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Avi Sabah
Solo exhibition for the winner of the of the Osnat Mozes young artist painting Prize for 2008
Saturday, 01.11.2008 - Saturday, 13.12.2008
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Avi Sabah's paintings may be viewed as hybrid spaces, where different worlds meet to create a paradoxical space which questions the possibility of capturing a memory and trapping it in material.
By means of physical actions on the painting material – pouring, rubbing, impressing – Sabah defines the painting as merely a surface, a concrete defined place lacking a soul, yet at the same time he aspires to imbue this shell with a new spirit.Sabah’s cultural environment is complex and multi-layered: on the one hand, it seems that he strives to restore a Catholic pathos to the painting by giving the abstract textual sign a tormented, wounded, bleeding body. On the other hand, he seems to embrace the poor Israeli environment in particular, as if trying to acknowledge artificial Formica as a symbol for plain unpretentious authenticity.Sabah's original, exciting and disturbing work evolves from the permanent transfer between cultural contradictions and clashes arising from incompatibilities of materials that consume each other.
Based on his achievements in painting and confidence in his continued and unique contribution to Israeli art, the committee has chosen to grant Avi Sabah with the Osnat Mozes young artist prize for painting, 2008.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.
About Avi SabahAbout Avi Sabah
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1977 Born in Ma'alot Tarshicha, Israel |
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