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Avraham Eilat (Hebrew: אברהם אילת, born 1939 in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine) is an Israeli artist, educator and curator. He graduated from the Hebrew Gimnasium Herzliya in Tel Aviv, and was enrolled in Hashomer Hatzair youth movement for nine years starting at age 9. After military service in 1960 he joined in Kibbutz Shamir, situated on the western slopes of the Golan Heights in the Upper Galilee, where he was a member until 1978. During his first years in the kibbutz, Eilat was a shepherd side-by-side with his kibbutz adopting father the painter Moshe Cagan. Close contact with nature and its phenomenon and the features of local landscape deeply influenced his way of thinking and established the themes appearing along all his career in his art. The contrast between man-made geometrical shapes of fish ponds and the free flowing of the flora and typical hilly landscape of the Hula Valley area, crystallized his visual language and determined its formal and thematic foundations. Avraham Eilat employs skillfully various means of expression: drawing and painting, etching, photography, sculpture, installation, and often a combination of more than one. Using those means enriches his basic statement and makes it complex and multi-layered. Avraham Eilat lives in Ein Hod Artists Village, Israel, with his spouse Margol Guttman, works in his studio in Pyramida Center of Contemporary Art, Wadi Salib, Haifa, and in his studio in Ein Hod.
1986 Co-founder of The Israeli Biennale of Photography, Ein Harod
1985–1987 Head of Photography Dept. Wizo Academy of Design, Haifa, Israel
1989–1991 Curator of photography, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
1994 Co-founder and chairman of Pyramida Centre for Contemporary Art, Haifa
1995–1999 Director of Pyramida Center of Contemporary Art
2000–2001 Director and chief curator of The Israeli Museum of Photography, Tel Hai
2003–2009 Director of Pyramida Center of Contemporary Art, Wadi Salib, Haifa
Recently: curator of visual arts for the National Maritime Museum, Haifa
Art studies
Avraham Eilat's art studies started when he was 14 years old. As a young pupil at the Herzliya Gimnasium in Tel Aviv he studied painting under Arie Allweil, who believed in his talent and invited him to stay with him and work under his guidance in the town of Tzfat (summer of 1954). During the years 1962–1965, parallel to working as shepherd in Kibbutz Shamir he was a part-time student in the Tel Aviv "High School of Painting", guided by the artist Arie Margoshilski, the founder and director the school. His diploma subject was "Quarry", a subject matter that kept coming up in his work in various versions through the years. In 1966, Avraham Eilat studied in the famous "Atelier 17", Paris, an international etching studio founded and directed by the English etcher Stanley William Hayter. In the workshop he met artists from different countries and became a close friend with the Japanese artist Kenji Yoshida, who in 1968 was his guest for two months in Kibbutz Shamir. They kept in touch until Yoshida's death in 2009.
In 1970, after participating in some exhibition in Israel and abroad, Eilat received a grant for overseas studies from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, and studied at St. Martin's College of art in London. There he worked on sculpture under Anthony Caro and at the same time began to create experimental films under the guidance of the avant-garde film maker Malcolm Le Grice.
Selected awards and grants
2004 Israeli Ministry of education and Culture prize
1997 Artist in Residence, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, New York
1989 "Premio Cervo", Italy
Selected solo exhibitions
2010 Psychophysical Time, Gallery G-art, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 The fear of what is suddenly too late, Galerie 21, Cologne, Germany
2009 Scratches – between drawing to photography, Wizo Academic Center, Haifa, Israel
2005 Psychophysical Time, Galeria Wschodnia, Lodz, Poland
2005 The Silence of the Sea, Israeli National Maritime Museum, Haifa, Israel
2004 Suspicious Symptoms, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2003 Mortal, Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
2000 112 Portraits Front and Back, Galeria FF, Lodz, Poland
1992 From the Gut – From the Mind, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1981 Structures for a Given Interior, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Selected group exhibitions
2010 Wadi Saliv – Layers, Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
2009 Photography from Israel, Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008 Twisted Reality, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
2008 The International Triennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery in Prague
2006 Video Zero – Performing the Body, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2006 The Image of God, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2006 New Territories, De Hallen, Brugge, Belgium
2004 Video Zero – Towards Cinema, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2003 Video Zero – Communication Interference, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2001 Jewish Artists on the Edgde, Yeshiva University Museum, New York
