Ofir Dor

Ofir Dor | Study for a Rider

Ofir Dor

Study for a Rider, 2016

Oil on canvas

50 x 70 cm

about Ofir Dor

Israel, 1972

Ofir Dor holds a Degree in Fine Arts from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he was a visiting professor at Cooper Union, New York, during 1999 and 2000. He has individually placed in Israel, Germany and Spain. These exhibitions include the one held at Helena Rubinstein's Pavilion for Contemporary Art of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, in 2007, as well as those held at ATC Gallery, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Circle 1 Gallery and the KunstlerHaus Bethanien, in Berlin, and Hayarkon 19 Gallery and Sommer Contemporary Art, in Tel Aviv. Among its groups are those of the Haifa Museum of Art in Israel and the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan. In 2014 he was granted a residency at La Cité International des Artes with the support of the Institut Français, in Paris. His works are in important collections, both private and institutional.

about the artist's works

The history of art — apart from the esoteric and symbolism — as a repository of works and ideas to work with, is a constant in the pictorial practice of Ofir Dor. In his works, ideas about painting, look, symbolism, relationships, power, and even, in second rebounds, about the ways we think about these same ideas are activated. His practice in the study involves extensive work with drawing, often as an intermediate step between different iterations of the same theme. Through slight variations, experimenting with colour, composition, stage and gesture, try to achieve a balance between an energetic and raw state and a sense of balance and lucidity, not only for a deliberate structure but rather, by the fusion of image and painting, creating a unique and particular event where content and form are united to create meaning.

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