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Sommer Contemporary Art
Sommer Contemporary Art is a Contemporary Art gallery, owned by Irit Fine Sommer, and based on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, Israel. The gallery is considered to be among the most influential in Israel for contemporary art. It was first opened in a small space on Rothschild 64 in 1999. Since its opening the purpose of the gallery was the promotion of contemporary Israeli artists in the international art scene, as well as representing and exhibiting international artists in Israel and abroad. In November 2005 the gallery moved to a new space on Rothschild 13, in one of the historic buildings of Tel Aviv. Sommer Contemporary Art is representing such artists as Adi Nes, Yehudit Sasportas, Yael Bartana, Thomas Zipp, Greogor Hildebrandt, and Ugo Rondinone. Artists Artists shown in the gallery include: * Saâdane Afif * Darren Almond * Naama Arad * Yael Bartana * Guy Ben Ner * Tom Burr * Rineke Dijkastra * Karl Haendel * Peter Halley * Lyle Ashton Harris * Michal Helfman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sommer Contemporary Art Front Entrance
Sommer is a surname, from the German, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian languages word for the season "summer". Notable people with this name include: A–L * Alfred Sommer (born 1943), American academic * Alice Herz-Sommer (1903–2014), Czech-born Jewish pianist, oldest Holocaust survivor * António de Sommer Champalimaud (1918–2004), Portuguese banker and industrialist * Bert Sommer (1949–1990), American musician and actor * Christine Sommer (born 1970), Austrian actress * Clifford C. Sommer (1908-1993), American businessman and politician * Coleen Sommer (born 1960), American high jumper * Daniel Sommer (1850–1940), key figure in the Restoration Movement * Édouard Sommer (born 1822), French scholar * Elke Sommer (born 1940), German actress * Erik Sommer (born 1978), artist * Evrim Sommer (born 1971), German politician (The Left) * Frederick Sommer (1905–1999), artist * Gerhard Sommer (1921–2019), German Nazi officer accused of war crimes * Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Burr
Tom Burr (born 1963) is an American conceptual artist. Burr's artwork explores the relationships between, "the built environment, subjectivity, and historical persona". He is based in New York City. Life Burr was born in 1963 in New Haven, Connecticut. Burr attended the Educational Center for the Arts high school, a multi-arts program taught in part by Yale University graduate students. It is here that Burr became aware of and developed an interest in Minimal and post-Minimalist artists, including Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, Eva Hesse and Gordon Matta Clark. Burr's senior thesis work reflected these influences, by merging sculptural elements with brief poetic texts. Simultaneously, Burr’s collage based work began at this time. After graduating from high school, Burr moved to New York City in 1982 to attended figure drawing classes at the Art Students League of New York. Followed by further study, Burr attended the School of Visual Arts (SVA) from 1982 until 1986 and the Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Yaari
Sharon Yaari ( he, שרון יערי; born 1966) is an Israeli photographer. Biography Sharon Yaari is an Israeli photographer and educator, mostly known for his landscapes, made using traditional Photographic film, film photography technic. Yaari graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts, BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1994. He received Master of Philosophy from Faculty of Art Design and Technology of Derby University in 2002. Sharon Yaari teaches in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, serving as senior lecturer at the Photography Department from 1994 and senior lecturer of master's degree program from 2002. He is also a lecturer at the Art Department, Faculty of Humanities in Haifa University since 2000. Yaari's works are in following permanent public collections: Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Jewish Museum (Manhattan), The Jewish Museum, Harvard University, The Schwartz Art Collection, Boston Business School, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Ella F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paloma Varga Weisz
Paloma Varga Weisz (born 1966) is a contemporary artist living in Germany, best known for her sculptures and drawings. In 2012, six of her drawings were acquired by and exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art. She lives and works in Düsseldorf. Life Paloma Varga Weisz was trained as a woodcarver from 1987–90 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. From 1990 to 1998 she studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Tony Cragg and Gerhard Merz. Her multifaceted practice includes sculptures and installations mainly in wood and ceramics, as well as watercolors and drawings. Angela Stief, a curator at the Kunsthalle Wien Kunsthalle Wien is the city of Vienna's institution for international contemporary art and discourse with two locations, in the Museumsquartier and at Karlsplatz. Kunsthalle Wien does not have a collection of its own, but instead dedicates its c ..., has said of her work: "Paloma Varga Weisz’ sculptural oeuvre, characterized by obvious references to traditiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August 1968) is a German photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. Tillmans was the first photographer – and also the first non-British person – to be awarded the Tate annual Turner Prize. He has also been awarded the Hasselblad Award, the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal,"The RPS 2015 Awards announced" Accessed 16 September 2015 the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition's |
Efrat Shvily
Efrat Shvily ( he, אפרת שוילי, born 1955) is an Israeli artist based in Jerusalem. She has exhibited her work in the 50th Venice Biennale and the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, both in 2003. Overview Shvily has had many international solo exhibitions and has participated in group exhibition in the USA, Europe, and elsewhere. Her work, influenced by her occupation as a journalist and education in political science, has been mainly focused on Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the different aspects of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Most notable in this theme as well as Shvily's career are two series: "New Homes In Israel And The Occupied Territories" – A series of photographs documenting "Anonymous deserted buildings", Arabic houses, in occupied territories; and "Palestinian Cabinet Ministers" – A series of portraits of all the Palestinian government ministers. In recent years Shvily has been focused on video as her main artistic medium, most re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Sasnal
