Amikam Toren
Anthony Reynolds Gallery
Despite its evident relation to Conceptual art, Amikam Toren’s work eludes categorization and stubbornly refuses to be slotted with any current artistic trend. One consistent concern of Toren’s work, the relationship between object and image, is articulated here in the ambivalent status of the iconic signs, painted in acrylic on pulped cardboard, which are attached to boxes for appliances.
The signs themselves—a rendering of a glass for “fragile,” arrows indicating the right way up, numbers above two bars specifying the order of the boxes to be stacked—constitute a general vocabulary for handling