VOLTA BASEL catalogue- Elad Kopler & Amir Tomashov

VOLTA13 MARKTHALLE, BASEL June 12 - 17/2017

Booth D10

Elad Kopler Amir Tomashov

Eris Litvak Contemporary is pleased to announce their participation in Volta Basel 2017, featuring works by Israeli artists Elad Kopler and Amir Tomashov.

The title of this presentation, Eris, evokes the Greek goddess of discord, chaos, and strife.. Both Kopler and Tomashov are led by feelings of existential anxiety and a preoccupation with the tension between figurative imagery and its deconstruction, their architectural backgrounds has inspired them to each produce very different end products. What may appear at first glance chaotic and destructive in their work is reassembled to create a new perspectives that challenge our assumptions of space but also communicate the underlying anxiety and emotions we experience in the modern world.

Kopler starts his process with a certain urban image or landscape, which he then dismantles into fragmented abstraction. Blurring the border between shapes and patches of color and sabotaging proper perspective by amalgamating two seemingly estranged landscapes, Kopler uses his canvas to celebrate all that is “wrong� in figurative painting. In an effort to obliviate all coherency from a two-dimensional space, the artist finds sublime beauty unbounded by the rules of nature or society.

Conversely, Tomashov’s precise drawings utilize the building tools of an architect and focuses on the surrealist, yet figurative, work of art. Conveying the urban anatomy of the metropolis and the beauty of destruction, Tomashov uses everyday materials to create fictional scenes. In his end result, he offers a symbolic and instant comparison between the process of building and destruction.

Elad Kopler

Untitled 1, 2017, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 180x160 cm For inquiries please click here

Untitled 6, 2017 Acrylic and Oil on canvas 120x90 cm For inquiries please click here

Untitled 4, 2017 Acrylic and Oil on canvas 160x120 cm For inquiries please click here

Untitled 7, 2017 Acrylic and Oil on canvas 120x90 cm For inquiries please click here

Untitled 5, 2017 Acrylic and Oil on canvas 120x90 cm For inquiries please click here

Untitled 3, 2017 Acrylic and Oil on canvas 160x120 cm For inquiries please click here

Untitled 2, 2016 Acrylic and Oil on canvas 180x160 cm For inquiries please click here

Elad Kopler Born in Ramat Gan, Israel, 1974. Lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Education

Ship of Fools, Kibbutz Be’eri Gallery, Kibbutz Be’eri; curator: Ziva Yelin

2005-2006 M.A., Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Tel Aviv

2007

2000-2004 B.E.D., Hamidrasha School of Art, Biet Berl Academic College 1997-1998 Architecture and Design, Ort, Tel Aviv

Solo & Duo Exhibitions 2017

Imaginary Spaces: Works by Elad Kopler and Itamar Freed, Mana Contemporary, USA.

2016

VOLTA NY Art Fair 2016, Pier 90, New York, USA.

2014

Eminent Domain, Feinberg Projects, Tel Aviv

2013

Elad Kopler: Temperatures, Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; curator: Tal Lanir (catalogue)

2011

2009

Passages, Hamidrasha Gallery, Biet Berl Academic College

Group Exhibitions 2017

Ingathering, 10th Anniversary of Rappaport Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

2016

Modernism 2016, Rosenbach Contemporary, Jerusalem; curator: Nogah Davidson Druchim, Alma Center for the Arts, Zichron Yaakov, Israel; curator: Sarit Shapira Tishaa Ktarim, Soka Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Orly Dvir

2015

Mehilot, Beit Kaner Gallery, Rishon Le’Zion, Israel; curator: Galit Semel

No Man’s Land, The Artists’ Studio, Tel Aviv; curator: Vered Gani

Akhshav: Contemporary Israeli Painting, Stein Rose Fine Arts, NY

“Artist Room” Project, Artplus Hotel, Tel Aviv; curator: Dana Golan

Dark Matter, Litvak Contemporary, Tel Aviv; curators: Howard Rutkowski, Mary Dinaburg

Black Clouds, Habres + Partner Gallery, Vienna After the Heat Wave, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv

2008

When Despair Becomes Plausible, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv

