
These paintings encompass both the illusion and the disillusionment and, as such, they create a sustained and complex viewing experience, both challenging and gripping. The works present themselves as a mirage-like territory where cultural knowledge and the physical act of seeing compete for a place in the viewer’s mind. In Eliav’s work, the painterly process gives itself over to excess and pathos. The rich and variegated surface both conceals and reveals the exaggerated, senseless dimension lying in the images on which the paintings are based. One brushstroke joins another as they accumulate in front of the viewer, forming a presence in the process of becoming. The suggestive viewing process through which paint is transformed into smoke, vapor or light is also a process of awakening, which activates the images in a continuous present. In this manner, the images and the painterly craft partake of a realm in which lavishness and extravagance coexist.
His recent works go beyond the discerned image. They are very different from his previous works but, at the same time, continue them by extending the act of looking even more and challenge the beholder in new ways. These works add up to Eliav's unique path, voice and position in the Israeli art world and in contemporary painting. They constitute an important development in Eliav's oeuvre, who is one of the central, important and bright artists working in Israel today.
Oren Eliav (b.1975, Israel)
Transfiguration, 2014
artist origin
provenance
current location
exhibitions
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Azra Aghighi Bakhshayeshi
—Oroj
2011Azra Aghighi Bakhshayeshi
—Poetry of Hafez
2011Shahriar Ahmadi
—Untitled
2011Shahriar Ahmadi
—Injection of Love 01
2011Shahriar Ahmadi
—Kiss her Shaykh Al Raeis
2010Halim Al Karim
—Hidden Goddess #4
2009Aziz & Cucher
—Some People
2014Ilit Azoulay
—Room #8
2011Anat Betzer
—Untitled
2011Oren Eliav
—Listener
2011Oren Eliav
—Listener
2011Oren Eliav
—Deposition
2012Oren Eliav
—Transfiguration
2014Oren Eliav
—Untitled
2014Stelios Faitakis
—Welcome to the Future
2011Stelios Faitakis
—The Legacy of Decline
2011Khaled Hafez
—Dyptich: Double Nuts and Couple Mona Lisas
2008Khaled Hafez
—Flight of the Half Gods
2009Shay Id Alony
—The Drummers (Visions)
2011Sigalit Landau
—Salt Crystal Fishing Net
2011Sigalit Landau
—Phoenician Sand Dance
2005Sigalit Landau
—Azkelon
2011Sigalit Landau
—Sand Flag
2013Sigalit Landau
—Knives of Azkelon
2014Sigalit Landau
—Daughter Slaughter (Sabres-Clonex)
2015Sigalit Landau
—Sand and Salt (Docked Ship)
2015Sigalit Landau
—Shit Man (Pavement)
2015Ohad Meromi
—Screen and Totem
2001Farhad Moshiri
—Comfort
2013Youssef Nabil
—Amani by Window, Cairo
1993Uri Nir
—Accelerator
2011Uri Nir
—North African door
2011Michal Rovner
—One Person Game Against Nature I, #6
1992-93Michal Rovner
—One Person Game Against Nature I, #40
1992-93Michal Rovner
—One Person Game Against Nature I, #3
1992-93Yehudit Sasportas
—Engadina
2005Yehudit Sasportas
—Fan, Earth up, Sky Down
2004Yehudit Sasportas
—Untitled
2003Eliezer Sonnenschein
—A Man On His Way To Meet His Future
2010Eliezer Sonnenschein
—Untitled
2010Sadegh Tirafkan
—Human Tapestry # 8
2009-2010Sadegh Tirafkan
—Human Tapestry # 7
2009Sadegh Tirafkan
—Untitled
2011Bita Vakili
—Untitled (from the September Collection)
2012Bita Vakili
—Untitled (from the September Collection)
2012Amon Yariv
—Man with Broken Face
2011Amon Yariv
—Man with Broken Face 2
2011Amon Yariv
—Barn Owl
2011Nevet Yitzhak
—Where the Wild Things Are
2014Maya Zack
—Living Room #1
2009Maya Zack
—Living Room #2
2009Maya Zack
—Living Room #3
2009Maya Zack
—Living Room #4
2009
Aboudia
—Untitled
2013Aboudia
—Untitled
2011Aboudia
—Untitled
2012Azra Aghighi Bakhshayeshi
—Oroj
2011Azra Aghighi Bakhshayeshi
—Poetry of Hafez
2011Shahriar Ahmadi
—Untitled
2011Shahriar Ahmadi
—Injection of Love 01
2011Shahriar Ahmadi
—Kiss her Shaykh Al Raeis
2010Eduardo Basualdo
—Maître et Esclave II
2013Eduardo Basualdo
—Maître et Esclave I
2013Anat Betzer
—Untitled
2011Armand Boua
—Untitled
2014Armand Boua
—Untitled
2014Jigger Cruz
—Trinitarian Formula: Great Corners Through the Eyes of the Moths
