Yair Garbuz born 1945, Giv'atayim, Israel Grotesque Nudes in Surreal Scenes, 1970s Original Hand-Signed Mixed Media & Collage Painting - circa the 1970s
Title: Grotesque nudes in surreal scenes, 1970s
Technique: Mixed media and collage on paper
Condition: Very good condition. Yair Garbuz, Israeli, multimedia artist, author
and filmmaker, born Givatayim, Israel, 1945. In 1962-1967, after serving in the Israel
Defense Forces and while a member of Kibbutz Kfar HaHoresh, he studied
painting at the Avni Institute and took private lessons with Israeli artist
Raffi Lavie. In his art, Garbuz moved from abstraction to
the use of collages incorporating photographs, texts, and various materials,
all serving to produce personal and social/cultural narratives. Yair Garbuz is a one-man cultural enterprise.
His oeuvre is so prolific, diversified, and influential that it cannot be
encapsulated in the scope of a short text. As well as a leading artist and
teacher, Garbuz is also a writer and a journalist, among the pioneers of
Israeli video art (If Not a Giant then at Least in His Garden, 1979),
and a well-known public figure. His painting has been described as "adept in the poetics of
loneliness, constantly lighting fires that signal from one mountaintop to the
next an ironic wish to belong. Yair Garbuz: Prize for an
Established Israeli Artist, 2015 Prof. Yair Garbuz describes himself as someone
“who is compelled to be a painter.” Although his work is spread across
different disciplines - art, theater, writing, teaching - his starting point is
painting. Over the years Garbuz has developed a unique painting language, which
is a cross between American pop art and local painting. His collage works look
like a “boxing ring” between opposing artistic styles and conflicting thoughts:
Paris and New York, abstract lyricism versus conceptual painting, Eastern and
Western elements, socio-political art alongside a personal creation. The figure
of the artist emerges occasionally from the painting: as an observer, a guide,
as a prophet or the village idiot, who conveys his story through different
voices and changing identities.
Many images are compressed painting, seemingly
without censoring or editing: the exposure of racism from within and without,
war, whims and desires. All of these are presented in the guise of quotations
from illustrations, old propaganda publications or copies of paintings by
Israeli artists who have been excluded or idealized. Thus, in a unique way,
Garbuz's work becomes an epic and historical creation, reflecting the split
identity of Israeli society, living in constant conflict between the desire to remember
and the urge to erase and forget. He held his first solo exhibition in 1967,
and since then has had dozens of solo exhibitions in galleries and museums and
participated in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. His paintings
can be found in museum collections in Israel and in many private collections.
Education Selected Solo Exhibitions 1967 Massada Gallery, Tel Aviv1974 "Yair
Garbuz: Paintings, Drawing", The Tel Aviv Museum1975 "Didactic
Art: New Works", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv1977 "New
Works", Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem "Selected Works on
Paper", Debel Gallery, Jerusalem1978 "Hebrew
Family Manuscripts", Hamidrasha School of Art, Ramat Hasharon; Gordon
Gallery, Tel Aviv1979 "If Not
a Giant, Then at Least in His Garden", Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv1980 "Early
Works", Tzavta Gallery, Tel Aviv "If Not a Giant, Then at
Least in His Garden", reconstructed exhibition, Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv "The Evenings (Arabs)
Pass By Quietly", Shenar Gallery, Tel Aviv1981 "Exhibition Toward the Publication
of the Book Ready Story Art", Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv "They Shut Down the Youth
Centers and Went to Make War", Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem1986 "Yair Garbuz Presents a Jew,
Frenchman and Arab: New Works", The Tel Aviv Museum1988 "Paris –
Tiberias", Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv1989 The Gallery
in Kibbutz Beeri1990 "Yair
Garbuz: Paintings", The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan1991 Beit Uri and
