Israel

Michael Kerzner was born in Ukraine in 1964. His father, Wolf Kerzner is a well known painter.

In 1982 he graduated from the Ukraine Republic Art School and in the same year he was accepted into the Kiev High Academy of Art from which he graduated with honors.
In 1986 he joined a group of dissident artists who created and exhibited all over Europe.

He has been inspired by the landscapes and lavish sun and light of Israel as compared to the dark palette he used in Russia. The dazzling local light which is so hard on the eyes of all newcomers from Eastern Europe has taken on a hue that blends and balances among the delicate sensitive brush stroke on the paper. That light, which vitiated the influences of local scenes is the challenge, the object to be confronted and it also determines the content and the hue and the grid and the final message.

That light and the touch are what endow his paintings with an optimistic tone, but they are also what spatters them with soulful hints of other feelings.

Michael Kerzner was born in Ukraine in 1964. His father, Wolf Kerzner is a well known painter.

In 1982 he graduated from the Ukraine Republic Art School and in the same year he was accepted into the Kiev High Academy of Art from which he graduated with honors.
In 1986 he joined a group of dissident artists who created and exhibited all over Europe.

He has been inspired by the landscapes and lavish sun and light of Israel as compared to the dark palette he used in Russia. The dazzling local light which is so hard on the eyes of all newcomers from Eastern Europe has taken on a hue that blends and balances among the delicate sensitive brush stroke on the paper. That light, which vitiated the influences of local scenes is the challenge, the object to be confronted and it also determines the content and the hue and the grid and the final message.

That light and the touch are what endow his paintings with an optimistic tone, but they are also what spatters them with soulful hints of other feelings.

Abel Pann was born in Lithouania.

He began his artistic studies in Odessa and continued them in Paris. A number of his pictures have been acquired by the French Government, by the Municipality of Paris, by the Museum of Luzembourg and by the Art Institute of Chicago and a series of 45 pictures has been purchased in America for the National Museum of Jerusalem.

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Abel Pann wrote:

The task I have set myself involves a serious responsibility. The enthusiasm which my work arouses in me is often clouded by painful doubts and questionings. For that same Book which has inspired many a genius to produce his masterpiece has proved to be beyond the reach of a far greater number of artists.

A son of the race which produced this marvelous Book. I feel that I, better than some others, may be able to seize its true spirit, and to communicate it to my fellow-men.

But the absolute truth is with G-d alone. Mankind is ever the subject to error. And so I entreat the indulgence of my judges.

ARIE AZENE

Arie Azene was born in Germany in 1934. He moved to Israel at a young age and grew up in Tel Aviv. During his career as a Master artist he has exhibited in international shows, Museums and Galleries in Israel, Europe and the USA. Many of Azene’s artworks can be found in important private collections.
The original paintings that inspired Azene’s 3D mixed media series were painted in watercolours throughout the 80’s. Inspired by these pictures a new series of oil paintings and 3D mixed media artworks were created by Azene in the last few years

1956 Tel Aviv Museum: Israeli artist
1959 Tel Aviv Museum: new horizons
1963 Ein Harod Museum: new horizons
1963 Biennale – Paris
1965 Tel Aviv Museum: young Artists
1966 Gordon Gallery T.A.
1967 Katz Gallery T.A.
1968 Tel Aviv Museum: Autumn Show
1971 Modern art Museum Haifa: Multism
1971 Tel Aviv artist’s House: Abrstractions
1973 Jerusalem artist’s house
1973 Sara Gilat gallery, Jerusalem
1974 Yodfat Gallery T.A.
1975 Yodfat Gallery T.A.
1979 Israel Museum, Jerusalem: Kadishman connection
1981 Tel Aviv Museum: new works
1985 Art – Expo N.Y.
1985 Art – Expo L.A.
1986 Art – Expo N.Y.
1986 Art – Expo L.A.