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Pinchas Cohen Gan born 1942, Meknes, Morocco Moroccan Scene With Figures in Kaftan and Palm tree, New York, 1975 Original Hand-Signed Oil Painting - Dated 1975 Artist Name: Pinchas Cohen Gan Title: Moroccan scene with figures wearing kaftan and palm tree
Condition: Very good condition Pinchas Cohen Gan, an Israeli artist, sculptor, and
mixed-media artist, born in 1942, in Meknes, Morocco. In
1949 he immigrated to Israel. During the 1970s Gan created a number of installations and other conceptual
activities, among them "The Dead Sea Project," "Touching the
Border," and activities in refugee camps in Jericho which combined the
social, political, and ecological dimensions of art. In 1975,
Gan returned to painting and drawing, often employing faceless figures as
symbols in a non-specific space. From the end of the 1980s Cohen Gan's works concentrate on images of man and on
his anonymity, described in philosophical and Ars Poetica terms. These works
use a combination of different techniques and are in an expressive style. Many
of Cohen Gan's works are parts of large series of works, and in them and
different variations on them, we see both formal and ideological themes
together. Education 1967-70 Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, advanced studies Teaching Awards and Prizes 1978 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Solo Exhibitions: 2015 Pinchas Cohen Gan - New Work 2011 –
2015, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 2012 When My Redemption Comes, I Shall Treasure My
Tears, Works, 1970–2012, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2008 Solo Exhibition, Givon Art Gallery, Tel
Aviv 2006 Pinchas Cohen Gan - Solo Exhibition, Oranim
- Art Institute Gallery, Tivon 2002 Didactic Exhibition - Histories between East
and West, Morel Derfler Gallery, Musrara - The Naggar School of
Photography, Media and New Music, Jerusalem 2001 Installation, Kibbutz Nirim Dairy farming 1999 100 Works, 10 Series, 1993-1999, Tel Aviv
Artists' Studios Blind obedience to an
immoral duty, Minerva - Bar Gallery, Tel Aviv 1996 ''The New Literacy'', 1996, Haifa Museum of
Art Figure, Form, Formula,
The art of Pinchas Cohen Gan, The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro Works 1988-1995, Givon
Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 1994 Image, Shape, Formula 1994, Gallery of Art, Haifa University Pinchas Cohen-Gan -
B12, Works signed on 1994, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 1993 Israeli Contemporary Prints, Japan,
Overseas exhibition Religious Exhibition
''Them'' and ''us'', Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv 1992 Paper Works from the Museum Collection, Museum
for Modern Art, Haifa 1990 Anafranil 25mg - New Works 1990, Chelouche
Gallery for Contemporary Art 1989 1000 Years of Grief and Grace: Paintings 1989, Gallery
Gimel (new), Jerusalem The Forth World, Gallery
Gimel (new), Jerusalem 1988 Pinchas Cohen Gan: Prints 1968-1988, The
Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan 1987 Picto-ideo-phonographic Paintings, From the
Tears Bank 1987, Gallery Gimel Ten Commandments
(Decalogue), Maimad Visual Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Prints, Meimad
Katan, Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 1986 Prints: Israel 1986, Gallery Gimel Plus, Jerusalem A Talking Role, Maimad Visual Art
Gallery, Tel Aviv 1985 Homeland B, A Painting Model, Gallery
Gimel, Jerusalem The fifteenth
District: Chapters on Public Heads, Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv Mtaformal Art, Tatrama
Gallery, Tel Aviv 1984 Pinchas Cohen Gan 1973-1983, Works on Paper,
Gallery Gimel, Jerusalem Prints, Mishkan Le'omanut, Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod 1983 Pinchas Cohen Gan 1983, Haifa Museum of
Art, Haifa 1981 Inland painting; Outland painting; Badland
painting, Gallery Gimel, Jerusalem 1978 Pinchas Cohen Gan, Max Protech Gallery, New
York, USA Spatial Propositions, Gallery
Gimel, Jerusalem 1976 Whay I Do Not Exist, Columbia University,
Dodge Building, New York, USA 1974 Pinchas Cohen Gan: Activities 1972-1974,
Israel Museum, Jerusalem Action in Jerico Camp, Refugee camp in north-east part of the Jerico, adjacent to Hisham Palace 1972 Drawings, Dugith Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Exhibition of Etchings in the barn of Kibbutz Nirim. Selected Group Exhibitions 2017 Off the Record: Works from the Nava and
Ronnie Dissentshik Collection, Israel Museum Instruction Manual, The
Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon The Group Show, Givon
Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Dead End: Selected
Works from the Museum Collections, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2016 Israeli Modernism in the 1970s: from the
Collection of the Haifa Museum of Art (Dis)Place, Ashdod
Art Museum, Monart Center Color Separation, Basis
School of Arts, Herzliya Pituach 2015 BEUYS, BEUYS ,BEUYS, Sapir Academic College 2014 Nehushtan, Chelouche Gallery for
Contemporary Art Broken Beads,
Contemporary Artist on Their Moroccan Identity, Senate Gallery, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 2013 Curator: Yona Fischer, Ashdod Art Museum,
Monart Center 2012 Critically Correct / Power Misused, Givon
Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Group Exhibition from the Gallery
Collection, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Local Color: Art from
the Helela Tal collection, The Negev Museum of Art, Be'er Sheva 2011 THE MUSEUM PRESENTS ITSELF-Israeli Art from the
Museum Collection, Tel Aviv Art Museum Israeli Avant-Garde in
its Cradle- Part 1, Ashdod Art Museum, Monart Cente 2010 father's friends, Vertigo Village, Kibbutz
Netiv Halamed Heh 2009 Dreary Structures, Dreamy Structures, Ashdod Art Museum, Monart Center Four Openings in
