Dana Harel
Born in 1986, currently living and creating art in a place called “Kibbutz Hatzor”. I took part in group exhibitions in the artists' incubator at the “Fresh Paint” fair (2019). I also took place in single exhibitions – “The Labs”, “Sotheby’s Gallery TLV”, “The Shlush Gallery”, “Gallery Minus 1”, “The Beery Gallery”, “The educational Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sapir College” & “The White Gallery in Kibbutz Hatzor”. I Hold a B.A. in Culture and Art from Sapir College and Im a certified art teacher at the Beit Berl College of Art.
I look at nature from a "pure" perspective and turn the familiar into the unfamiliar in my works. The essence of my works is close to the assumption of the literary scholar ViktorShklovsky, who coined the term “Estrangement” (De-automation). I work out of a childish and
miraculous curiosity that seeks to dwell on the beauty I meet. I work with coarse artificial materials and give them the appearance of natural creations. This is how random crystallization of matter can be such a spectacular thing and produce in our consciousness folds of soil, ocean floor space sheets in the cap of a mushroom or coral reef. Spontaneous but organized forms of surprising beauty capable of evoking deep thrills associated with the relationship of man with nature and with himself. They arouse curiosity to examine with a more sensitive eye even the most accidental spots and cracks, the relationship between the ripples that arise on the surface of the water or the formation and disappearance of the amoebas. The sense of rhythm in my works is repeated, the repetition and the disappearance have comfort in them, and they stimulate the most basic rhythms that are encoded into our bodies.
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Dana Harel