Rami Nehushtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaacov Meuchad "New Works", The
Gallery in Kibbutz Urim1993 "New
Paintings", The Open Museum, Industrial Park, Tefen "Buckets Shed Light on
Streams and Aching Hands Change Their Mind", Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Reconstruction of two
exhibitions: "If Not a Giant, Then at Least in His Garden" and "Didactic
Art", Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv "In the Forest", The
Study Gallery of the Art Department, University of Haifa1995 "Yair
Garbuz", Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv1996 "Léger,
Gauguin, Jews, and Scraps", The Municipal Gallery, Kfar Saba1998 "Works
on Paper", The Other Gallery, Talpiot College of Education, Tel Aviv "From the Series: Sad as
Songs", The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot2000 "Laugh
Guernica! Laugh!: Erich Kästner and the Third World", Givon Art Gallery,
Tel Aviv "Yair Garbuz / Yehiel
Krize – Two-Person Exhibition", The Art Institute Gallery, Oranim Academic
College "It Said: Danger of
Illustration, and Should Have Read: Horror", The Yavneh Art Workshop2001 "Europe
Will Not Teach Us…", Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv "Youth and Fire",
Florescent Gallery, Tel Aviv2003 "Carrying the Dead on Our
Shoulders: East-European Elements in Yair Garbuz's Work", The Artists House, Tel
Aviv2004 "From Afar You Shall See: Selected
Paintings", Forty Years of Work, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv2005 "Restoration" and "What
Does the Painter Care", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv "Garbuz and
Dorchin, The Joint Exhibition", The Art Gallery, University of Haifa
(cat.) "Yair Garbuz - Presents
Restoration", Beit Gabriel on the see of Galilee (Cat.)2006 "A Life of Rattle", the Open
Museum, Industrial Park, Tefen and Omer2008 "I Wrote
a New Painting", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv2010 "Before and After Ready
Meidale", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv2011 "Selected
Works from the Gallery Collection" on the occasion of launching the book
"Yair Garbuz: Ready Meidale", Published by Hamidrasha2012 "Small Works", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv "I Wish I Had a Better Solution", The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan 2015 "Best not to be Colored", Art Gallery- Memorial Center, Kiryat Tivon 2016 “I Am Painters”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 2018 “Paintings in Their Own Words”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv Selected Group Exhibitions 1967 Hakibbutz Layam Gallery, Tel Aviv
"10+ Group: Nude", Gordon
Gallery, Tel Aviv
1968 "The Autumn Salon", The Tel
Aviv Museum
"10+ Group: For and
Against", Gallery 220, Tel Aviv
1969 "The Autumn Salon", The Tel
Aviv Museum
"10+ Group: Circle",
Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1970 "10+ Group: 10+ on Venus",
Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1973 "Twelve
Original Prints by Israeli Artists", Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv
1976 "Four
Artists: Deganit Berest, Tamar Getter, Yair Garbuz, Raffi Lavie", Sara
Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
"Yair Garbuz – Henry
Shelesnyak", The Museum of Art, Ramat Gan
"Script in Plastic
Art", Artists House, Tel Aviv
"The Letter in Art",
traveling exhibition, Omanut La'am
1978 "Artist and Society in Israeli Art
1948-1978", The Tel Aviv Museum
1979 "New
Works", Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
"New Works", Sara
Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1980 "Exhibition
of Jewish and Arab Painters for Peace, Equality and Understanding",
Nazareth
"Borders", The
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1981 "The Camera as a Brush",
traveling exhibition, Omanut La'am
"Israeli Prints from
Burston Graphic Center", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1982 "A Tribute to Henry
Shelesnyak", Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Tel Aviv Artists in
Frankfurt", the Painters and Sculptors Association
"An Open Response to the
War: Gallery Artists and Guests", Radius Gallery, Tel Aviv
1983 "The First Triennial of Israeli
Graphic Art", Haifa Museum of Art
"The Biennial of Graphic
Art", Ljublijana, Yugoslavia
"Israeli Prints",
The Museum of Fine Art, Chile
1984 "The C.
