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Ido Bar El
Israeli Contemporary Street Art Sign, Traffic Sign Painting Street Art Sculpture

c.1997

About the Item

Ido Bar-El (Israeli, b. 1959) Untitled, c. 1997 Mixed media painting on aluminum street traffic sign Industrial paint, aluminium 24 x 24 inches (61 x 61 cm) Signed on the reverse: Ido Bar-El Bears a label from Michael Hittleman gallery, Los Angeles, California. Second picture is taken with flash. there are pictures of birthday cake, pie and a mug of coffee on it along with painting. Ido Barel is an Israeli Post War & Contemporary painter who was born in 1959. His work was featured in numerous exhibitions at prestigious Israeli and international galleries and museums, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Ido Bar-El was born in 1959 and studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem during the 1980s. Since 1996 he has served as a lecturer of art at Ramat HaSharon College and Beit Berl College, and in 1997 began his career as Senior Lecturer and Head of the Art Department at Bezalel. His paintings are characterized by the use of unique base materials: road and street signs, random furniture parts or discarded old machinery. As he meanders around the streets of his home city, Tel Aviv, he finds and gathers items and takes them back to his studio. The act of creating art transforms the mundane objects into celebrated pieces of art and gives them eternal relevance. Whether obscured under layers of paint or whether a few graphic signs of it remain, Bar-El’s paintings succeed in maintaining the coexistence of two parallel time periods; the one being the object’s former true identity with all its anthropological, historical or political aspects, and the other, the object’s period as autonomous art. Bar-El’s work is rooted in the heritage of European and American modernism, the tradition of assemblage, dada, the objettrouvé and the ‘ready-made’, but also has a deep connection to the impact these trends have had on Israeli art –in lyric abstraction and sketching. However, Bar-El says he is “quite connected to other places that are not necessarily within the structure of the Israeli debate about the experience of painting, whether through either material or color." Bar-El's singularity is the formulation of a personal, unique artistic language spanning many years of creative occupation, and succeeds in containing within it the clash between various artistic languages in relation to place and time, both political and personal. Education 1980-84 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem 1985 Art History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo Teaching Guest lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem Department of Digital Simulation, Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv-Yaffo HaMidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College Ascola School of Design, Tel Aviv-Yaffo Head of the Department of Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem MFA Program, The Department of Fine Arts, University of Haifa, Haifa Awards And Prizes 1984 Ehud Alhanani Prize, Fine Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel 1987 Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1988 Prize for a Young Artist, for Art and Sculpture, Ministry of Education and Culture 1993 Hadassah and Raphael Klachkin Grant for Art, America-Israel Cultural Foundation 1996 Prize for an Israeli Artist, Ministry of Education and Culture 2001 Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport 2010 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2012 Artist-in-Residence, The Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France 2014 Ruth and Baruch Rapaport Prize for an established artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 2015 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa Select Group Exhibitions: 1, 2, 3, Selected Israeli Artists Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, 2011 Artists: Irit Batsry, Ido Bar-El, Amit Berlowitz, Gideon Gechtman, Gabi Klasmer, Gabi, Miki Kratsman, Art Week for Human Rights, Israel Pollak School of Art, Tel Aviv 1967 Artists: Ido Bar-El, Moshe Gershuni, Yair Garbuz, Moshe Kupferman, Raffi Lavie, Pamela Levy Bertha Urdang Gallery, NY, USA 13 July, 1988 - 25 September, 2018 Artists: Diti Almog, Moshe Ninio, Tsibi Geva, Nurit David, Yardena Dankner, Arnon Ben David Israeli Art: The Renewed Collection Galleries, the Ayala Zacks Abramov Pavilion for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2015 - 2025 Artists: Reuven Rubin, Yitzhak Danziger, Larry Abramson, Lea Nikel, Naftali Bezem, Mordecai Ardon, David Reeb, Michael Gross, Ido Bar El, Yehiel Shemi, Menashe Kadishman, Avigdor Arikha, Sigalit Landau. Select Solo Exhibitions: Israel Museum, Jerusalem Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Sara Asperger Gallery, Berlin Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent, Belgium Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv University of Haifa, Faculty of Humanities, The Art Gallery Gallery of Olaf Stuber, Berlin, Germany Tel Aviv Artists' Studios (Eliphelet St.) Tel Aviv Artists' Studios (Kalisher St.), Tel Aviv The Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland MUHKA, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Creator:
    Ido Bar El (1959)
  • Creation Year:
    c.1997
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 23.63 in (60 cm)Width: 23.63 in (60 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    good. minor wear at edges, scratching verso. in studio condition.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38214837332

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