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Since Ronen Azulay got back from Morocco he's been diligently working in his studio on channeling some of the impactful beauty he experienced. As he evolve as an artist, he stays true to his origins, the place he comes from both physically and spiritually while continuing to push his boundaries by incorporating new elements in his work. This piece is a perfect example of using repurposed textiles and denim while bringing in found pieces of leather and recycled leather belts, these new elements are stretching his limits further than expected.
Every piece of fabric is reborn and salvaged carrying its own story before being joined with other materials. Reclaimed materials highlight a key theme in his work, movement and migration. Art mirrors a thrilling journey into an unfamiliar place with all of its complexities, trying to assimilate to a new identity or reality (while staying true to his background and roots).
Inspired by a family photo of a Moroccan wedding dress (El-Keswa El-Kbira) this piece is a work years in the making. Engraved in my mind I knew that one day I would incorporate this personal iconic image in my art. My goal was to express the multitude of feelings and memories the dress evokes for me as well a sense of respect and dignity for my heritage. This image represents Moroccan beauty and a culture rich in customs and history. Legacy captures a sense of growing-up in Israel at a time when intra-Jewish racism was escalating and my family's roots needed to be suppressed, and nearly erased for the price of assimilation. After years of living in NYC do I fully understand the importance of celebrating one's authentic heritage, Legacy helped me explore this important question.
In this series, Ronen Azulay continues to transform scraps of denim into geometric shapes, sews them together to emphasize stitches and selvedge edges — a roadmap to a reconstructed canvas. Later he manipulates the reengineered canvas with several different techniques, adding and extracting layers of color. The result is this unique composition rich in texture, shape and color.
As I evolve as an artist, I stay true to my origins, and the place I come from physically and spiritually while continuing to push my boundaries by incorporating new elements in my work. This piece is a perfect example of using repurposed textiles and denim while bringing in found pieces of leather and recycled leather belts, these new elements are stretching my limits further than expected.
Using recycled materials in his art, particularly denim, Ronen Azulay engages in a conversation around movement. While pushing boundaries as an artist he simultaneously refers to his background and personal story while no longer relying solely on conventional tools. In this body of work he adapts everyday materials, stretches and reshapes them. This allows him to explore proportion, composition and space. From this point instead of painting and adding layers of color Azulay reverses the process and extracts layers of color. By doing so a migration of color starts to form, from its original ground to endless rich shades and tones of itself. This process enables him to modify the surface and then add layers of color. This cycle conveys a philosophical and symbolic narrative about color, identity, shape, transformation and adaptation.
This art piece is the first creation after Ronen Azulay's trip to Morocco and it is directly inspired by The Leather Tanneries of Fez adding. In this artwork he's introducing new elements of found leather and repurposed leather belts which allow him to examine further more his philosophy around shape, color and depth.
Returning from his recent trip to Morocco, Ronen Azulay has been reexamining his vision regarding color. The impact on his perspective from the places he saw in the cities of Fez and Marrakesh forced him to step outside of his comfort zone. The resulting pivot has been a harmony of earthy, rich tones of flesh, browns and copper complimented with greens, blues and deep purple.
In this new piece, Ronen Azulay continues to dig into his philosophy/methods to take everyday materials, especially products of mess production, cut them, turn them inside out, sew them together, stretch, elevate them, and treat them as if they were gold. The organic shapes and earthy tones accented by metallic colors invite you to feel this energy and explore an experience of spirituality and connection for things that are above our understanding.
