Jerusalem

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.

The Palestine Art Publishing Co. Ltd Jerusalem

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.

Gregory Kohelet was born in 1954 in Fergana.

The son of a sculptor, Gregory was initiated into art by his father. He wasn’t pressured to learn “the classical laws of Art” but only to love and respect nature – the master teacher.

As a young boy, Gregory traveled with his father to wild landscapes with the intention of learning to understand the meaning of composition, color, and expression as they exist in Nature.

There, he listened to the music, understood the wisdom of the stones. Nature taught him to listen to silence. He thought that if he were to stay there he would become a Buddhist. But his was a different destiny.

He left his parents and his town Fergana at the age of 14 and went to study art in Tashkent.
He studied painting for 4 years at the Art College, and then for five more years at the Academy of Art.

He had excellent teachers, many from Moscow and St. Petersburg.

At College he was particularly influenced by Eastern art: Japanese, Chinese, Indian, while at the Academy he studied European Art: Giotto, Bruegel, Modigliani, More, Brancusi and Russian icons.

Yet he felt that his life’s course must pass through Jerusalem. In 1990 he immigrated with his family to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. In the holy city he absorbed much light and divine inspiration. He believes in G-d, but only in Jerusalem did he really “meet” him.

His influences from literature: The Bible essentially, Rilke, Matzu-Batzu (China), Lorca (Spain), Eluard (France)…

His influences from the world of music: Mozart, Bach, organ and liturgical (Armenian, Catholic, Jewish…)

His family is also a source of inspiration. His son Daniel – born in Jerusalem, his first son – born in Tashkent, and his wife, who dominates the female figure in his work.