Catalog #38
Roee Suffrin
suffrin-art.com
Dropout
Estimated Value: 2500 USD
About the Artist:
Roee Suffrin was born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1979. During high school Studied art, music, cinema and theatre and was heavily occupied with Goth culture, nihilism, existentialism, pervious centuries and anti-media. In 1998 he entered the ‘Bezalel’ academy of art and design where he majored in fine art – the emphasis was on the borders of art & design (or art & architecture) and the nature of works was dark/gothic and emblematic. After graduating in 2002, he started exhibiting in numerous political art events, side events, participating music and art and multimedia groups. Today he is occupied in merging into more central part of the art-world, and by painting & sketching he is trying to stitch contradictory element (cultural+technical) into one integrative system.
About the Artwork:
‘Dropout’ is the word used to describe a person emitted from conformist society, mainly because of difficulties – but it is also used in ‘outside’ societies, such as punk, in the same manner - from the opposite direction; to define someone who abandoned the customary way of community for the benefit of a ‘normal’ life. The work displays this scheme of social belonging as a bidirectional root, a binary equation – a space which you can ‘drop’ into or ‘drop’ out of. Through using well known attributes – like the ‘back-patch’ punks wear with its typical content, the work tries to make a comment about the choices young people make.
