David Gerstein

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• David Gerstein

  ”... Min kärlek är att bygga en magi, en diskret / Tower of magic”, skrev den modernistiska amerikanska poeten EE Cummings och hans ord verkar vara viskade kärleksfullt till verken av konstnären David Gerstein.

  Gerstein’s skapelser är utåt enkla och tydliga - de innehåller luft och ljus - de strävar efter att röra vid oberörbarheten. Både hans målningar och skulpturer, anammar en väsentlig kvalité på form och materia. De vädjar till sina åskådare, utan förlägenhet eller tveksamhet, förför dem i en värld av konst, full av trolleri och glädje.

  Som en målare samt en skulptör, en utmärkt tecknare och en händig konstruktör, David Gerstein syftar till att utvidga gränserna för tvådimensionella målningar i tredimensionella skulpturer. I sitt val av material vill han bryta ner de befintliga barriärerna mellan konstverk och publik genom att skapa förtrollade samt på sitt sätt enkla bilder.

  David gör, ibland intima, drömska naiva scener och vid andra tillfällen, CINEMASKOP- liknande storskaliga, koreograferade händelser. Davids konst upprätthåller, på ett estetiskt och socialt sätt spänningen på hög konstnivå mitt i populärkulturen. Hans mångsidiga konstverk representeras både av inomhus väggskulpturer som bildar fler dimensionell cut-outs, stora grandiosa utomhus verk, skulpturer, målningar, grafik samt teckningar.

  David finns representerad världen över i flera museer och gallerier, i privata samlingar, samt i flera världsomspännande offentliga miljöer både inom- och utomhus.

  Gränslöst Måleri
  av Irena Gordon
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• 1944 Born in Jerusalem
• 1965-66 Studied at the Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
• 1966-68 Studied at the Ecole Supיrieure des Beaux Arts, Paris
• 1968-70 Studied at the Arts Students League, New York
• 1973-74 Post graduate studies at St. Martin's School of Art, London
• 1971-85 Senior Lecturer at the Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem

Exhibitions: SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

• 1971 Engel Gallery, Jerusalem
• 1972 The Artists' House, Jerusalem
• 1980 Horace Richter Gallery, Tel Aviv
• 1982 Horace Richter Gallery, Tel Aviv
• 1984 Radius Gallery, Tel Aviv (a member of Radius Group)
• 1987 Israel Museum, Jerusalem ("From Dudu to 3-D") Albert White Gallery, Toronto
• 1988 Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art ("Frames")
• 1989 Herzliya Museum ("Totems") Albert White Gallery, Toronto "Art 20" International Art Fair, Basel
• 1992 Yavneh Art Workshop ("Pupils") "Art Frankfurt" International Art Fair
• 1993 Ashdod Museum ("Extended Pupils")
• 1994 Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv ("Cutouts")
• 1995 "Art Multiple", Dosseldorf Conzen Gallery, D?sseldorf
• 1996 Center of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv Moria Gallery, Washington D.C. "Art Multiple", Dosseldorf Zimmermann und Heitmann Gallery, Dortmund Breitbach Gallery, Unna
• 1997 "Encircled People", Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv Conzen Gallery, Dosseldorf Galerie IM Kornbrennerei Museum, Telgte Edition of Art, Innsbruck Gallery 33, Essen Gallery Ostendorf, Monster
• 1998 Gallery Regenbogen, Stuttgart Gallery Menzel, Bad Honef Gallery Auf der Treppe, Limburg Gallery Konig, Darmstadt
• 1999 Ambassador Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Gallery Silecchia, Sarasota, FL Newbury Fine Art Gallery, Boston Stricoff Gallery, New York Aduko France Fine Art, Lyon Art Symbol, Paris Art Seiffer, St Paul de Vence Gallery Plakart, Frankfurt Gallery Veith, Ludwigsburg Gallery Hohmann, Koln Gallery Krombholz, Koln
• 2000 Gallery 33, Essen Gallery Fischerplatz, Ulm Galerie de Cannes, Cannes Galeria Chabonion le Baron, Lareunion Art Symbol, Paris Galleria di Sorrento, Las Vegas, NV Danielle Peleg, West Bloomfield, MI Gallery "PZ", Krefeld
• 2001 New River Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Galleria Silecchia, Sarasota, FL Stricoff Gallery, New York Newbury Fine Art, Boston Barrington Gallery of London, New York
• 2001 "Tango Sur Seine", paintings, Artists House, Jerusalem.
• 2001 "Pixul", Art Gallery at The Memorial Center, Kiriat Tivon.
• 2001 "The Private Sector", Meirov Municipal Art Gallery, Holon.
• 2002 "Balance Trial", The Municipal Gallery "On the Cliff", Netania.
• 2002 Osklen Multimedia Space, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2002 Peter's Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• 2002 Mensing Gallery, Hamm, Germany.
• 2002 "No Favorite Color", Street Installation during Documenta, Kassel , Germany.
• 2003 Nord L/B Gallery, Hannover, Germany.
• 2003 Nuances et Lumiere Gallery, Lyon, France