Mayorkas Collection", The Gallery in Kibbutz Eilon; The Gallery in Kibbutz
Cabri;
The Gallery in
Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot; Bat Yam Museum of Art
"Art on Art", The
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
"Two Years, 1983-1984:
Israeli Art – Qualities Accumulated", The Tel Aviv Museum
1985 "Palestinian and Israeli Artists:
Against the Occupation and For Freedom of Speech", Tel Aviv,
Nazareth and Jerusalem
"Recent Acquisitions
1982-1985", Haifa Museum of Modern Art
"Milestones in Israeli
Art", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1986 "The Want of Matter: A Quality in
Israeli Art", The Tel Aviv Museum
1987 "Art and Language", The
Yavneh Art Workshop
"Seven Artists from
Israel", Galerie Palette, Zurich, Switzerland
"Artist-Format,
Format-Artist: Israeli Art in Big Format", The Museum of Israeli
Art,
Ramat Gan
1988 "Modern Drawing", Haifa
Museum of Modern Art
"Still Life and
Breathing", traveling exhibition, Omanut La'am
"Homage to the Family
Album", The Gallery of the Photography Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts
and Design, Jerusalem
"A People Builds Its
Land: Israeli History as Reflected in Art", Herzliya Museum
1989 "Garbuz / Zinovich", The
Gallery in Kibbutz Eilon
"Political Art in
Israel", The Jewish Museum, New York
1967 "The
Americanization of Israeli Art", Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
1990 "Health
and Long Life: Humor in Israeli Art", traveling exhibition, Omanut La'am
"Political Signs,
1967-82", Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
"Drawing: Beyond",
Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Ten Years of
Acquisitions", Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1991 "Israeli
Art Now: An Extensive Presentation", Tel Aviv Museum of Art
"Text-Image",
Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod; The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot; The Municipal Gallery, Kfar
Saba
1992 "The
Artist's Choice: An Exhibition of Bad Works", The Artists Studios, Tel
Aviv
"Concept", Bograshov
Gallery, Tel Aviv
1993 "Seamline:
Political Art", The Corine Maman Ashdod Museum; The Art Gallery,
University
of Haifa; Yad Labanim
Museum, Petach Tikva
"Eye Contact" (with
Yaacov Dorchin and Raffi Lavie), Artists Studios, Tel Aviv
"Paintings from the Givon
Art Gallery Collection", Galerie Asperger, Strasbourg
"My Heart is in the
East", Artists Studios – Pyramid Gallery, Haifa
1994 "Giantdwarf",
The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot
"The Raffi Lavie
Collection", Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Who Can Tell the Mighty
Acts of Israel", Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
1995 "4/4:
Four Artists, New Paintings", Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1996 "Henry Shelesnyak, Yair Garbuz:
Two Friends, Unknown Works", Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv
1997 "Hamidrasha: The Midrasha School
Exhibition", The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
1998 "Perspectives on Israeli Art of
the Seventies", Tel Aviv Museum of Art
"90 Years of Israeli Art:
A Selection from the Joseph Hackmey – Israel
Phoenix Collection", Tel Aviv Museum of Art
"Hebrew Work: The
Disregarded Gaze in the Canon of Israeli Art", Mishkan Le'Omanut, Museum
of Art, Ein Harod; traveling exhibition, the Israeli Forum of Art Museums
"Positive Representations
of the Other in Contemporary Israeli Art", Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod; Bat
Yam Museum; Ashdod Museum; Municipal Art Gallery, Arad; Wilfrid Israel Museum,
Kibbutz Hazorea
1999 "Not to be Looked At: Unseen Sites
in Israel Today", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
"About Raffi",
Hamidrasha Gallery in Tel Aviv – Nophar Gallery, Tel Aviv
2001 "Storytellers", Peer –
Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
2002 "Focus
on Painting", Haifa Museum of Art
"Imagine: Artists for
Co-Existence", The Art Gallery, Um el-Fahem; Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel
Aviv
"It Said: Danger of
Illustration, and Should Have Read: Horror", Goren Art Gallery, The
Max Stern Academic
College of Emek Yezreel, Jezreel Valley
2003 "The Return to Zion: Beyond the
Place Principle", Time for Art – Center for Art, Tel Aviv
"Collectorship", a
series of exhibitions from the Benno Kalev Collection, The Art Gallery, Memorial
Center Kiryat Tivon; Bat Yam Museum; The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot
2004 "The Ashkenazim", Hamidrasha
Gallery in Tel Aviv
"A Point of View",
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
"Homage to Hanoch
Levin", Haifa Museum of Art
"Video Zero, Towards
Cinema", an exhibition of video-art and artists' films, Haifa Museum of
Art
2005 "To be Looked at with One Eye,
Close To…", Ashdod Art Museum
2012 "After", Gordon
Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013 "Summer
Exhibition", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 "Paper-Photography:
Works on paper and Photographs from the 1970's", Gordon Gallery 2, Tel
Aviv
2015 "Charred. Rusted.
Drawings.", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017 “Ingathering” 10th
Anniversary to The Rappaport Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.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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