Double Mars
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In Double Mars Tsuki Garbian illustrates the artistic struggle of finding a unique voice. Garbian chooses Bruce Lee as a metaphor and steps into battle against the great masters of the European painting tradition – Titian, Caravaggio, Velasquez and Rembrandt; who contributed, among others, to the creation of the contemporary accepted image of the painter (the intellectual, subversive and critical one). Garbian embraces Raffi Lavie’s (120 by 120 cm) plywood platform as a battlefield in which, for a slight moment while copying them, he even wishes to become the great masters themselves, gliding in and out of their skin all along his struggle against them; all that, in order to present his persona to us, his identity that constitutes through confrontation with others.