Thalidomider

Avner Ben-Gal, Thalidomider, 2008 oil on canvas, 220 x 180 x 3 cm

You are all red, and so very white

by, Eti Esther Naor

Detail view from the Installation.

This wonderful, powerful exhibition, takes place from today at Florentin 45, in Tel Aviv.

Red wax stalactites drip out of hanging white gauze clothes, creating a poignant sculptural installation. The work captures the viewer within its wall, leading him into the heart of an unresolved experience: Is it an outdoor news-breaking violence scene, or is it an opening to a place of inner pain that spreads out like an ancient landscape, wishing to touch the indescribable? Ei Esther Naor continues to explore in her new work the different manners in which matter can embody evasive contradicting feelings as eroticism, fear, beauty and suffering. Through matter she creates a fantasy space which brings up the duality of the feminine experience while seeking to undermine the possibility for a single emotional and conceptual interpretation. (text by curator Irena Gordon)

Avi Sabah

Avi Sabah is a young Israeli artist. He paints imaginary, non-specific landscapes-bare trees, tree trunks, sky, sea. At times, he is aided by photographs of trees only to observe how branches break forth from the trunk. Usually he paints from memory or the imagination. more about this talented artist in his web site

Avi Sabah ,Untitled Oil on paper, 110x75 cm

Ella Amitay Sadovsky

Ella Amitay Sadovsky, Two fifteen the pasta is ready, 2010, Oil, polymer and pigment on canvas 215X174 cm

"Colossus" by Miri Chais

Ester Schneider, Swan-Snake

Esther Schneider enchanted, captivating paintings have a spacial sensual qualities in them. They live in a sort of iconic mythical realm, that makes me, the viewer feel some sort of holiness in their presence. A flow of vitality and strength reside in them.

Ester Schneider,swan-snake,135x68 cm, ink and water colors on paper

Ester Schneider, candlestick descending a staircase, ink and water colors on paper approx 100x200 cm

Jellyfish

Jellyfish, boaz aharonovitch, digital c print, 120x120 cm, 2010

split

The Split sereis of photographs by Meirav Heiman was taken during 2003 at various places throughout Israel.

Wadi Khadav , 2003, C Print, 150X120 cm.

"Heiman's decision to thus poistion herself in relation to the landscape creates a basic situation where she dominates the environment through the presence of her body, through her pose, and through the foreign colorfulness that she brings with her. But at the same time, the specific pose she has chosen places her in the landscape horizontally, spread out, present but also stuck. As it is not a simple position, and it does not allow any movement, it transforms her, to a point, from being an active subject dominating the landscape into a passive object located in it." sais Hadas Maor at the text she wrote for the exhibition.