Published in City Brief
Hatice Utkan
Avraham Eilat’s solo video installation “Psycho-physical Time” will show through November at Gallery G-art. The exhibition is part of a series called “The Fear of What is Suddenly too Late.”
The installation is in some respects a retrospective, focusing on the continuity of the artist’s works and has already been exhibited at the Prague International Contemporary Art Triennial.
The main idea behind the installation is that the characters, art history, photographs, in short each notion Eliat uses in his work signify the originality of everything.
Who is Avraham Eilat?
Avraham Eilat is an Israeli artist, educator and curator. He graduated from the Hebrew Gimnasium Herzliya in Tel Aviv, and was enrolled in Hashomer Hatzair youth movement for nine years, since the age of 9.
Close contact with nature and its phenomenon and the features of local landscape deeply influenced his way of thinking and established the themes which appear throughout his entire career in art. The contrast between man-made geometrical shapes of fishponds and the free flowing of the flora and typical hilly landscape of the Hula Valley area, crystallized his visual language and determined its formal and thematic foundations.
Avraham Eilat skillfully employs various means of expression: drawing and painting, etching, photography, sculpture, installation, and often a combination of more than one of these media. Using these means enriches his basic statement and makes it complex and multi layered.