Bidspirit auction | Ido Bar-El

Ido Bar-El - Watercolor on framed paper 40/28 cm (Framed 52/42 cm) signed Ido Bar-El Painter Born in Tel Aviv and graduated from Bezalel (1984) Senior artist, lecturer and curator. Served from 2003-2012 as head of the Art Department at Bezalel. Senior lecturer at Bezalel, Beit Berl Art College and the University of Haifa. Participated in many solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries in Israel and around the world, such as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum of Jerusalem, the Ashdod Museum of Art, the Herzliya Museum of Art, Antwerp, Ghent and Helsinki and more. He has won many awards including the Rappaport Award and the Minister of Culture Award. His works are in leading collections. Barel's painting is located in the gray area between painting - ready maid and photography and is a proposal for a conceptualist who struggles with the discourse about painting. Bar-El offers a painting linked to the Israeli painting tradition and examines the language of painting and the local taste pattern in relation to trends in contemporary European painting.