Twilight, Biet Berl Academic College Gallery, curatorial team guided by David Ginaton

2014

Select Art Fair, Miami Art Week

2012

Other Space, Feinberg Projects, Tel Aviv

2011

The Coming Community, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa; curators: Yeela Hazut, Lee Veinberg Placing Time, Theatrical Exhibition in the Public Space; curators: Yael Tsabari,

Hila Cohen Schneiderman

Sderot, Israel

Placing Time, Theatrical Exhibition in the Public Space; curators: Yael Tsabari, Hila Cohen Schneiderman

100 Years of Bezalel Art Academy, Ben Gurion Airport

2010

International Sculpture Triennial, Poznan, Poland

2009

Crisis of the Genre, International Sculpture triennial, Poznan, Poland

2008

Postpop, Israeli Cartoon Museum, Holon; curator: Yuval Caspi (catalogue)

Graduate’s Program exhibition, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv Bezalel-Glasgow, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv

Bezalel in Istanbul, Istanbul Biennial 2005

In Silence, Rothschild Gallery 69, Tel Aviv; curator: Noam Segal Young Artist Award Winner Exhibition, Haifa Museum of Art; curators: Tami Katz-Freiman, Tal Yahas Etchings, Scratches and Scars, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel; curator: Drorit Gur Arie

Summer Exhibition, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv 2004

Graduates Exhibition, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl, Israel

2003

Wounded, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv

2002

A Day Will Come: Artists for Arab– Israeli Coexistence, Umm El-Fahm GalleryRosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

White, Tavi Dresdner Gallery; Tel Aviv

2007

NOIR, Bienth Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Ben Zur

Scholarships and Awards

Secret Art, Bank Hapoalim, Tel Aviv

2012

Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum

2007

Young Artist Award, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport

2006

Award for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art Design

Under the Sun, Gilit Fisher Gallery, Tel Aviv By the Way, The Heder Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv 7 Sculptures, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv Above and Beyond, The Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Avivv

2006

Artik 7, America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award Winners, Ramat-Gan Museum (catalogue)

Shoshelet, (Dynasty), Sapir College,

2005-2007 America-Israel Cultural Foundation 2004

Excellence Award Scholarship, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College

Amir Tomashov

Abyssus Abyssum Invocat no.35, Graphite and ink on wood 77x46x14 cm For inquiries please click here

Abyssus abyssum incovat 38a, 2017 Graphite on paper 56x76 cm Abyssus abyssum incovat 38b, 2017 Graphite on paper 41x56 cm Abyssus abyssum incovat 38c, 2017 Graphite on paper 56x76 cm Abyssus abyssum incovat 38d, 2017 Graphite on paper 56x41 cm For inquiries please click here

Exposed landscape no.8f 2017, Graphite and ink on wood 120x80x4 cm For inquiries please click here

Codtidie est deterior posterior dies 1 2017, Graphite on bookbinding 60x45 cm For inquiries please click here

Codtidie est deterior posterior dies 3 2017, Graphite on bookbinding 60X45 cm For inquiries please click here

Codtidie est deterior posterior dies 4 2017, Graphite on bookbinding 60x45 cm For inquiries please click here

Codtidie est deterior posterior dies 6 2017, Graphite on bookbinding 60x45 cm For inquiries please click here

Codtidie est deterior posterior dies 7 2017, Graphite on bookbinding 60x45 cm For inquiries please click here

Codtidie est deterior posterior dies 8 2017, Graphite on bookbinding 60x45 cm For inquiries please click here

One hell summons another, 2017 Graphite on wood 90X66x14 cm For inquiries please click here

Exposed landscape 22a, 2017 Graphite on paper 47x37 cm For inquiries please click here

Exposed landscape 22b, 2017 Graphite on paper 47x37 cm For inquiries please click here

Exposed landscape 22c, 2017 Graphite on paper 47x37 cm For inquiries please click here

Exposed landscape 22d, 2017 Graphite on paper 47x37 cm For inquiries please click here

Exposed landscape 25 (Diptych), 2017 Graphite on bookbinding 78x56 cm For inquiries please click here

Amir Tomashov www.Amir-Tomashov.com facebook: Amir Tomashov - The 5th Horseman flickr: Amir Tomashov - The 5th Horseman 2016 – present

2011

2009

Lecturer and instuctor, “Presentation Graphics Skills and Criticism for Architects”; Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Four Rooms (group exhibition); Ha’Hava Gallery, Holon

Instructor, first year architectural design studio; Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.