2015Caetano De Almeida
—Igapó
2010Zhang Ding
—Orbit-4
2014Wei Dong
—Beside the Girl 1
2011Heri Dono
—The Monkey Astronaut
2013Heri Dono
—The Skeleton Angel
2008Matías Duville
—Noche independencia
2011Oren Eliav
—Listener
2011Oren Eliav
—Listener
2011Oren Eliav
—Deposition
2012Oren Eliav
—Transfiguration
2014Oren Eliav
—Untitled
2014Semyon Faibisovich
—Window of the Studio on Chaplygina Street (Triptych)
1993Stelios Faitakis
—Welcome to the Future
2011Stelios Faitakis
—The Legacy of Decline
2011Chitra Ganesh
—The Matahari
2011Li Gang
—Red Apple, Green Apple
2013Li Gang
—Soft
2014Weigang Gao
—Anonymous Ditch
2008-2012Os Gemeos
—Maracatu Atomico
2004Khaled Hafez
—Dyptich: Double Nuts and Couple Mona Lisas
2008Khaled Hafez
—Flight of the Half Gods
2009Eduardo Hoffmann
—Untitled
2010Zhang Huan
—Insect Painting no. 2
2006Carlos Huffmann
—“Hope for the Future”
2011Wang Jianwei
—"...the event matured, accomplished in sight of all non-existent human outcomes." No.28
2013Li Jikai
—Burning Match
2010Winner Jumalon
—Watchmen I
2016Winner Jumalon
—Pomegranates II
2016Jitish Kallat
—Untitled (Stations of Pause)
2011Jitish Kallat
—Baggage Claim
2010Hyung Koo Kang
—Self Portrait
2010Guillermo Kuitca
—Winter Tales
1992Sea-Hyun Lee
—Between Red 116
2010Sea-Hyun Lee
—Between Red 059
2008Sea-Hyun Lee
—Between Red 111
2010Tianbing Li
—Rêve Tiananmen
2010Tianbing Li
—Selfportrait (Village Paris, Xiangbi Hill, Tiananmen)
2010-2011Guohe Liao
—Save the House
2011Guohe Liao
—Old Fuck
2011Mateo López
—Tablero
2014Julius Macwan
—Time Bomb/ The Death of Art
2011Nalini Malani
—Broken #2
2009I Nyoman Masriadi
—Untitled
1998I Nyoman Masriadi
—Great Daddy
2014Moris (Israel Meza Moreno)
—Shot Into The Air 2
Aime Mpane
—12 Portraits from the Kinoct series
2011Richard Mudariki
—Black Economic Empowerment
2014Richard Mudariki
—The New Church
2014Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo
—Glamorous And Fairy
2014Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo
—EGO
2013Boris Nzebo
—Construction du milles-pattes
2008 - 2009Boris Nzebo
—Olive L'infirmiere
2014Gabriel Orozco
—Samurai Tree (Invariant 8)
2005Georgy (Gosha) Ostretsov
—Meeting of Russian Cosmism through trans-avantgarde
2011Georgy (Gosha) Ostretsov
—Elvises
2011Jagannath Panda
—The Elusive Theatre
2011Ruben Pang
—The Shredding Series
2014Ruben Pang
—Auto Pilot
2014Ruben Pang
—Ophelia
2014Ruben Pang
—Graduation Night (Triptych)
2015Ruben Pang
—Light and Divine Winds
2016Rodolpho Parigi
—Night Clubbing
2011José Patrício
—Collection 2
2005Iranna Pooja
—The Core
2012J. Ariadhitya Pramuhendra
—Death of the Robe
2011J. Ariadhitya Pramuhendra
—Vampire
2013Gatot Pujiarto
—Dirty Mind / Otak Porno
2008Thiago Rocha Pitta
—Tres Nuvens De Lama (three mud clouds)
2011Reena Saini Kallat
—Falling Fables-2
2010Yehudit Sasportas
—Engadina
2005Yehudit Sasportas
—Fan, Earth up, Sky Down
2004Yehudit Sasportas
—Untitled
2003Maria Serebriakova
—Rowan Berry
2007Ruijun Shen
—Market
2008Ruijun Shen
—Statue#1
2008Eliezer Sonnenschein
—A Man On His Way To Meet His Future
2010Yoon Suk One
—Dry Flower
2016Agus Suwage
—The Kiss #4
2011Rodel Tapaya
—Repatriated Bodies
2014Pascale Marthine Tayou
—Dream I
2013Nguyen Thai Tuan
—Black Painting No. 40 (1955)
2008Nguyen Thai Tuan
—Black Painting No. 58
2008Nguyen Thai Tuan
—Black Painting No. 109
2014Thukral & Tagra
—Science, Mystery and Magic II (superman)
2011Thukral & Tagra
—Kingdom Come IV
2011Delson Uchoa
—Trinta e Quatro de Abril
2010Bita Vakili
—Untitled (from the September Collection)
2012Bita Vakili
—Untitled (from the September Collection)
2012Ronald Ventura
—Carne Carnivale
2014Liu Wei
—Beyond the Sky Limits No.2
2012Entang Wiharso
—Under Family Portrait
2012Liu Xiaodong
—The fire of 1841
2012Pei-Ming Yan
—International Landscape
2006Zhu Yu
—Stain NO.16
2012Song Yuanyuan
—Landscape
2014Song Yuanyuan
—Workshop
2014Song Yuanyuan
—Comfortable Room
2013Luiz Zerbini
—Fantasmao
2016Zhao Zhao
—Girls with Snake
2010Zhao Zhao
—Rabbit
2010Zhao Zhao
—Thank You Brother-in-law (2)
2010Xu Zhen (MadeIn Company)
—Light Source-The Gold of Their Bodies
2014Xu Zhen (MadeIn Company)
—Under Heaven -- 3228IN0144
2014