Israeli artist Ido Bar-El uses nontraditional materials, for instance, painting on objects such as traffic signs, military helmets, and automobile hoods. His solo exhibitions have included shows at MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (2001) and Meilahti Art Museum, Helsinki (2003). Bar-El received the Sandberg Prize (Israel Museum, 2006) and is head of the fine arts department of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
Let’s start with risk. The risk of being punished. The risk of being isolated. The risk of being injured or killed. The risk of being scorned. We are all conscripts in one sense or another. For all of…
The Great Vehicle is one of dozens of wheeled sculptures Rantzer created for “The Zionists,” his 2001 solo exhibition at the Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv. The overall themes of the show were migration…
After noticing the prevalence of red and pink in a 1990 catalogue of Greta Garbo’s art collection, Livneh became attracted to colors. Red and orange predominated in some of his works and were…