The Israeli artist Eliezer Sonnenschein, whose work was noticed at the Arsenale during the Venice Biennale in 2001, is shown for the first time in France, at Galerie Nathalie Obadia.
Eliezer Sonnenschein, 36, lives and works in Tel Aviv while traveling extensively around the world.
In his work, the appearance of simplicity that emerges from his "sketches", the comic and playful side of the situations and characters, hides the image of a cruel, violent and very warlike world. It is a very disturbed paradise, it is Jerome Bosch's Garden of Delights transposed to the 21st century. This evocation of a paradise at war (Heaven often appears in his works) is also Israel, the Promised Land that we can guess in its disturbed destiny.
Eliezer Sonnenschein has chosen to cover the floor and walls of the gallery with red, thus creating a bloody atmosphere. On the walls, scenes from his digital inventory will be shown. Object-sculptures will also be installed.
Exhibitions:
2003
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
2002
Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen
Power, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
"From Painting/Object to Painting/Action",The Essl Collection, Vienna
2001
The Biennial of Venice, Venice. Curator: Harald Szeemann
2000
Seventh Biennial of Havana, Cuba
LIST 2000, Basel, Switzerland
Fondatione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'arte, Torino, Italy. Curator: Francesco Bonami
Drawings, Martin Kudlek Gallery, Cologne
Platforma, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv