Elad Kopler VOLTA 2016 Catalogue

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Litvak Contemporary and Tamar Dresdner Art Projects are pleased to present in this catalog, works by Israeli artist Elad Kopler which will be on view at Volta NY 2016.

About the Artist Born in 1974 in Ramat Gan, Israel, Elad Kopler received his B.Ed. from Hamidrasha School of Art, Biet Berl in 2004 and graduated with honors from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design MFA program, in Jerusalem, in 2006.

Kopler’s paintings feature urban landscapes that appear to have been severely damaged or partially destroyed. The desolate, vertical and horizontal outlines of buildings assimilated into vestiges of nature, point to traces of a lost culture. Various architectural forms - such as a geodesic dome reminiscent of an ecological structure, or a series of concrete pools - inhabit the same rocky, empty landscape; the mountaintop on the horizon is marked by the memory of a structure - a temple or an observatory. These compositions, which cannot be encompassed at a single glance, allude to the history of landscape painting. Yet whereas in Romantic painting the sublime is associated with a sense of awe, in these images its presence provokes instead a sense of anxiety. The fictional expanse created by Kopler appears to include the figure of a gatherer, who has taken upon himself to preserve the vestiges of a lost culture. These paintings allude to the possibility that following its destruction, the remnants of our culture will become exotic archeological artifacts to be studied by future unknown cultures.

Kopler was the recipient of many awards and recognitions, amongst them: The Young Artist Award, Ministry of Science Culture & Sport; Rappaport Prize for Young Israeli Painter; Award for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art Design; America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award. His work has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions including the Tel Aviv Museum, of Art (solo exhibition); Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa; Petach Tikva Museum of Art; Litvak Contemporary, Tel Aviv; Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv; Habres & Partner, Vienna; and Biet Berl Academic College Gallery, Tel Aviv. Kopler’s works are kept in collections worldwide including the Bank Ha’poalim Collection (Israel); Philip Hofer Collection, NY (USA); Sam & Yael Bacharach, NY (USA); and numerous private collections.

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Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 63x50 inches For inquiries please click here

Untitled, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 63x49.5 inches For inquiries please click here

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 20.5x36 inches For inquiries please click here

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 51x39 inches For inquiries please click here

Untitled, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 70x56 inches For inquiries please click here

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 50x63 inches For inquiries please click here

Untitled, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 67x79 inches For inquiries please click here

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 47x31.5 inches For inquiries please click here

Untitled, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 70x63 inches For inquiries please click here

Untitled, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 71x79 inches For inquiries please click here

Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 58x40.5 inches For inquiries please click here

Elad Kopler Born in Ramat Gan, Israel, 1974. Lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Education

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005-2006 M.A., Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Tel Aviv

2016

2000-2004 B.E.D., Hamidrasha School of Art, Biet Berl Academic College

Druchim, Alma Center for the Arts, Zichron Yaakov, Israel; curator: Sarit Shapira

1997-1998 Architecture and Design, Ort, Tel Aviv

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2014

Eminent Domain, Feinberg Projects, Tel Aviv

2013

Elad Kopler: Temperatures, Rappaport Prize for a Young

Tishaa Ktarim, Soka Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Orly Dvir 2015

No Man’s Land, The Artists’ Studio, Tel Aviv; curator: Vered Gani “Artist Room” Project, Artplus Hotel, Tel Aviv; curator: Dana Golan

2009

Dark Matter, Litvak Contemporary, Tel Aviv; curators: Howard Rutkowski, Mary Dinaburg 2014

Select Art Fair, Miami Art Week

2012

Other Space, Feinberg Projects, Tel Aviv

2011

The Coming Community, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa; curators: Yeela Hazut, Lee Veinberg

Black Clouds, Habres + Partner Gallery, Vienna

Placing Time, Theatrical Exhibition in the Public Space; curators: Yael Tsabari, Hila Cohen Schneiderman

After the Heat Wave, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv 2008

Twilight, Biet Berl Academic College Gallery, curatorial team guided by David Ginaton Ship of Fools, Kibbutz Be’eri Gallery, Kibbutz Be’eri; curator: Ziva Yelin

2007

When Despair Becomes Plausible, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv Passages, Hamidrasha Gallery, Biet Berl Academic College

Mehilot, Beit Kaner Gallery, Rishon Le’Zion, Israel; curator: Galit Semel Akhshav: Contemporary Israeli Painting, Stein Rose Fine Arts, NY

Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; curator: Tal Lanir (catalogue) 2011

Modernism 2016, Rosenbach Contemporary, Jerusalem; curator: Nogah Davidson

2010

International Sculpture Triennial, Poznan, Poland

2009

Crisis of the Genre, International Sculpture triennial, Poznan, Poland

2008

Postpop, Israeli Cartoon Museum, Holon; curator: Yuval Caspi (catalogue) In Silence, Rothschild Gallery 69, Tel Aviv; curator: Noam Segal Young Artist Award Winner Exhibition, Haifa Museum of Art; curators: Tami Katz-Freiman, Tal Yahas

Etchings, Scratches and Scars, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel; curator: Drorit Gur Arie

Scholarships and Awards 2012

Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum

NOIR, Bienth Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Ben Zur

2007

Young Artist Award, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport

Secret Art, Bank Hapoalim, Tel Aviv

2006

Award for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art Design

White, Tavi Dresdner Gallery; Tel Aviv

2007

Under the Sun, Gilit Fisher Gallery, Tel Aviv By the Way, The Heder Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv 7 Sculptures, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv Above and Beyond, The Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Avivv 2006

Shoshelet, (Dynasty), Sapir College, Sderot, Israel 100 Years of Bezalel Art Academy, Ben Gurion Airport Graduate’s Program exhibition, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv Bezalel-Glasgow, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv

Bezalel in Istanbul, Istanbul Biennial 2005

Artik 7, America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award Winners, Ramat-Gan Museum (catalogue)

Summer Exhibition, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv 2004

Graduates Exhibition, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl, Israel

2003

Wounded, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv

2002

A Day Will Come: Artists for Arab– Israeli Coexistence, Umm El-Fahm Gallery- Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

2005-2007 America-Israel Cultural Foundation 2004

Excellence Award Scholarship, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College

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