour. His characters look like cartoon figures and his paintings like pieces of a comic for adults… These joyful paintings can be considered as an individual visual diary from the pen and brush of Emil Fuer…

Viktoria Rosenstein art historian