Moon, detail of video still, 2007

Untitled, 2012, digital C Print, dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist; Gavin Brown’s enterprise, NY; Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin

The Donut Gang, video still 2009

Untitled, 2012
Color pencil, chalkboard paint and inkjet print on paper
Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

photo: URI ARAN

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Goodnight Ned, 2011
Graphite, pen, ink jet print and spray paint, on archival paper
Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise

Curiouser and Curiouser: Uri Aran at Gavin Brown’s, 2012

Untitled, cereal box, sheet metal, polyurethane, wood stain, glue & chocolate, 2006-2012

Untitled, detail from “by foot, by car, by bus”, 2012, mixed media
Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

Dogs and Cats, 2008, coconut, cup and saucer, trim, acrylic

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Untitled, 2010, computer drawing-ink jet print on paper

Untitled (Horse Drawing), 2010, courtesy of Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Mother’s Tankstation

Untitled, 2010, book, glass, pencil eraser, and cookies

Untitled Drawing (for The Ascent of Man), 2009, computer drawing and mixed media on paper

Untitled (Bus), 2008 (detail), mixed media, dimensions variable

Untitled Drawing (for The Ascent of Man), 2009, computer drawing and inkjet on paper

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installation views at Kunsthalle Zürich
images © Stefan Altenburger Photography Zurich, 2013

Untitled, 2010, Inkjet print and pencil on paper

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I mean orange, installation views at Studiolo, June – July 2012
in collaboration with ELIZABETH NEEL

all images courtesy the artist

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Born in Israel and based in New York, URI ARAN works in different mediums, such as sculpture, drawing, and video, to investigate the relationship between particular material forms and narratives.

His installations often feature seemingly chaotic arrangements of found objects installed on tabletops. Appropriated images and familiar everyday objects – including, for example, eggs, bottle openers, passport photos, sawdust, Swiss army knives, cookies and pizza boxes – are humble objects that find their way into ARAN’s work: things that are part of a language of our shared experience of the world.

However absurd and surreal situations take place at a regular pace; collections of images, portraits next to animal pictures, plastic grapes, pizza boxes and wet cardboards, revealing that eventually the initial chaos is ordered into a multitude of meanings.

Good news: Kunsthalle Zürich is currently presenting here, here and here, the first comprehensive solo institutional exhibition by URI ARAN. The exhibition is on view until March 24, 2013.