TSIBI GEVA
Tsibi Geva (born 1951, Israel). Geva’s work includes several important and well-known series of paintings - titled Keffiyeh, Terrazzo, Windows, Thorns, Flowers, Birds, and Mountains.
Geva’s approach to painting is fundamentally conceptual. The works themselves are imbued with a surprisingly expressive charge, and his entire work process is predicated upon creating a dialectical tension between contrasts, and the combination of different arenas of discourse and action.
His paintings are composed of multilayered work. Even when their surfaces seem to be inhabited by a specific image, they contain several more layers shaped by processes of revelation and concealment, figuration and abstraction. Integral to the layers are multiple allusions to the history of art, and to place, politics, biographical details, fear and longing.
They are suffused with the impossible complexity of Israeli-Palestinian existence in the place and strive to touch upon the most sensitive questions concerning painting, politics, and culture.
Mixed media on canvas, 180 x 120 cm
Mixed media on canvas, 180 x 120 cm
TSIBI GEVA
Tsibi Geva (born 1951, Israel). Geva’s work includes several important and well-known series of paintings - titled Keffiyeh, Terrazzo, Windows, Thorns, Flowers, Birds, and Mountains.
Geva’s approach to painting is fundamentally conceptual. The works themselves are imbued with a surprisingly expressive charge, and his entire work process is predicated upon creating a dialectical tension between contrasts, and the combination of different arenas of discourse and action.
His paintings are composed of multilayered work. Even when their surfaces seem to be inhabited by a specific image, they contain several more layers shaped by processes of revelation and concealment, figuration and abstraction. Integral to the layers are multiple allusions to the history of art, and to place, politics, biographical details, fear and longing.
They are suffused with the impossible complexity of Israeli-Palestinian existence in the place and strive to touch upon the most sensitive questions concerning painting, politics, and culture.
Untitled, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2012, 150x120 cm
Untitled, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2020, 160x140 cm
Untitled, oil and collage on paper and wood, 2017, 184x130 cm.jpg
Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, 2018, 150_200 cm
Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, 2020, 140_180 cm
Untitled, 2018 acrylic on canvas 178 x 120 cm
Since 1979 Geva has exhibited extensively worldwide. Solo exhibitions include the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1984); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1985); Tel Aviv Museum (1988); Haifa Museum, Haifa (2003); Tel Aviv Museum (2008); The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC (2013); MACRO Testaccio, Rome (2014); Mönchenhaus – Museum of Modern Art, Goslar (2015); and the Israeli Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).
His works are part of major public and private collections, among them, The MoMA Collection, NY; The Jewish Museum, New York; The Rothfeld Collection - American University Museum, Washington DC; The Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem; The Tel Aviv Museum of Art; The Phoenix Collection; Annina Nosei, NY; Arturo Schwarz, Italy; Donald Rothfeld, NY; Joshua Gessel, Zurich; Michael Recanati, NY; Monique and Max Burger, Zurich.
Geva is a professor at the School of Visual Arts, MFA program, NY; the University of Haifa, and Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Sandberg Prize from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Mendel and Eva Pundik Foundation Prize from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture.
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