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From Mount Zero to Lake One
Oren Eliav -
In his new exhibition "From Mount Zero to Lake One", Oren Eliav brings together 25 paintings from two cycles of work, "Lake One" and "Mount Zero", which is exhibited in Israel for the first time.Mount Zero is a wide cycle of works that was presented on the four floors of the well-known "BUILDING" gallery in Milan, in the midst of the Corona epidemic. In these works, Eliav continued his engagement with the paintings of the 15th century Italian painter Giovanni Di Paolo, which began in his 2018 exhibition at the Israel Museum. Also here, at Braverman Gallery in Tel Aviv, the exhibition is arranged as a choreography of paintings, drawing the viewer's awareness to the space and time of looking, inviting an active observation from different distances and perspectives.Lake One is an ongoing cycle of works that also began in lockdown and marks the beginning of the artist's dialogue with AI based image synthesizers. Eliav creates digital images in a meticulous and long process, proceeding to paint them in oil on canvas in classical techniques. Through the manual act of painting, Eliav searches for the links between image and imagination, the human and the artificial and ultimately, between knowing and seeing.Mount Zero is a mountain whose peak appears and disappears in an instant, constantly resetting to zero. Every mountain is a wave , a transient moment in time. Lake One, flat as a mirror, reflects the whole of reality; One thing at a time and everything at once.
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From Mount Zero to Lake One,
crossing a shoreless river.
Up a mountain that
peaks into zero.
To a reflecting lake
which mirrors
one thing at a time,
and everything at once.
The Artist
Oren Eliav (b. 1975, Israel) lives and works in Tel Aviv.Exploring the link between image and imagination through painting, Eliav asks what is seeing, and what is knowing. Either by engaging with a 14th century Italian painting or a synthetically created image, Eliav looks into what happens to an image when one tries to paint it.His works are often exhibited as poetic painting installations, such as in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2011), Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2018), Building Gallery Milan (2020). Further solo exhibitions were presented by Givon Gallery (2004), Ashdod Museum of Art (2010),Suzanne Tarasieve Gallery (2016, Paris) and Braverman Gallery (2010, 2012, 2022, 2023).Group shows include (MOBY museum,2008), Ein Harod Museum (2009), Braverman Gallery (2009, 2015, 2016), Haifa Museum of Art (2009), Liverpool Biennial (2010), Leipzig International Art Programme (2014), Fondazione Giorgio Cini (2015, Venice), Pratt Institute (2016, Brooklyn), Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2016), and Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2017).Eliav is the recipient of the Ministry of Culture Award (2017). America Israel Grant Award (2004), Ministry of Culture Award for Young Artist (2008), Rappaport Prize, Tel Aviv Museum (2010), Cité Internationale des Arts residency, (2013 Paris) and Schir Art Concepts (2013, Berlin), Leipzig LIA Program (2014).Eliav received his BFA (2005) and MFA (2009) from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem.He teaches at Shenkar multidisciplinary Art School, Beit Berl College, and SKMB.
From Mount Zero to Lake One: Oren Eliav
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