Abraham Kritzman
SMOKING
Curator: Amit Shemma
Opening: Saturday, 29 February 2020
Closing: Saturday, 8 August 2020
Gallery talk: Tuesday, 17 March 2020 18:00
By means of cutting, fragmentation, and layering, Abraham Kritzman alludes to various gathering, wandering, and hiking experiences he had in 2015 in Piatra Neamț, a city in the Moldavia region of Romania, where his great-grandfather lived years back. During his journey, Kritzman follows the evolution of various myths that carry cultural and ideological baggage. Architectural arches and vaults alongside peeled frescos come together to form new images that function as a visual façade for “mythic rifts”—transient fractures in the historical continuum, which strive to highlight the fluid, imaginary nature of our reality. These allusions elicit thoughts about situations in which the gathering of information and the multiplicity of data create camouflage and screening, while generating new stratified images that echo our relation to such notions as memory, experience, and interpretation.
The exhibition assembles myriad depictions, a blend of forms, and a sequence of visual and experiential references to form a two-space, multi-layered installation, introducing questions regarding their recurrence, preservation, and place along the historical continuum.
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Abraham Kritzman
Born in Israel 1983
Living and creating in Tel Aviv
Education
2007-2011 BFA, Fine Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2009-2010 Student exchange program, UDK Berlin
2012-2014 MA, Painting Program at the Royal College of Art, London (Bezalel-Clore
Scholarship)
Teaching
2010-2012 Tutor of students with learning disabilities from the BFA and MFA of Bezalel
Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem
2011-2012 Assistant at the print workshop at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in
Jerusalem
2014-2016 Lecturer at the School of Visual Art, Kaye College, Beersheva
2014-2019 Lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem
2019 Teacher Tel Aviv Museum of Art Printmaking Workshop
Solo Exhibitions:
2013 "Walks with Sticks and Sounds Like Horses Putting Stones on Things", Kayma Gallery,
Tel Aviv-Jaffa, curator: Yael Ferber
2014 "Tuga, St. Mary Aldemary", London, curator: Chris Munchin
2015 "Vermilion Border", Artists House Tel Aviv, curator: Rivka Bakalash
"His Sprinkled Blood Served To Fructify Three Golden Apples", ODD & Atelier 35, Bucharest, curator: Angels Miralda
2016 "Abraham Kritzman", News of the World Gallery, London, curator: Pierre Coinde
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 "Art Meeting, Drawing in Between", UDK, Berlin, Curator: Daniela Ehemann
2010 "Danna‘s Choice", Jaffa, Curator: Danna Heller
"Danna‘s Choice II", Jaffa, Curator: Danna Heller
2011 "Tsamud", Manofim festival, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, Curator: Masha Zusman
2012 "Enclave", Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curators: Yoav Admoni & Dan Madursky
"Docu-Performance", Artist's studios Jerusalem, Curator: Guy Gutman
"MM1 - Re De We Construct", Arbeit Gallery, London, Curators: Sharon Tuval and Nimrod Vardi
"Israeli Landscape", Shorashim Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Sharon Tuval
"Question, Reaction, Examination, Reaction", Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, MM1 Project,
Curators: Sharon Tuval and Nimrod Vardi
2013 "Ptng Nov", Henry Moor Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
"Open Plan", Open Plan Space, London
"Work In Progress", Royal College of Art, London
"Notes to Self", Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
2014 "WIP - Graduate Art Prize 2014", Herbert Smith, London
"Articles of Evidence", Broadway Studios, London
"am", RCA SHOW, Royal College of Art Sackler, London, Collaboration with Marlene Steyn
"Inoperative Mythology", Blyth Gallery, London, Curator: Angels Miralda Tena
2015 "Barbur B&B", Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, Curators: Masha Zusman and Nir Harel
"BeEin Mazuyenet" (With Armed Eye), New Gallery Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem, Curator: Hedva Shemesh
2016 "Coated in Pre-existence", ELIZABETH XI BAUER, The Cob Gallery, London, Curator: Giulia Damiani
"Art Camp 2016: Art Activists", The Negev Museum of Art, Beer Sheva
2017 "Stand Still", Abraham Kritzman and Eyal Sasson, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, (text by Keren Goldberg)
"On the Road", The Artist’s House, Tel Aviv, Curators: Nir Harmat and Dalia Danon
"Talking Bones", Artspace, Tel Aviv, Curators: Assaf Hinden and Bar Yerushalmi
"Dynamism", IDRIS Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 "The M Tree" (with Boaz Barkani), Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Ofra Harnam
"Kneading the Torso Makes a Buzz" (with Marlene Steyn and Àngels Miralda), Kav 16 Community Gallery for Contemporary Art, Curator: Karni Barzilay
"Local Contemporary Print", The New Gallery Artists' Studios Teddy, Jerusalem, Curators: Irena Gordon and Tamar Gispan Grinberg
2019 "Returning" (with Theodore Ereira-Guyer), Elizabeth Xi Bauer, London, Curator: Giulia Damiani, Publication
"Unwillful" Movement, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Curator: Irena Gordon
עת"At", Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Group", YB5, Tel Aviv, Curator: Talya Tokatly
"No Body No Land No Blood No Country", Bar David Museum of Art, Bar-Am, Israel, Curator: Avi Ifargan
Prizes and Awards
2009 Herman Struk Prize for printmaking
2010 Aileen Cooper Prize, History and Theory Excellence Award from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2011 Leejay Levene Excellency Art Scholarship
Excellence Award for Achievements from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Department of Fine Art
2012 Clore – Bezalel Scholarship for MFA at the Royal College of Art, London
2013 Villiers David Travel Award, Royal College of Art, London
2017 Prize for Young Artist, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport
Residency
2012 Arebyte Gallery, MM1 Project, funds by BI- arts, London, UK
2015 ODD Gallery (formewr Atelier 35), Bucharest, Romania
2016 Kav 16 - Community Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
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Tue., 17.3.20 at 6 pm – SMOKING exhibition gallery talk
Tue., 17.3.20 at 6 pm – SMOKING exhibition gallery talk | Installation view, Jerusalem Artists’ House, 2020
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This exhibition is accompanied by aCatalogue