Litvak Contemporary Collection- Selected Works

Contemporary Gallery Collection Daniel Enkaoua

Litvak Contemporary Collection Litvak Gallery is please to present in this catalogue selected works by the following artists: Elad Kopler Itamar Freed Michele Bubacco Ofer Lellouche Tsibi Geva Daniella Sheinman Peleg Dishon Vadim Stepanov

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Elad Kopler Elad Kopler (born 1974). Kopler lives and works in Tel-Aviv. His work has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions worldwide including the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv; Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa; Petach Tikva Museum of Art; The Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv; Habres & Partner, Vienna; VOLTA13 Basel Art Fair 2017, Basel; and VOLTA NY Art Fair 2016, New York.

Kopler received his B.Ed. from Hamidrasha School of Art, Biet Berl in 2004 and graduated with distinction from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, MFA program, in Jerusalem, in 2006.

Kopler has been the recipient of many awards and recognitions, amongst them are the Award Scholarship, Hamidrasha School of Art Beit Berl College; Award for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art Design; America-Israel Cultural Foundation; Young Artist Award, Ministry of Science Culture & Sport; and the Rappaport Prize for Young Painter, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Kopler’s works are included in major public and private collections worldwide among them the Collection of Tel Aviv Museum for Contemporary Art (Israel); The Collection of Petach Tikvah Musuem for Contemporary Art (Israel); Bank Ha’poalim Collection (Israel); Philip Hofer Collection, NY (USA); Sam & Yael Bacharach, NY (USA); and numerous private collections.

Untitled VI (Leftovers), 2014 Mixed technique on canvas 44 7/8 x 79 7/8 in.

Untitled II (Leftovers), 2014 Mixed technique on canvas 52 3/8 x 74 3/4 in.

Untitled IV(Leftovers), Diptych 2014 Mixed technique on canvas 70 7/8 x 157 1/2 in.

Untitled IV(Leftovers), Diptych 2014 Mixed technique on canvas 70 7/8 x 157 1/2 in.

Untitled, 2015 Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas 56 1/4 x 48 3/16 in.

Untitled, 2015 Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas 71 1/16 x 56 1/16 in.

Untitled, 2015 Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas 78 11/16 x 59 13/16 in.

Untitled, 2015 Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas 64 15/16 x 66 7/8 in.

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 70 13/16 x 78 11/16 in.

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 66 7/8 x 78 11/16 in.

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 20 7/16 x 36 3/16 in.

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 50 3/8 x 62 15/16 in.

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 62 15/16 x 50 3/8 in.

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 58 1/4 x 40 1/2 in.

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 70 1/16 x 62 15/16 in.

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 51 1/8 x 39 5/16 in.

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 47 3/16 x 31 7/16 in.

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 62 15/16 x 49 9/16 in.

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 70 1/16 x 56 1/4 in.

Elad Kopler, 2017, Installation image

Untitled, 2017 Acrylic on canvas 74 3/4 x 86 1/2 in.

Itamar Freed Itamar Freed (born 1987). Freed is an international artist working in Israel, UK and Australia. Freed’s work has been showcased in solo exhibitions at the Ramat-Gan Museum of Art, Israel; Litvak Contemporary in Tel Aviv and VOLTA NY Art Fair 2017, New York. In addition his works were also shown in group exhibitions worldwide including - “NordArt 2016” and “NordArt 2018”, International Art Exhibition, Büdelsdorf, Germany, Pulse, Miami 2018, Edinburgh Prints, Edinburough, Musrara Gallery, Jerusalem, the Bezalel Gallery, Jerusalem etc.

Freed received his B.F.A from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 2012. He received his M.F.A from the Royal College of Arts, Photography Program, London in 2018.

Freed has been the recipient of the 2016 Clore - Bezalel Scholarship & a full Grant for a Master’s degree at the Royal College of Arts, London and the 2012 “EPSON” first prize for excellence in the art of photography.

Freed’s works are included in private and public collections worldwide among them the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Collection, USA, The Estee Lauder art collection, USA, The J.P. Morgan art collection, the US State Department Collection and the Clore Collection, London, UK.

Itamar Freed, Starry Night, 2017 Inkjet pigment print on archival paper 47 1/8 x 70 3/4 in.

Itamar Freed, Milky Way, 2017 Inkjet pigment print on archival paper 47 1/8 x 70 3/4 in.

Itamar Freed, Girl II, 2016 Inkjet print on archival paper 65 x 43 1/4 in.

Itamar Freed, Golden Wreath Wattle, 2015 Inkjet print on archival paper 43 1/4 x 65 in.

Itamar Freed, Pawpaw Tree, 2020 Inkjet print on archival paper 43 1/4 x 29 1/2 in.

Itamar Freed, Orange Tree and Rainbow Lorikeets, 2020 Inkjet print on archival paper 43 1/4 x 29 1/2 in.

Itamar Freed, Installation Image

Itamar Freed, Blue Flowers 2017, Inkjet print on archival paper 35 3/8 x 23 1/2 in.