Fresh Paint 7 2014 Greenhouse artist

Trapped? (group exhibition); Kibbutz Galuyut 45, Tel Aviv

Abyssus Abyssum Invocat (Solo Exhibition); The Constant Sculpture Gallery, Ramat Gan

B.Arch (cum laude), Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

The Benevolent Tree (group exhibition); Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, Umm elFahem

Selected Exhibitions and Events 2016

Urbanism (duo exhibition with Liat Livni); Litvak Contemporary, Tel Aviv A Terrible Beauty is Born (group exhibition); Tivon Gallery, Kiryat Tivon

Group Exhibition “Meshuna” Gallery, TelAviv 2013

I will make the land a desolate waste (duo exhibition with Shlomi Lalouch); Alfred Institute for Art & Culture, Tel Aviv

STRAND - Sustainable Urban Society Association, Belgrade

Living As Form (group exhibition) ArtPort Gallery, Tel Aviv

Tower of Babel (group exhibition); Schema Projects, New York

Tzeva Glili 1 2013 Greenhouse artist

The Train Will Come Soon (group exhibition); Afula Gallery, Afula 2015

Baggage (group exhibition); Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin 2014

Base Colors 2; Multi-Artist event at the abandoned Shaar Ha’egel military base

Modus Operandi (solo exhibition); Meshuna Gallery, Tel Aviv Horror Vaccui (group exhibition); Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv

Anti Abundance (group exhibition); Bar David Museum, Bar’am

International Conference and Exhibition ON ARCHITECTURE;

Upside Town, solo exhibition; The Turkish Market, Haifa 2012

Once I was A House (group exhibition); Caesarea Exposed Landscape joint exhibition with Liat Livni; The Jerusalem Artists House, Jerusalem

Fresh Paint 5 2012 Greenhouse artist Project of the Year 2011 group exhibition and Arieh & Eldar Sharon award for creative students; ZeZeZe gallery, Tel-Aviv

Side Effects II (group exhibition); Kayma Gallery, Jaffa 2011

Concealed City – Revealed City joint exhibition with Liat Livni; Grand Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel

Essential Passage, dual exhibition, Ha’Maavar Gallery, Haifa Dreaming Reality, group exhibition; Pyramida gallery, Haifa 2009

Dolly City graduation project exhibition, Technion, Haifa

2008

Farbe, Flache und Raum, group exhibition; Germany

Selected Honors and Awards

Vacuum (group exhibition); Raw Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv

2011

Arieh and Eldar Sharon Award for Creative Students

Annual Report 3 (group exhibition); Kayma Gallery, Jaffa

2010

First prize, “Seeds of Israeli Architecture”, David Azrieli Award

Horseman of Apocalypse, solo exhibition, Kayma Gallery, Jaffa Artists for Artists exhibition, in collaboration with Yakov Hefez, Pyramida Gallery, Haifa 2010

Plovdiv-Haifa group exhibition; Pyramida Gallery, Haifa Dreams, group exhibition; Capzoola Gallery, Tel Aviv

Reiskin Award for academic achievements and architectural design, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 2009

Selected Projects and Design Competition 2011

Contemporary Israeli Sketchers, group exhibition, Bulgaria

Design and execution of the Israeli pavilion at the 2012 Expo in Yeosoo, Korea; with Studio Hyuli and DiskIn Pro Proposal for the Israeli-Russian WWII Victory Monument; Natanya, Israel, in collaboration with ‘Ha-cheder’ Gallery and Arch. Sagi Rechter

Bat-Yam International Biennale, group exhibition; Bat-Yam

Pecha-Kucha 10 Festival, “Dolly City” Project; with Arch. Sagi Rechter, Tel Aviv

Photography Award, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-ITT

2010

Bat-Yam International Biennale, Ort Ha-Bonum Project, with Bilu Blich

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