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Yossi Mark, Silent Dialogue
Exhibition at Chelouche Gallery, Curator: Drorit Gur Arie
26/01/2024
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August 7, 2024
Congratulations for the purchase of a work by Yossi Mark into Tel Aviv Museum Collection
The work was recently exhibited in the exhibition “Silent Dialogue”, at Chelouche Gallery, Curated by Drorit Gur Arie. Mark continues his exploration into aging and decay, looking into mind-body relations and revealing how withering is embodied in the flesh. The discourse of ageism and the veneration of youth in contemporary Western culture have led to... ...
June 17, 2024
Yossi Mark is The Winner of The Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art 2024
Chelouche Gallery is pleased to announce Yossi Mark is the winner of The Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art, 2024. The Tel Aviv Museum Shiff Prize Committee has announced that Yossi Mark is the recipient of the 2024 Haim Shiff Award for Figurative-Realistic Art. This prestigious award includes a $10,000 grant and a solo... ...
Biography
Yossi Mark, Born in Israel in 1954, studied philosophy and social studies at Tel Aviv University and graduated from the Avni Institute for Art in Tel Aviv. He was awarded the Israel Ministry of Culture and Sports Award in the Visual Arts (2010) and the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports Award in the Visual Arts (2017). Mark had solo exhibitions at Chelouche Gallery in 2015, 2008, 2002, and 1993, and exhibited in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan, the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Ashdod Art Museum, Uri and Rami Nechushtan Museum, Ashdot Ya’akov, the Israeli pavilion in Paris, the West Bloomfield Museum of Art Detroit and the University of Michigan.
Mark’s is a unique realism that ignores the tactility of the outer surfaces, and does not idealize what is. Through crystal clear observation,silently detached from the hustle of convention, his paintings depict a near casual, common reality. With lucidity as close as feasible to the direct experience, free from constraints of time and space, albeit very precise about time and space. His art is endowed with Haiku qualities, saturated with the beauty of simplicity, of the ordinary, of the sadness which accompanies the knowledge of the inevitable ephemeralness. (from “Wall, Bed and Slippers”, by Drorit Gur Arie)
Mark’s oevre centers the monomentality of the intimate and touches substantial human conditions. The figures that he shows us exposed in their natural expression whithin rooms, and their relation to the space around them, invites the spectator to encounter graceful moments of reflection in ordinary exsistence. His works move from the emotional to the contemplative, from the analitical to the poetical and from visual simplicity to emotional complexity. His paintings that lean on prolonged, slow, focused and direct observation build a soft, quiet, introvert essense that asks for inner attentiveness.
Curriculum Vitae
Yossi Mark
1954 Born in Israel
Education:
1975-1977 Studied Philosophy and Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University
1977-1981 Graduate of Avni Institute of Fine Arts, Tel Aviv; Art advanced studies in London and Montreal
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2025 ”Bona Nox Mater”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Curator: Emanuela Calo
2024 “Silent Dialogue”, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2015 “Closer”, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2008 Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2002 Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
1993“ Magnificat”, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026 “Evolution”, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curators: Nira Itzhaki
2025 “What’s Going On in the Field Now”, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curators: Nira Itzhaki and Avigail Talmor
2025 ”Young and Old Masters”, Artists House, Tel Aviv, Curators: Arie Berkowitz and Miriam Gambord
2024 ”Summer Seeds”, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Curator: Nira Itzhaki
2024 ”Masterpieces”, Mishkan Museum of art, Ein Harod, Curator: Avi lubin
2023 ”Selected Art Works from Dubi Shiff Art Collection”, Herzog, Fox & Newman Law Firm, Curator: Iris Barak
2022 Food Weave, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Drorit Gut Arie & Nira Itzhaki
2020 “The Winners Exhibition: winners of the ministry of culture and sports award”, Ashdod Art Museum
2019 “Hair&Bath Variations”, Artist House Tel-Aviv. Curators: Irit Levin Arie Berkowitz
2019 “Keeping at Distance”, On Intimacy in Contemporary Painting, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Curator: Liza Gershuni
2019 “Maarbolot”, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2017 “Following…”, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel-Aviv. Curators: Irit Levin and Arie Berkovich
2016 “Works on Paper”, Liza Gershuni Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2016 “Intricate Affinities”, Recollections of Western Tradition in Local Contemporary Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Curatur: Smadar Sheffi (catalogue).
2014 “Blue-and-White Delft”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Curator: Dr. Doron Lurie (catalogue)
2012 “Tectonic Fractures”: Petach Tikva Museum of Art hosted at Leumi Bet Mani House-Leumi Visitors and Arts Center, Tel Aviv, Curator: Drorit Gur Arie
2011 The Winners 2010″ The Ministry of Culture and Sport Prizes in Art and Design,2010, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan (catalogue)
2010 “Re-Location”, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
“Something Small and Good”, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2007 “Presences- Recent Israeli Painting”, Painters & Sculptures Association, Tel Aviv, Curator: Liza Gershuni (catalogue)
2006 “A Rich Seam”, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Curator: Hagai Segev (catalogue)
2006 “Beyond Richness- A New Narrative in Israeli Art”, Uri and Rami Nechushtan Museum, Ashdot Ya’akov Meuchad, Curator: Hagai Segev (catalogue)
2005“ Colors of Summer”, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2003 “Surface Talk”, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Curator: Nira Itzhaki
2002 “Artist’s Profile”, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Curator: Nira Itzhaki
2002 “A View on the Art of Portraiture”, Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art, Ness-Ziona, Curator: Ada Naamani
1999 “Salon de Automne”, Israeli pavillon, Paris (catalogue)
1997-2000 Michigan University Art Gallery, A Traveleling Exhibition, USA, Curatosr: Dr. Cynthia Phillips Dr. Anton Biderman.
1997 “Identity, Thought and Vision”, Studio Aman, The West Bloomfield Museum, Detroit.
1995 “ The Scarlet Line”, Drawing Exhibition, The New Art Workshop, Ramat-Eliahu, Curator: Miriam Gamburd (catalogue)
1994 “An Image of Place” Contemporary Israeli Art, Art Focus, Studio Aman Gallery of Art, Hadera. Curator: Dr. Anton Biderman. (catalogue).
1993 “The Gallery Artists”, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
1992 “Curators in Israeli Art”, Sarah Conforti Gallery, Jaffa, Curator’s Choice: Dalia Levin (catalogue)
1991 “The Secret of Color Reduction”, Municipal Gallery, Rehovot, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Bat Yam Museum, Arad Museum, Curators: Dalia Levin and Ada Naamani (catalogue)
1989 “Artists for Peace”, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
1989 “The Gallery Artists”, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
1988 “Fresh Paint: The Young Generation in Israeli Art”, Tel Aviv Museum of art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Curators: Elen Ginton and Yigal Zalmona (catalogue)
“Nine Israeli Artists”, Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Curator: Nira Itzhaki (catalogue)
1987 “Figure – Portrait”, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.
Visual Arts Center, Be’er-Sheva.
J. Robert Fisher Hall, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Curator: Nira Itzhaki
1985 Alon Gallery, Jerusalem
Scholarships and awards:
2024 The Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art
2017 The Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport Award in the Visual Arts
2010 “Supporting the arts award”, The Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport
1981 Excellence Grand awarded by the “Ir Va-em” Foundation for the Advancement of Culture and Art, Tel Aviv