March and April 2011 Events and Exhibitions at the Jerusalem Artists House

Winner of the 2011 Miron Sima Visual Arts Award

Opening: Saturday, 19.03.2011. Closing: Saturday, 30.04.2011

Eldar Ferber is one of the most important realist artists in Israel. His paintings are thoughtful painterly constructions that are precise and faithful to reality whilst also being sensitive and full of wonder for the nature he depicts. His painting method is based on deconstructing the view into its abstract components – splashes of colors and lines – that at the end of this process, make up the painting not through preconception of its formal conventions, but through examination, trial and error. In contrast to the endless sequence of images that floods us today, in his work, Farber offers a different kind of experience – that of focused, intensive and extended observation.

Gallery talk with Eldar Farber, Sat. 9.4.2011 at 12 pm

Rakefet Viner Omer

Winner of the 2011 Miron Sima Visual Arts Award

Opening: Saturday, 19.03.2011. Closing: Saturday, 30.04.2011

Rakefet Viner-Omer’s painting draws its vivaciousness from an inventing force taken from places of seeming naivety, sites where the imagination touches the perverse, and the intensive work with the medium produces an affinity with primal and unformed places. Despite its quality and significance as an exciting, emotional and original painting, the artist does not allow it to have an eternal life in its own independent space. Vine-Omer makes secondary use of her paintings, creating installations, so that her paintings become building blocks for a structure, such as a hut or constitute letters in a word. Her often radical actions with the paintings, subvert the sense of self exposure and good taste, connecting her works to life and to the mundane world in a humorous yet painful and grotesque manner.

A gallery talk with Rakefet Viner Omer, Sat. 2.4.2011 at 12 pm

Hagit Ganini / Bounded

First exhibition in the 17th Nidbach series

Opening: Saturday, 19.03.2011. Closing: Saturday, 30.04.2011

Curator: Eli Petel

Hagit Ganini’s work is mostly sculptural and deals with the gaps between the physical and material survival and the coming into being – creatively, intellectually and culturally. This exhibition is characterized by a three-dimensional rough look combined with colorfulness that refers to its materiality and its oppositions (graphics). It is placed in a constant middle state, aggressive by nature, rising from the act of art and frequently renewed as a conflict with regard to reality.

Ruti Matityahu

Life Circles

Opening: Saturday, 19.03.2011. Closing: Saturday, 30.04.2011

Curator: Zvi Tolkovsky

In the installation “Life Circles”, Ruti Matityahu uses symbols from the religious and historical world of knowledge in order to create a renewed inner dialog with the phenomenon surrounding us – the visible, the hidden and that between them.