Exhibitions: SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 1972 The Print Biennale, Florence
• 1973 "Israeli Graphic Art Today", Tel Aviv Museum
• 1981 "Four Artists", Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
• 1983 "New Acquisitions", Israel Museum, Jerusalem The Triennale of Israeli Graphic Art, Haifa Museum "New Prints", Jerusalem Print Shop
• 1985 "Four Sculptors", Aika Braun Gallery, Jerusalem "Towards a Godless Myth", Artists' House, Jerusalem
• 1986 "There are no Bad Animals", travelling exhibition, Omanut La'am "Artists on Miluim (Army Reserves)", Debel Gallery, Ein Kerem
• 1987 "Flags", Israel Festival, Jerusalem "Towards a New Israeli Realism", Uri and Rami Nechushtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'akov "Four Artists", Meimad Gallery, Tel Aviv "Quotation-Painting-Quotation", Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan "Six Israeli Artists", Israel 40th Anniversary
• 1988 "Haifa, Portrait of a City", Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art International Biennale of Graphic Art, Ljubliana
• 1989 "Via Maris", Bat Yam Museum "These Sabras", Municipal Gallery, Jerusalem "Artists' Studios", Aika Brown Gallery, Jerusalem
• 1990 "Health and Long Life", Humor in Israeli art, Omanut La'am, travelling exhibition "Leaves", Artists' House, Jerusalem
• 1991 "Who's Afraid of Kitsch?", Yad Labanim Museum, Ra'anana
• 1992 "Homage to the Cit?", Artists House, Jerusalem "Flowers", Omanut La'am, travelling exhibition "Receptacle and Contents", Artists' House, Jerusalem
• 1993 "Persistent Image", Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam Museum "Childhood Reminiscence", Memorial Center in Kiryat Tivon "Tel Aviv in the Tracks of the Bauhaus", the old building of the "Ha'aretz" newspaper, Tel Aviv
• 1994 "Israeli Sculpture, The Last Decade", Tefen Museum
• 1995 "Object-Object: Dialogue between Art and Design", Municipal Gallery, Kfar Sava; Ashdod Museum
• 1996 "Local Line" Neve Tsedek Gallery, Tel Aviv "Art Multiples 96'", Dusseldorf
• 1997 "Box", Israel Museum, Youth Wing, Jerusalem "When the Dinosaur Met the Bird", Bat Yam Museum "Samson and Delilah", Ashdod Museum
• 1998 Look at the Vase, Arad Museum Land Marks, Open Museum, Teffen
• 1999 End 2000, Haifa
• 2000 Public Art, Givataim The Year of Brand, The Villa, Jaffa I Have a Dream, The Holon Interdisciplinary Center for Art and Science
• 2001 "Childhood", Waddi Nisnass, Haifa.
• 2001 "Balances", The Tel Aviv District Court.
• 2001 "Work in the Eyes", Ha'Shfela Museum, Kfar Menahem.
• 2001 "Betzelem", Ten Years to the Organization, Givatayim Theatre.
• 2002 "The Dolphins Project", Tel Aviv.
• 2002 "The Lyons Project", Jerusalem.
• 2002 "An Homage To Yoseph Hirsh" Tel Aviv's Artist's House.
• 2002 "Markers", The Electricity Company in Kassel, Germany.
• 2002 "Markers", Jerusalem Theatre and Yaalom Theatre.
• 2002 "Sculpture as Toy", Bat Yam, Arad, Ashdod, Rechovot, Kfar Saba Museums.
• 2002 "Art on the Line", for the Haifa Museum of Art Friends.
• 2002 "W.C. Environment", The Stage Arts Center, The Opera House, Tel Aviv.

Exhibitions: SELECTED ART IN PUBLIC SPACES

• 1985 "Bicycle Rider", Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem
• 1986 "The White Rider", City of Lod
• 1988 Sculptural children's playground, Weiller Park, Jerusalem
• 1992 "Kiosk", Israel Museum, Jerusalem Six sculptures at Avdat archeological site, the Negev
• 1993 "Great Tree", billboard project in Ramat Hasharon Wall relief, main office of the Electric Company, Jerusalem
• 1994 "Ladder of Motives", Open Museum, Tefen
• 1995 Two wall pieces for Bank Leumi, Tel Aviv "The Flower Vase", Bank Leumi, Rehovot "Jacob's Ladder", Israel Festival, Jerusalem
• 1996 "Scientific Orange", Rehovot shopping & central bus station Mall Israel Festival, Jerusalem "Head Within a Head", the Hebrew University, Jerusalem "Vases", Brigada Street, Herzliya
• 1997 "Above the Head", Installation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem "City Square", Center of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv "Pupils", Dizengoff Street, Tel Aviv
• 1998 Cow, Raanana Park, Raanana
• 1999 A Whole World, Hebrew University, Jerusalem The Bus, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Homage to Alterman, Dizingoff Street, Tel Aviv
• 2000 Audience, Jerusalem Theater, Jerusalem
• 2001 "Day and Night", Bezeq Lobby, Azrieli Center, Tel Aviv.
• 2001 "Colors from Nature", Horev Center, Haifa.
• 2001 "Things that come from the Heart" (sculptures), Ramat Alon Park, Haifa.
• 2002 "Soul Bird", Holon.
• 2002 "Digital Zabar", Waddi Nisnass, Haifa.
• 2002 "No Favorite Color", 3 months Installation, Kassel, Germany.
• 2002 "Shalom On Israel", Rabin Building, Judaism Center, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
• 2003 "Blue Mermaid", Kiryat Yam, Haifa.

Exhibitions: SELECTED OTHER PROJECTS

• 1978-84 Illustrations for children's books
• 1991 Design of "Winged Paint-Tube", gift of the Israel Museum to its donors on the occasion of its 25th anniversary Designed object-sculpture for the exhibition
• 1993 "To Live in Jerusalem", Israel Museum, Jerusalem Curator of "Artist Fosters Artist" exhibition, Artists' House, Jerusalem
• 1994 Performance with Anat Shamgar (dance) and Jean Claude Jones (cello), Habama Theater One-year calendar for Flying Cargo (Fed-Ex) Company Illustrations for Ha'aretz and Kol Ha'ir newspapers
• 1996 Billboards for "American Express"
• 1997 Series of Brooches
• 2002 Objects created for "Doolittle Articles" Company.
• 2002 Renew of Brooches by "2Doo" Company.