Itamar Freed, Peacock 2017, Inkjet print on archival paper 43 1/4 x 54 in.

Itamar Freed, Burning Tree, 2016, Inkjet print on archival paper 65 x 43 1/4 in.

Itamar Freed, Kew Gardens, 2020 Inkjet pigment print on archival paper Each part 43 1/4 x 22 3/8 in.

Itamar Freed, Red Flowers, 2016 Inkjet pigment print on archival paper 40 7/8 x 27 1/2 in.

Michele Bubacco Michele bubbaco - Born in Venice, Italy in 1983, Bubacco currently lives and works between Vienna (Austria) and Venice (Italy). He is the son of the famous Murano glass artist, Lucio Bubacco, under whom he first learned his craft.

From 2002 to 2004 he studied painting in Venice under Alessandro Rossi. In 2011 he presented his monumental painting Crimson Orchestra during the Venice Biennale.

Bubacco’s work has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions; in museums and galleries around the world including the Chemnitz Museum of Art, Chemnitz (Germany), Stadgalerie Kiel Museum of Art, Kiel (Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (Italy), Louis B James Gallery, New York City (USA), David Richard gallery, Santa Fe (USA), and Rompone galerie, Cologne (Germany).

His exhibitions were reviewed in The Modern Painters Magazine, USA, ArtInfo, USA, Document Journal, USA, by Kathy Battista, Director of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and the Kurier, Austria.

Michele Bubacco, Untitled I ,Waiting for the Sun Series, 2014 Pigment print 78 5/8 x 55 7/8 in.

Michele Bubacco, Untitled II ,Waiting for the Sun Series, 2014 Pigment print 78 5/8 x 55 7/8 in.

Michele Bubacco, Untitled IV ,Waiting for the Sun Series, 2014 Pigment print 78 5/8 x 55 7/8 in.

< Michele Bubacco, Bellini, 2020

Oil and printed poster on wood 66 7/8 x 51 1/8 in.

Michele Bubacco, Prova d´orchestra, 2020 Oil on LP cover 12 1/8 x 12 1/8 in.

< Michele Bubacco, In the ass of the whale, 2020 Oil and printed poster on wood 66 7/8 x 51 1/8 in.

Michele Bubacco, Prova d´orchestra, 2020 Oil on LP cover 12 1/8 x 12 1/8 in.

< Michele Bubacco, Posta, 2020

Oil, printed paper and painted wood on wood 59 x 43 1/4 in.

Ofer Lellouche Ofer Lellouche (b.1947) in Tunisia, lives and works in Tel Aviv and Paris. His work has been exhibited at world-renowned museums; including the Gulbenkian Museum of Modern Art in Lisbon, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art the Israel Museum Jerusalem, the CAFA Museum in Beijing, the Hymalayas Museum in Shanghai, and the Albertina Museum Vienna.

His works can be found in public and private collections worldwide such as at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, the Israel Museum, Israel, and the Himalaya Museum, China etc.

Although he began his artistic career in the 1970s by concentrating on video art, Ofer Lellouche soon felt a need to “get back to basics”: painting. For many years, the painted self-portrait was his consuming passion.

Lellouche later branched out to landscapes, the still life, and the nude model. Most recently, this versatile artist has focused on sculpture.

Ofer Lellouche has also published theoretical treatises, including “Reflections on Narcissism”, “The Nude Descending a Staircase”, “Numbers: Thoughts on Diane Michener’s Photography”, and “The Wedding of Narcissus and Echo”.

Ofer Lellouche, Reclining Woman, 2015 Bronze 17 5/8 x 106 1/4 x 17 5/8 in.

Tsibi Geva Tsibi Geva is one of Israel’s most prominent and influential artists. Born in 1951 in Kibbutz Ein Shemer, Israel, Geva lives and works in Tel Aviv and New York.

Since 1979 he has exhibited extensively worldwide. Solo exhibitions include the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1984); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1985); Tel Aviv Museum (1988); Haifa Museum, Haifa (2003); Tel Aviv Museum (2008); The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC (2013); MACRO Testaccio, Rome (2014) and Mönchenhaus – Museum of Modern Art, Goslar (2015). His participation in international group exhibitions include the Kunsthaus Zürich Orangerie Herrenhausen, Hannover (1989); The Jewish Museum, NY (1989),Whitebox, New York (2013); Palazzo Reale, Milan (2006); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2005); El Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba (1998); The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2012); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2016); Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (2010), Dehallen Belfort, Bruges Belgium (2006), and CCA Andratx, Mallorca (2010).

In 2015 Geva was elected to represent Israel at the 56th Venice Biennale, creating the Israeli Pavilion.

Geva is a professor at the School of Visual Arts, MFA program, the University of Haifa, and Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Sandberg Prize from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Mendel and Eva Pundik Foundation Prize from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture.

Tsibi Geva, Balata, 2001 Acrylic on canvas 70 x 70 in.

Tsibi Geva, Olive Tree, 2010 Acrylic, oil and collage on canvas 94 3/8 x 70 in.

