Nir Alon
Nir Alon (* 1964) is an Israeli sculptor and an installation artist. Alon studied from 1988 until 1992 at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. In 1996 he received the price for young artists of the Israeli Ministry for education and Culture. In 1998 he participated in an exchange exhibition in Hamburg. In 2001 he received a working scholarship as a guest artist to Hamburg - Harburg. Since then he works and lives in Hamburg. He had single exhibitions in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Schwerin, Bonn, Mannheim,Frankfurt and Hamburg (Kampnagel 2005).He preferably develops his sculptures from cast-off everyday life articles such as furniture, suit-cases, lamps, light bulbs and cables, whereby the installations are arranged directly at the place of exhibition and in the reference to these. Thus it obtains an urgent effect with most economical means. His works are in public and private collections in Germany, Israel, Italy and USA.[1]
Selected Exhibitions/Installations
- Cultural tracks-Trivial traps, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, 1993
- Very delicate foundations, Kidmat-Eden-Gallery, Tel Aviv, 1994
- Correct posture, Gross-Gallery, Tel-Aviv, 1996
- Game of suppositions and refutations, Nachshon Gallery, Nachshon, 1996
- Sample of pervert imitation, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv, 1997[2]
- Installation, Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, Schwerin, 2001
- Operant Conditioning (Show), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, 2002
- A state of being present, Installation, Hamburg 2003
- Tell me about love, Installation, Kunsttreppe Hamburg 2004
- Ostentatiously stagger (guest), Atelierhaus Bonn, 2004
- Ein Tag, ein Raum, ein Bild - Special show, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, 2004
- Tell me about love (part II), Installation, Westwerk Hamburg, 2004[3]
- An installation kit for a wanderer artist (Guest), Hamburg 2004
- A funny game (Melancholy), Kampnagel Hamburg, 2005
- In case of leftovers, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, 2005[4]
- “This way or another” – Kunstverein Buchholz.
- Etwas Grosses wird geschehen, Appel Gallery, Frankfurt, 2006[5]
- Zeichnungen nach Installation, Magnus P. Gerdsen Gallery, Hamburg, 2006
References
- ^ http://www.imj.org.il/artcenter/sname2_a.asp?artist=6241&list=A
- ^ http://www.chelouchegallery.com
- ^ http://www.westwerk-hamburg.de/History/2004/Nir_Alon/niralon.html
- ^ http://www.fath-contemporary.de
- ^ http://www.galerie-appel.de/?k=2
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