1999 1st International Triennale of Installations, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
1998 Milestones – Israeli Sculpture 1948–1998, The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel
1998 The Bridge, International art event, Melbourne, Australia
1987 Vom Landschaftsbild zur Spurensicherung, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Catalogues and books
Fear, Artist Book, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel
The Silence of The Sea, catalogue recording exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Haifa, Israel, texts by Joshua Sobol *and Avraham Eilat, 2006
Suspicious Symptoms, catalogue, text by Shlomit Shaked, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2004
Mortal, catalogue, text by Carole Naggar, Pyramida Center for Art, Haifa, 2003
The Armchair, artist book, text by J. Sobol, a numbered edition of 120 copies, 2002
112 Portraits Front & Back, catalogue, Galeria FF, Lodz, Poland, 2000
Hieroglyphics of Reality, catalogue, texts by J. Sobol & A. Eilat, Tel Aviv, 1996
From the Gut – From the Mind, catalogue, texts by Y. Safran, M. Perry-Lehman and N. Perez, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1992
A Painter with A Camera, photographs, texts by J. Sobol and Nissan Perez, Hakibbutz
Structures for a Given Interior, catalogue, text by Yehudit Shen-dar, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa 1981
Avraham Eilat, by Rudolf Kreuzer, Perlinger Verlag, Vorgl, Austria, 1980
Avraham Eilat, Drawings, catalogue, text by G. Tadmor, Haifa Museum of Art, 1975
Avraham Eilat, catalogue, no text, Galerie Eremitage, Schwaz, Austria, 1969
References
Avraham Eilat, Zeichnungen- Aquarelle-Radierungen, Perlinger Verlag, Austria, 1980
Painter with a Camera, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Israel, 1986
The Israeli Photography Biennale, Museum of Eim Harod, Israel, 1986
17th Biennale of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, 1987
To Live with a Dream, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Dvir Publishers, Israel, 1989
Milestones, Israeli Sculpture, The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel, 1948–1998
The Bridge, Construction in Process VI, Craftsman House Publishers, Melbourne, 1998
Suspicious Symptoms, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, catalogue, 2004
Video Zero, Towards Cinema, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, 2004
Video Zero, Performing the Body, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, 2006
International Triennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, 2008
The Birth of Now, The Second Decade: 1958–1968, Ashdod Art Museum, 2008
External links
http://www.eilatart.com/
http://www.ein-hod.org/?Language=1
http://www.pixelpress.org/
http://www.galeriaff.infocentrum.com/
http://www.21galerie.de/ Archived 30 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20110721143638/http://www.hms.org.il/Museum/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&TMID=953&LNGID=1&FID=859&PID=1887&IID=1798
http://www.kupferman.co.il/Hosted_Exhibition_eng.asp
https://web.archive.org/web/20141218034835/http://pyramidart.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20081121121430/http://www.museumeinharod.org.il/english/exhibitions/1980-1989/
"Dr. Jochai Rosen". Archived from the original on 31 July 2005.
http://www.artdes.monash.edu.au/globe/issue8/tbtitle.html
http://www.jerusalemprintworkshop.org/
"זמן קיבוץ חדר אוכל כמשל". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011.
http://www.mouse.co.il/CM.articles_item,1018,209,39879,.aspx
"אברהם אילת: שריטות בין רישום לצילום". Archived from the original on 11 May 2012.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110721143418/http://www.digitalartlab.org.il/ExhibitionPageHeb.asp?id=133&path=artist
http://www.a-designer.co.il/newsFull.asp?newsid=2703
https://web.archive.org/web/20110727143751/http://www.e-mago.co.il/articles/503.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20110927180805/http://www.kibbutz.org.il/itonut/2009/dafyarok/090527_hadar_ochel.htm?findWords=%D7%97%D7%93%D7%A8
http://www.mynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3707696,00.html
http://www.mako.co.il/music-Magazine/articles/Article-43834c22f956f11004.htm
Dana Gillerman (28 February 2007). דאדא במוזיאון ישראל, מלכות יופי בעין חרוד [Dada at the Israel Museum, Ein Harod beauty queens]. Haaretz (in Hebrew).
עימותים אמנותיים בתערוכה חדשה [A new exhibition of artistic clashes]. Maariv (in Hebrew). 8 September 2008.
"הביאנלה הארצית לרישום בארבעה חללי תצוגה בירושלים". Archived from the original on 25 July 2011.
"משה גבעתי 1970–1966". Archived from the original on 29 April 2009.
http://www.haifacity.com/article.asp?articlecode=1735
"ITCA – International Triennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery in Prague, Veletrzni Palace". Archived from the original on 8 July 2011.
"Exhibition in Ein Hod olive grove, Carmel region, Israel". Archived from the original on 8 July 2011.
"From Trash to Trash". Archived from the original on 16 July 2008.
"International Triennale of Contemporary Art". Archived from the original on 8 July 2008.
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