Azoulay Sagie
Winner of the 2014 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist
Curator: Petel Eli
Opening: Thursday, 23 October 2014
Closing: Saturday, 13 December 2014
Gallery talk: Saturday, 29 November 2014 12:00
This year’s winner of the Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist is Sagie Azoulay.
Excerpts from the Prize Committee’s decision: Sagie Azoulay’s exploration of the painting medium is multi-dimensional and rich in artistic insight. His work creates an illusory tension between depth and ethereal momentum; it is formed as a structure that disintegrates in space, paradoxically constructed from physical paint layers hemmed in by stencil.
Into an excavation-like structure, which captures quasi-architectonic images, oscillating between modernist abstraction and deconstruction of the artistic dimension, Azoulay threads expressive and sensitive painting segments – sculptural images taken from an ancient cultural lexicon, emphasizing the painting’s mythical power that stretches between sanctity and sublimity on the one hand, and secularization and erasure on the other hand. The Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist is awarded to Sagie Azoulay for his virtuosic painting and use of a multiplicity of painting languages, which simultaneously constructs and dismantles local as well as universal narratives.
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SAGIE AZOULAY-CV
1979 Born in Jaffa, Israel
2012-2014 MFA, Bezalel-Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv
2008-2012 BFA, Bezalel-Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Garage-Hole, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Israeli records and local scratches, BAAD Gallery, Bezalel-Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv
2013 Fresh Paint #6 Art Fair, Tel Aviv
2014 Beads Fragments, The J.R. Elyachar Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Short-Films
2011 29 Raziel st. Jaffa clock square, screening at JCC (Jewish Community Center), New York and at Radio EPGB, Tel Aviv
Awards & Grants
2012 Loren and Mitchell Perser Award for Excellence in Painting, Bezalel-Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
2013 Academic Excellence Award, MFA program, Bezalel-Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv
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Gallery Talk About Winner’s Exhibition of the 2014 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist
With the artist Sagie Azoulay
Sat. 29.11.14 at 12:00 pm