Untitled (Burnt Canvas) merges the two major themes and source of inspiration of Ariel Schlesinger. The first, a continuous metaphor for love and relationship as can be seen in his earlier pieces like ‘L’Angoisse de la Page Blanche’, a set of two papers dancing, at times touching each other and at times alone and ‘Me and Nathalie’, two carved sculptures made to look like bent pencils endlessly next to one another. And the second, creation through destruction and more specifically through fire. This series was initiated by Untitled (Burnt Carpet), from which the inspiration came from an image Ariel saw of the Pergamon Museum who was bombarded during the Second World War. Among the artifacts who caught fire where this rolled tapestries, and when unrolled, they were marked by this Rorschach’s pattern charged with history. The two things are presented in this body of work; the canvases are forever burning each other and at the same time holding one another, thus creating an endless dance of pain and love.

Ariel Schlesinger have had numerous exhibitions in international institutions such as The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK; Centre d’Innovation et de Design, Grand Hornu, Hornu, Belgium; Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany; Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, México DF; Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel; LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, DE; CCA, Tel Aviv, IL; Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland; The Museum of the Montbeliard Castle, France; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany.