Alona Harpaz
Alona Harpaz is showing at Galerie Caprice Horn, Stand B21
Alona Harpaz was born in 1971 in Tel Aviv and studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and later on the International Center of Photography in New York. Since 2000 she lives and works in Berlin. Harpaz has exhibited internationally at Frieze, at Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, and at the Armory Show, i.a. Her work will be part of the exhibition Art for Peace, a group show with Palestinian, Jordanian and Israeli artists, later this year at Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin. Alona has done numerous projects together with other artists to promote the idea of peace in the Middle East.
Alona Harpaz’s recent paintings are abstract. We also encounter paintings with wondrous beings wrapped in paradisiacal colourful, ornamental compositions, reflections of ourselves in party-colored melancholy glam, unfathomably real and excitingly alien. They are creatures whose nature is related to ours, half Vulcan family members, half imaginings of the techno community. Her pictures try to make us cheerful, even happy, even if their protagonists are anything but in possession of the cheerfulness kick. This kind of painting has pop appeal, because it knows no fear of contact with kitsch. It lets the cosmic particles around the figures gleam in psychedelic colors that sound like inwardness with no minor key.
She is in numerous public collections including Richard Princes collection. She has exhibited at the Ramat-Gan Museum, Prague Biennale 2, Tel Aviv Museum, Teheran Biennale 1, Haifa Museum of Art and Israel Museum of Art.
IN THIS ISSUE
- EDITORIAL
- Welcome
DEBATE- Ahmad Moualla
- Alona Harpaz
- Farideh Lashai
- Frey Norris Gallery
- Hrair Sarkissian
- In a Seductive Key
- Inshallah Surfboards
- The Shelter
- Waterhouse and Dodd
- INTERVIEW
- Ahmed Alsoudani
- Aya Haidar
- Debanjan Roy
- Elisabeth Lalouschek
- Julie Lomax
- Lucy and Jorge Orta
- Rachid Koraïchi
- Rashid Rana
- Shilpa Gupta
