1. Red Line Project

2. Environmental Artworks

3. AirChitecture and Air Dimensional Design

4. References

Doron Gazit ({{lang-he|דורון גזית{{lrm}}}}; b. 1953) is an Israeli environmental artist, activist and industrial designer recognized for his large-scale outdoor environmental art installations. Gazit invented his own medium of large scale inflatable structures and AirTubes.

He studied industrial design in Bezalel College in Jerusalem. During his college years, Gazit supported himself as a street balloon artist. He realized during this time, that the long, narrow, twisty were essentially a three-dimensional line; they sculpt the air, allowing the viewer to perceive otherwise invisible currents of nature. This realization inspired him to create balloons on a grander scale and develop the long AirTube. It’s also what sparked his artistic path of investigation, using the inflatable tube as a 3D line and nature as his canvas.^[1]

Gazit was the first to introduce balloons to the Bedouins, the nomadic people in the Sinai desert. The Bedouins responded to the balloons very emotionally and with laughter. This reaction was a formative event in his artistic journey. The Bedouin elders reacted to the air within the balloon, as though the balloon had its own spirit or breath and was a metaphor to us, human beings. We are all temporary on this earth.

The word “roach” has the same two meanings in Hebrew and Arabic “spirit” and “wind”. In his work of “Sculpting the Wind” Gazit has expressed that he is visualizing the Spirit of nature.

He has installed a large number of mega environmental pieces throughout the world, Alaska, Dubai. Israel, Japan, Australia, USA and more. Gazit considers these temporary mega installations literal extensions of the act of drawing “lines.” His method of intervention brings the landscape and urban environments into focus.

He is also credited as a co-inventor of the Fly Guy, the dancing inflatable which was developed for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.^[2][3]

Red Line Project

Gazit is documenting the serious ecological devastations at locations affected by climate change and man’s misuse of the environment in his temporary art installation named Red Line Project. In these bleak landscapes, the Red Line creates a haunting image and metaphor for the blood vein of Mother Nature, alerting observers to the urgent need to remedy and protect our endangered environment. The vein turns into a 3D line, while the devastated landscapes to his large scale canvas.^[4]

Gazit's Red Line Project connecting the sinkholes of the Dead Sea in Israel, with melting glaciers in Alaska, the Great Salt Lake in Utah, and the Salton Sea in California. He has planned future installations along the Amazon river, the disappearing forests of the Sumatra and Borneo, and the floating islands of garbage in the oceans.

Gazit is now getting to a new stage in his work. The Red Line is no longer just in devastated locations, but now in areas where global warming have already destroyed communities and habitats. People, who have been forced to leave behind all that they have, and start over somewhere new.

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Environmental Artworks

Between 1996 and 2016 Gazit produced interactive art installations titled “Sculpting the Wind“ and “Visualizing the Invisible” in which he conceptually visualizes a dialogue between the sun and the wind using balloons and involving the participation of many people in multiple locations. As quoted by Gazit: "The wind fills the tubes with air, imprinting its motions on the tube from inside, and guiding its way forward - creating a dialog with mother nature - a conversation with the wind, the sun and the earth beneath them." His settings are meant to reference the anthropocene – mankind’s interface with nature, technology, and industry. His large-scale environmental works have been installed in Australia, Dubai, Japan, Mexico and more.

Gazit's works are considered site specific art, and although influenced by other site specific land art pioneers such as Andy Goldsworthy, Christo or Robert Smithson, Gazit’s works differ in that they are intended to be more ephemeral and site-referential.

AirChitecture and Air Dimensional Design

Doron Gazit is the founder of Air Dimensional Design (AirDD). The company innovative inflatable designs have transformed venues across the world.

Gazit was invited to decorate nine different venues for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He used polyethylene AirTubes as temporary architecture as it was possible to not only design in the space given, but create new spaces such as tunnels and canopies with his air tubes, which Gazit calls AirChitecture.^[6][7]

References

2015 - Present - The Red Line Project, a travelling installation. Gazit installs the Red Line Project at sites devastated by global warming and human misuse of the environment. Till now Gazit drew with the Red Line in the sink holes at the Dead Sea in Israel; melting glaciers in Alaska, the Salton Sea, dry lakes and burnt forests in California. ^[8]

1990 - Present, Gazit has been creating a series of “Sculpting the Wind” and “Visualizing the Invisible” installations - large environmental projects using clear tubes, “visualizing” the wind, reflecting the sun.

2018 - Presentation at the Tel Aviv University at the Climate Change conference about the Red Line concept. Creating a ‘Burnt Tree – Red Line’ installation at the entrance. Group exhibition at the Diaghilev hotel in Tel Aviv with a artists heading toward the Biennale in Venice.^[9]

2017 TEDx Talk, Vail Colorado and article at the TED Magazine.^[10]

2017 LA Art Show, Featured Artist.

2016 San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, solo exhibit.

2016 Liz’s Loft Gallery, LA, group exhibit.

2014 Hammer Museum, Set for In C Opera by the Industry.

2014 California Arts and Folklore Museum (CAFAM), featured artist Floor 1.

2013 Super-Bowl Half Time Show with Beyonce.

2013 Jerusalem Festival of Lights, a juried art and light event.

2011 Lois Lambert Gallery, Santa Monica, group exhibit.

2010 MorYork Gallery, solo exhibit of the “Frozen Flow”.

2007 Super-Bowl Half Time Show with Prince.

2003 Pavarotti concert, Laguna Salada, Mexicali, Mexico.

2001 Dubai, Hamarain Center, ground-breaking ceremony.

2001 US patent granted for the Dancing Inflatable technology, Gazit co-inventor.

2000 Gazit’s work featured as a cover story in The Smithsonian Magazine.^[11][12]

1998 Lisbon, Portugal, World Expo.

1997 Fuji Television Building, the opening, Tokyo.

1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, debut of the Dancing Inflatables.^[13]

1995 Ismaelova Center, Moscow.

1991 The Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles.

1988 World Expo, Brisbane, Australia.

1986 The Javits Center opening, New York.^[14]

1986 The Statue of Liberty Centennial Celebrations.^[15]

1986 Air Dimensional Design Inc. in Los Angeles founded by Doron Gazit.^[16]

1984 Olympic Games, Los Angeles designed nine venues.^[17]

1983 Installations at the International Sculpture Conference, San Francisco.^[18]

1981 Israel Museum, Jerusalem – 50-foot-tall sculptures made from large-scale newly developed AirTubes.^[19]

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