Wilhelm Sasnal (born December 29, 1972) is a Polish painter, photographer, poster artist, illustrator and filmmaker. Sasnal graduated in painting from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1999. He is considered one of the most prominent and internationally successful Polish contemporary artists. Early life and career Wilhelm Sasnal was born in Tarnów, Poland, in 1972. He studied architecture for two years at the Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology in Kraków, beginning in 1992, and then became a painting student at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland. While there, he helped form an artist's collective that exhibited together as the ''Ładnie Group'' until 2000. Named after the Polish word meaning "pretty" or "nice," the members made paintings of their contemporary, often banal surroundings, using a deskilled aesthetics, aesthetic that countered the style valued by their instructors. Sasnal fini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muntean And Rosenblum
Muntean/Rosenblum is a collaborative artist duo composed of Markus Muntean (born 1962 in Graz, Austria) and Adi Rosenblum (born 1962 in Haifa, Israel). They have been collaborating since 1992. Background Adi Rosenblum and Markus Muntean met each other as students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. In 1992 they sublimated their subjective singularity into a double act, into a third person: Mutean/Rosenblum. In 1995 they founded Bricks & Kicks (1995 to 1998), one of the first Artist-Run galleries in Vienna. They were professors for Contextual Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1999 to 2005 and received the nationally prestigious City of Vienna Prize for Visual Arts in 2001. Work In the compositions of their drawings, the artist couple Markus Muntean and Adi Rosenblum use methods of sampling and resampling of subjects from art history and present-day popular culture. The starting point is an intensive confrontation with the pathos formulas of art hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tal R
Tal Rosenzweig (born 1967), known as Tal R, is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. Life and work Tal R was born in Israel and moved to Denmark with his family when he was one year old. He studied at Billedskolen, Copenhagen, from 1986 to 1988 and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1994 to 2000. Tal R's painting style is described as "kolbojnik", which means "left-overs", a Hebrew word for "jack-of-all-trades." He has shown work in exhibitions including ''Bicycle Thieves'' at Beret International Gallery in Chicago, ''House of Prince'' at Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin, ''The Gallery Show'' at the Royal Academy of Art in London and ''Ars Fennica'' at Henna and Pertti Niemisto Art Foundation in Helsinki. Tal R currently teaches at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. 2019 legal action In 2019, two Faroese artists bought one of Tal R's paintings, ''Paris Chic'', and announced plans to cut it up and use pieces of the canvas as decorative faces for a line of luxury wristwatches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Martin (artist)
Chris Martin (born 1954) is an American abstract painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and the Catskills region of New York State. Early life and education Chris Martin was born in Washington, DC, in 1954. His grandmother was a landscape painter. He grew up in Washington, and works in Brooklyn, New York. He studied painting at Yale University but did not complete the course; in the 1990s he attended the School of Visual Arts and left with a degree in art therapy. He worked as an art therapist for some fifteen years. Work He makes colorful, abstract painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...s, often with elements of collage and text. His work is casualist, and employs various media. He considers it to be influenced by the Catskill Mountains, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michal Helfman
Michal Helfman ( he, מיכל הלפמן; born 1973 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli artist living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is a multidisciplinary artist working in various disciplines including sculpture, architecture, video and drawings. In order to demonstrate the relations between the reviled and the hidden forces working within society and culture, she has developed an installation platform based on the back-stage front-stage structure of the theatrical stage as one, which brings together simultaneously both the real and the symbolic. Helfman exhibited in numerous international exhibitions, including the 50th Biennale di Venezia, San Francisco's Institute of Visual Art, Fondazione Sandretto in Torino and the Institute of Visual Arts in the University of Wisconsin. She is currently a faculty member at the BFA and MFA programs of Bezalel Academy. Career ''Tiesto'' (2000) was an exhibition shown in Sommer Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv. The show was named for a Dutch DJ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyle Ashton Harris
Lyle Ashton Harris (born February 6, 1965) is an American artist who has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photographic media, collage, installation art and performance art. Harris uses his works to comment on societal constructs of sexuality and race, while exploring his own identity as a queer, black man. Early life Born in the Bronx, Harris was mostly raised by his chemistry professor mother Rudean after she divorced Harris's father, between New York City and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Harris has expressed the impact of the absence of his father as a large impact on his personal and emotional development, which would later be shown through some of his pieces, including his collaborations with his brother, Thomas Allen Harris. While in Dar Es Salaam, Harris and his brother were sent to an English-speaking Swahili school. Harris believed it was important to his development as both an artist and a black man to live in a country in which black people were in posit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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