The fake, the future and the finite
(A Commemoration of the Absolute in the 21st Century)
Part 2: Spiral, Tower, Donkey, Carrot
Installation, Wood, paint, string, wheels, collage and drawing
2007

Alon Levin’s (ISRL, 1975) work bears witness to an significant interest for the philosophical, economical and social
theories that underlie reality. He questions and analyses social or political systems and processes, and expresses his ideas
in room-filling installations in which wooden structures play a major role. The installation in de Appel is part of a series
of five that examines mans’ persistent attempt to instil things with meaning; man's need to order, control and name the
world around him and the metaphors and symbols he uses to effectuate this.
The tower, as in the biblical Tower of Babel or the Modernist Tatlin Tower (conceived as a communist technological
utopia) is a celebration of contemporary technology: a monumental representation of progress. The spiral bears the same
connotation, being a curve running continuously around a fixed point in the centre while constantly receding it. Though
it is just a line evolving around itself in a circular manner; an eternal pursuit of an end point that is not defined.
It is in reverse to a donkey lead by a carrot, were a well defined unattained end point is symbolized by an orange carrot.
Both though are in an eternal pursuit of an unreachable something, weather a defined one or not they represent progress,
define their own context and centre of attention while ignoring their surroundings.

Gerbrand Korevaar
De Appel