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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