Israeli Art, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv 2008 The Case of Michael Rohan, Har-El Printers
& Publishers, Jaffa In memory - Hanoch Levin,
Tal Gallery, Kfar Vradim Decathlon: Six decades
of Art in Israel from The Givon Gallery Collection, Givon Art Gallery My Own Body, Art in
Israel 1968 – 1978, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Near and Apparant,
Connections and Contexts, A Selection from the Benno Kalev Collection, Open Museum, Tefen Check-Post, Art in
Israel in the 1980s, Haifa Museum of Art 2007 The Other Sea, Artists' House, Jerusalem 2005 Prizes in Art from the Ministry of Education,
Culture and Sport: 2005, Israel Museum Yona a Bezalel, Premier
Volet: années 60 at 70, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv 2003 In Memory - Hanoch Levin, The Cameri
Theatre of Tel Aviv 2002 Group Exhibition, Time for Art - Center for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv 2001 localities.il - Israeli Art from the
Collection and Elsewhere, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2001 Love at First Sight: The Vera and Arturo Schwarz
Collection of Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2000 Ladies and Gentlemen - Contemporary
Israelli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1999 Summer Harvest - Israeli Art from the Israel Museum
Collection and Elsewhere, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1998 National Home to Dream House, Israel 1948-1998, Israel
Museum, Jerusalem The Boundaries of Language,
Perspectives on Israeli Art of the Seventies, Tel Aviv Art Museum The Eyes of The Nation:
Visual Art in a Borderless State, Tel Aviv Art Museum Bamot - Über die
Erstellung: Zerschlagung und Restaurierung von Höhenheiligtümern, Israel
1948-1998, Jewish Museum Vienna, Austria 1997 Painting on Non-Regular Surface, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 1996 Desert Cliche, Israel Now - Local Images, Arad
Museum 1995 Between Sculpture and Drawing, Yad Labanim Museum, Petach-Tikva 1994 Re Versal - Works from the last 20 years Gimmel
Gallery, Gimmel at Mishkenot Art Gallery, Jerusalem 1994 Art Focus - A Hall of Mirrors, New Art Studio,
Rishon Le Zion 1988 Into the Mainstream: Israeli Art in California
Collections, Magnes Museum, Berkeley, USA 1987 Israeli Exhibition, Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil 1986 The Hot and the Cool in Israel Art: the
''Cool'', Haifa Museum of Modern Art 1981 Israeli Prints from the Burston Graphic Center,
Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1978 Location/Direction 78, Beit Uri and Rami Nehushtan
Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov 1973 Group Exhibition, Yodfat Gallery, Tel Aviv 1972 From Landscape to Abstraction, From Abstraction to Nature, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
The paintings, sculpture, artist’s books and
documentation of project and journeys featured in Pinchas Cohen Gan’s
retrospective, newly opened at Tel Aviv Museum, represent only a small portion
of his work and an intense career that began in New York in the 1970s and
continues strongly to this day. Not that the gallery space is so limited, but
because his output coupled with the intellectual effort he puts into his work
is unmatched among Israeli artists. Figure, Form, Formula, 1976, ink, pencil and
acrylic on paper, collection of Tel Aviv Museum of Art Yet anyone unfamiliar with Cohen Gan’s work may
well have a rough passage navigating an exhibition in which minimalistic
structures are integrated with philosophical ideas, language, and maths, and
art formulated as a science. Consequently, if one wants to keep afloat, it
might be best to locate and hang on to Cohen’s signature image, a schematic
figure of Everyman – and pursue its manifestations throughout this complex
show. Early on, this tiny figure surfaces, set against an
empty monochromatic field, or, as in one case, stands on a tilted circle within
a landscape comprising only a tree and a geometric structure. Anxiety as well
as vulnerability is expressed through ink paintings from1982 inspired by the
War in Lebanon; while ten years later, Everyman has become a victim. In black
drawings produced for an International Art Biennale in Istanbul where the artist
chose to memorialize Jewish communities that perished during the Holocaust, he
drags a huge black star, or else his body is reduced to a head on a stick. In
recent years, this figure has become part of bold, three dimensional wall works
in painted wood, many of them carrying carry socio-political messages that are
not always crystal clear. As, for example, in a piece entitled Art and
Language (1997) where Everyman, encircled by strips of wood, is
either engaged in a balancing act, or attempting to punch his way out. This exhibition, curated by Galia Bar Or, is
accompanied by an illustrated catalog and by a book documenting all Cohen Gan’s
activities, objects, and concepts. Main building, Tel Aviv Museum, 27 Shaul Hamelech Bvd, Tel Aviv. Payment Methods: PayPal, Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard), Bank Cheque. If you wish to send a personal cheque, please note that the item will not be shipped until the cheque clears. Shipping&Handling: All items are sent through registered mail or by EMS - Fast delivery service, both operated by the Israel Post (up to 4-5 business days), depends on the weight and measures of the purchased item. You may add insurance for the item with an additional fee. Please e-mail us for other shipping methods. In case that the frame includes a glass, the item will be shipped without the glass in order to prevent any damage to the artwork caused by broken glass: be aware that such kind of a damage is not covered by the insurance!
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