Joining the other 4 rooms in the ongoing “The Room is On Fire” project at Artplus Hotel is room 401 with artwork by Nivi Alroy. All the pieces in Alroy’s work are made out of wood and the images were carved into the wood with small knives.  In addition, all the images in the artwork are architecture buildings surrounding the hotel. Each piece of wood is that of small continents and islands representing that at one time the whole world was connected but then split apart to create these separate areas.  In her artwork Alroy is expressing the problem between the center and the peripheral areas.  It is a utopian piece...

  Another one of the rooms included in the ongoing “The Room is on Fire” project at Artplus Hotel is the piece ‘untitled’ in room 201 by artist Elad Kopler. A strip made of pink synthetic fur on the wall leads those entering the room to the artwork.  Mixing humor into this piece he uses the pink fur to create the form of a television set as the center of the art piece, which leads the viewers imagination to the world of children’s play rooms. A wall drawing that grows hair creates the artwork to be a three dimensional structural – sculpture shape enveloping the walls and ceiling. Kopler personifies the...

  In this guest room, icluded in the ongoing project “The Room is on Fire” at Artplus Hotel, the work of artist  Yochai Matos is featured. The peice entitled ‘‘simple messages’ is a sculptural light installation  in the shapre of a heart and is made from some twenty neon tubes. Today the heart is a graphic sign which has become cliché, a brand name an icon. But by introducing it as a work of art Matos explores the meaning of its power in order to invoke diverse responses from the audience. In the hotel room, a space that is both public and intimate, the piece is mounted over the double bed as a bed is identified...

  Part of “The Room is on Fire” project at Artplus Hotel Tel Aviv, room 310 contains an art peice by artist Yonatan Herschfeild. The idea being expressed in this fresco painting “Isabelle”  is that of  Sinner/Saint. In the painting, which hangs from the ceiling of the room,  you will see the figure of  the Holy Maria going up to heaven, yet you can also images of dogs and that of another woman, Isabelle.  It is stated in the bible that Isabelle was thrown to the dogs because of  her religious beliefs and was thus cast as a sinner. The artist is also expressing his beliefs of the tense relationship between...