Serigraph

EDWIN SALOMON
Edwin Salomon was born in Oona Mures, a town in the region of Transilvania, Romania, in 1935. In 1948 he moved to Cluj, the capital of Transilvania.

He grew up there and after graduating from the local high-school in 1951, he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts named after Ion Andreescu in Cluj. In the fourth year of his studies, the National Museum of Bucharest bought three of his paintings. Two years later, in 1957, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Sculptors Association as a member , an act which symbolized his adaptation to the Israeli art world.

In 1965, Salomon went to Paris for additional artistic training at the Sorbonne. In the same year, he was awarded the Nordau Prize. Later, he won more prizes: Tel-Aviv’s Bible Museum award for the year 1983 and a honorary Prize awarded by the Holon Municipality in the form of 18 trees planted in his name in 1985.

He teaches art at a variety of Institutions. Among them the Art Institute of Bat-Yam, the Tel-Aviv Musuem and the Teachers College in Ramat Hasharon, as well as serving as Art Director for the Wizo-France Vocational high-school.

Edwin Salomon’s paintings appear in numerous private collections in Israel, the U.S.A. Canada, Uruguay, Brazil, Romania, Sweden, Hungary, as well as in public collections such as the National Museum of Bucharest, the Cluj Museum, the Herzelia Museum and the Great Synagogue of Washington DC.

MICHAEL ROZENVAIN

Michael Rozenvain was born in Kiev, Ukraina in 1963. He graduated from art college in Kiev, and after that in the Academy of decorative art in Lvov. He came to Israel in 1990.

Michael Rozenvain has a great talent in painting watercolors of flowers and landscapes, a subject and medium which many have disregarded and even scorned. To reveal such a great talent in painting watercolors in flowers is one of the most difficult things because a flower is the highest expression of beauty in nature, and the tools of painting which we have are not capable of depicting this beauty on canvas.

However, the task of great art is not to create anew the beauty of nature, but to create the beauty whose inspiration is drawn from nature. This is what Rozenvain achieves in his paintings.

In his works there is much more than an exact description of the smallest detail of the flower. They are recreated in his imagination and become transformed into a painting with its own rhythm. By his delicate arrangement of line and the placement of color unique to him, he lavishes on his works the mysterious indefinable sublimation which turns a painting into a work of art.

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.