Updated: 18 May, 2009

 

 

Updated: 27 May, 2009

 

 

Updated: 12 March, 2009

 

 

 

 

Elca Matasaru never knew she was an artist. She was born in 1913 in Botosani, Romania. After surviving the horrors of World War II she came to Israel with her husband and young child in 1947, and the couple made a hard living in petty jobs. Only at the age of 67, while convalescing from a heart attack, Elca had been introduced by a friend to the world of paint and brushes, and suddenly her memories, dreams and long life experiences begun to flow onto the canvas.

Golconda Fine Art is proud to exhibit her works, which constitute a magnificently colourful and vivid parade of her childhood views from the long lost Jewish shtatle as well as from her life in northern Isreal. The greatly detailed paintings amalgamate the daily and the dreamy, the real and the imaginary, the living and the dead into a spectacular mosaic of human experience. 

 

 

Updated: 15 January, 2009

 

Opening 6 February

 

7 years after his debut solo exhibition at Golconda Fine Art, a second exhibition of the now international artist Victor Man will open on 6 February.
In recent years, the Romanian Victor Man has been gaining great success in the international art world. His work is being presented and purchased by major galleries and museums worldwide.
Between the years 2001 and 2003 Man studied and taught at the Jerusalem Studio School in Jerusalem. The current exhibition of oil landscapes and nudes represents the finest examples.
 

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Updated: 23 September, 2008

 

Opening 17 October

 

 

In the last decade of his life, Avigdor Stematsky (1908-1989) created an unusual series of beautiful pure abstracts. All the works were painted using a unique technique of watery tempera on large sheets (100 x 140 cm) of industrial paper, and display freedom, movement and sensuality as never before seen in his work.
Parallel to the ongoing exhibition of some of these works at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Golconda Fine Art will be opening a sale exhibition consisting of 10 finely selected pieces out of the same series.

 

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Updated: 25 August, 2008

 

Opening 15 September

 

In a special exhibition, Golconda Fine Art presents finely selected examples of cornerstones in Israeli art.  The exhibited works were created between the 1920's and 1960's by some of Israel's most prominent artists, such as Itzhak Danziger, Arieh Aroch, Zvi Mairovich, and others.

In their time, these artists were considered avant-garde, controversial trailblazers, yet their creative influence never ceased to resonate through the generations and, in fact, can be defined today as the cradle of Israeli contemporary art. 

 

 

 

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Updated: 11 June, 2008

 

Opening 3 July, as of 7 pm

 

Golconda Fine Art is proud to present for the first time the works of Gabriel Regal.
Regal’s studio is located in downtown Tel Aviv and his paintings depict his close surroundings, without embellishing or glorifying the decay, but rather attempting to uncover an aesthetic, sensual, even alluring aspect of the dilapidated buildings, with their dull architecture, peeling plaster, eroded pipes and scaffolds.

 

 

 

Updated: 22 April, 2008

 

 

Updated: 2 April, 2008

 

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1980, Ilya Gefter grew up in Canada and began to study Philosophy at York University, Toronto, but shortly after beginning he was awarded a full tuition scholarship by the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, USA. After graduating with highest honours he continued his studies in Italy and Israel, where he currently lives and works. At his young age, Gefter already exhibited a number of solo exhibitions, was honoured with prestigious awards and his works can be found in public and private collections worldwide.

The show presents works done over the past three years: still lives, portraits and landscapes in oils and ink, gently evoking a search for the ever-elusive balance between the unrepeatable experience of a moment and the eternal beauty of the visual ideal. The impressive results speak for themselves. 
 

Updated: 6 February, 2008

 

The directors of Golconda Fine Art Limited are proud to present a special exhibition in memory of the late Asim Abu Shakra.
Born in 1961 in Umm El-Fahim and died at the age of 29, Asim Abu Shakra was, and is still considered, the star of Palestinian art.
He studied, and later taught, at the Kalisher Art School in Tel Aviv. At his young age he exhibited several one-man exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions. After his death, his works were exhibited at the Israel Museum (1991) and the Tel Aviv Museum (1994).
Abu Shakra is renowned for his dramatic expressionism and especially for his cactus (“Tsabar”) paintings, a dominant motive repeated in many of his works. Abu Shakra reclaims the tsabar, an Israeli symbol (“Sabra”) which, like the olive tree, was borrowed from the Palestinian culture, and turns it into the complete opposite of the vigorous and vital “sabra". Abu Shakra’s tsabar is uprooted, planted in rusty tin cans and framed in gloomy surroundings. His powerful paintings present questions of identity, foreignness, loss and death with rare sensitivity.

 

Updated: 26 Nov, 2007

 

The directors of Golconda Fine Art Limited are proud to present for the first time the works of Uri Blayer.

For the past few years Blayer has been residing and working in Maui, Hawaii, where he has gained great success, but every now and then he returns to his favourite retreat – the Negev and the Judean Desert. Most of the works in this exhibition were produced during his recent visit to the Negev. Blayer is a true man-of-nature, and this inseparable emotional link that connects him to the desert reflects from every brush stroke in these spectacular landscapes.