Tsibi Geva, The crow from Rembrandt street, 2012 Acrylic on canvas 59 x 78 5/8 in.

Tsibi Geva, Untitled, 2013 Mixed media on canvas 70 x 47 1/8 in.

Daniella Sheinman Israeli artist Daniella Sheinman (b. 1947) engages in painting and installation. Sheinman studied painting and sculpture at the Avni Art Institute, Tel Aviv 1972 - 1975.

In the early 1990’s Sheinman shifted to mixed media, working in pencil and graphite on canvas. These paintings were exhibited in 1994 at the Haifa Museum of Modern Art. Later Sheinman staged a large-scale installation at the Bayerische Vereinsbank, Frankfurt, Germany. The exhibition consisted of canvas scrolls whose total length amounted to some 60 meters, bearing scores of paintings. Alongside the canvas scrolls she installed wooden bars, and at the center of the structure - a sculpture made of canvas dipped in plaster reminiscent of a mummy. The installation addressed the boundaries of man’s external and internal spaces and later travelled to Sotheby’s House, Tel Aviv, and in 1999 it was presented at the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany alongside a painting exhibition entitled Variations on Botticelli’s Venus.

Sheinman’s unique language is the result of a painting technique that originates in sketches on small paper sheets akin to work plans and are subsequently transferred to large canvases. These paintings were featured in Sheinman’s solo exhibition at the Ramat Gan, Museum of Art. Sheinman’s works can be found in various public collections such as the Meir Nitzan Performing Arts Center, Israel, the Sheba Medical Center, Israel and the lobby of the NYC Plaza Hotel, USA. .

Daniella Sheinman, Untitled (Venus), 2009 Graphite on canvas 52 3/8 x 57 1/8 in.

Daniella Sheinman, Installation image New York Plaza

Daniella Sheinman, Installation image New York Plaza

Daniella Sheinman, Untitled, 2012 Graphite on canvas 49 1/4 x 43 1/4 in.

Peleg Dishon Born in 1979 in Israel. Dishon currently lives and works in Tel-Aviv. He graduated with honors from the Hamidrasha - School of Art, Beit Berl Collage, Israel. Dishon specializes in New Media and his work explores the material presence of light in a given space.

Dishon’s unique images are created by exposing a paper cutout to the light of a scanner. By blocking the light or allowing it through, the flat paper’s function is to create and sustain a dichotomy of void and substance. The final outcome is inter-medial, and lays somewhere between the realms of photography, drawing, and sculpture. It has no volume or surface, no time and no set place. It exists in the metaphysical space where the alien and the familiar, the obvious and the hidden cannot be clearly defined.

Since his graduation in 2009, Dishon has exhibited at Circle 1 Gallery, Berlin; Jerusalem Artists House, Jerusalem; Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Petah Tikva; , Erez Israel Museum, Tel Aviv ; NIMAC Art Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus; Art Beijing, Beijing; and Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel- Aviv.

He has been the recipient of several awards: Miron Sima Visual Arts Award (2012); AICF Scholarship for Excellency in Art (2010); Award for Excellence in Art, Hamidrasha, Israel (2009).

Dishon’s works are in private and public collections including the Israel Museum Collection, Jerusalem; The SIP Collection, Shpilman Institute for photography, Tel Aviv; Ha’poalim Bank Collection, Israel; Petch Tikva Museum Collection, Petach Tikva; and START Collection, Serge Tiroche, Jaffa.

Peleg Dishon, Blue Blinder, 2011 Light Box- Scanned paper cutout 47 1/4 x 63 in.

Vadim Stepanov

Vadim Stepanov was born in 1969, in the former Soviet Union. In the age of 16 he started to work as an apprentice in Leonid purygin’s studio in Moscow. In 1991, Stepanov immigrated to Israel and became a prominent artist.

His exceptional use of wood and choice of palette along with his unique painterly technique and mastery of the brush make this fascinating artist a unique phenomenon in the local art world. Stepanov’s strive for perfection in every brush stroke is instantly recognized and is apparent in his drawings and sculptures alike.

The themes used in Stepanov’s work are all foreign to the Israeli ethos. By using Russian icons, Christian and North European pagan mythologies, he manages to create an inner world, where fantasy and reality become one. A world of dreams and nightmares in which forms seem to flicker and change before our eyes.

Stepanov in his work gives us a glimpse to his own self conscious and while some of his work may seem humoristic to some viewers it holds certain observations of the surrounding world and brings to mind the artist’s own misgivings. The central figures occupying his works are usually animals dressed in colorful fabrics surrounded by small naked figures occupied in numerous activities, bringing to mind Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. The scenery in Stepanov’s drawings is usually inspired by landscapes from his childhood memories from Russia.

Vadim Stepanov, Defender of the Magic Forest (Pinocchio), 2013 Oil on plywood 67 3/4 x 47 1/4 in.

Vadim Stepanov, Protector of the Magic Forest (Pinocchio), 2013 Oil on plywood 67 3/4 x 47 1/4 in.

Vadim Stepanov- Installation image