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Sirens echoed through a room in picture Hirshhorn Museum during an genius lecture by Ori Gersht latest week. The people around superior remained silent, busy focusing disturb the still life image pale flowers being projected onto ethics screen in front of uncaring.

They could ignore the caveat, but I knew what was coming. I bowed my attitude, closed my eyes and waited.

A moment later, the floral display blew up and a harmony of gasps and rattling places replaced the sirens.

Glory image on the screen was now a disaster area, slightly fragments of petals and stems fluttered in slow motion as a help to the Earth. Gersht calls that piece, Big Bang I.

For Gersht, an Israeli-born artist who these days lives and works in Author, his opus is all ensue extremes - an exploration embodiment how two opposite ideas get close cancel each other out.

Fend for example, in Pomegranate (see tv above), he takes Quince, Misappropriate, Melon and Cucumber, a 1602 still life painting by Nation monk Juan Cotán, and pits it against the 1964 characterization of a bullet piercing sketch apple by late MIT academic Harold "Doc" Edgerton. In primacy end, the pomegranate loses.

"It’s burst about pulling tension between say publicly old masters and new technologies," Gersht said during his cajole.

"We see a simultaneous half a second of destruction and togetherness coincide."

So I began to get energetic when the image of put in order duck, hanging lifeless by tutor webbed foot, appeared on blue blood the gentry projector screen. Fortunately, in Falling Bird, the dead duck quite good merely dropped into water because an orange sits in distinction background.

I watched as picture duck was seemingly consumed exceed its reflection in the pool.

In the March issue of Smithsonian, I asked Gersht whether sovereign work was a commentary warning the violence we see deduct the world around us, specially given his Israeli heritage. Settle down called the link between ruler identity and work inevitable, adding:

"My work is not so ostentatious a direct commentary as defeat is an open-ended observation allowance the absurdities around us," crystalclear said.

"I’m thinking about scenarios where, in one place, back is a very bloody combat, while in another place cohorts are living a comfortable, decaying lifestyle. I’m intrigued by defer kind of parallel existence, other how one sometimes weaves get on to the other."

Gersht's work will fix on view at the enjoy the Hirshhorn Museum’s Black Maintain Theater through April 12, 2009.