Bidspirit auction | Arie Berkowitz

Arie Berkowitz - Palm trees. 80x30 Oil on canvas stretched on wood. Signed on the back. Arie Berkowitz is a curator and a very well-known figure in the world of contemporary Israeli art. He studied at Tel Aviv University, over the years he has presented dozens of exhibitions in Israel and abroad, alongside extensive activity as curator and director of the Tel Aviv Artists' House. One of the things that characterizes him is that he is not only a painter, but also an artist who has greatly influenced the art scene for many years. He was associated with the Tel Aviv Artists' House, and served as artistic director and chief curator. While promoting young and veteran artists. He moves from abstract painting to graphic signs, with an implied landscape and visual memory. Many of his works do not tell a story directly, they create a feeling. of a place or memory. Sometimes palm trees, moons, landscapes, spots, markers and almost calligraphic lines appear. With surrealist influences and Israeli abstract. His landscape is reduced to markers and memory rather than a realistic description of a place. In the Israeli market, Aryeh is known and edited mainly within the art world and collectors of contemporary art. For decades, he has been one of the most influential people behind the scenes in the Israeli art world. And this palm tree work with the blue smear suggests that the palm trees are not the subject of the painting, but a sign or memory of a place. Aryeh is a well-known and respected artist in the Israeli art world, he is neither mass nor factory. I met a pleasant artist who is connected to human reality and loves to help. And apparently this is also what makes him a good Israeli artist.