Belle Shafir

Belle Shafir , Hebrew שפיר, ביל(Born November 22, 1953 in Amberg ) is a German-Israeli sculptor and painter .

Life

Belle Shafir grew up in Amberg. After finishing school in Amberg, she immigrated to Israel in 1972 at the age of 19 . From 1984 to 1988 Belle Shafir studied at the renowned Avni Institute of Art in Tel Aviv . From 1988 to 1990 advanced studies with Rudi Lehman and Nahum Inbar took place. From 1990 to 1991 she studied and worked in Gabi Ben-Jano's studio in Raanana .

Belle Shafir lives and works in Tel Aviv. She shows her work in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad.

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A couple (2003). Wooden sculpture on the Amberg Sculpture Path

In the early 1990s, she constructed and installed large-scale environmental works mainly from natural materials, which are intended to mediate between the raw and the processed state or between nature and culture. In these works and in the accompanying drawings and paintings, Shafir questions the internal structural logic of natural formations.

During the 2000s, the focus of her works shifted to indoor installations, in which the physical and the imaginary are supposed to be almost inextricably intertwined. Small units are grouped together to represent complex systems patterned with deep structures. The echo of life alludes in her work to hidden processes, to the secret creation of real worlds that lie between the poles of integration and disorientation, growth and destruction, construction and omission.

Shafir explores the traces of memory in nature. In recent years, current developments on mutation, genetics and cloning have been integrated into her work.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions:

• 1992 Sarah Erman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
• 1994 “For the tree of the Field is Man's Life”, Petach-Tikva Museum, Israel and Galerie Maya Wildewuur, Hochhalen, Netherlands
• 1995 “Naturalis”, Artists' House, Jerusalem, Israel
• 1997 “Circle of consciousness”, The Constant Sculpture Gallery, Ramat-Gan, Israel
• 1998 “Lapillus”, Many H. Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
• 2002 “Portraitscriptum”, Sara Erman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
• 2002 The Path between a Maze, Sexual Lust and Altar ”, Seamgallery, Megadim, Israel
• 2003 “Venus spins”, Gallery im bib, Hannover, Germany
• 2005 “Close-up”, Artist's house, Herzlya, Israel
• 2006 “Insitu”, Artists' House, Tel-Aviv, Israel
• 2007 “Eugenics”, Municipality Gallery, Ra'anana, Israel
• 2011 “Fertility and Vegetativeness”, Ein-Harod Museum, Israel
• 2013 “Nuchal Translucency”, Dumbo Arts Festival 2013, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Group exhibitions:

• 1993 “Sculpture in the Little Forest”, Ra'anana, Israel
• 1997 “60 Years of the Blue Square”, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
• 1998 “The Garden-A Metaphor”, The University Botanical Gardens, Jerusalem, Israel
• 1998 “Storytime”, Candid Gallery, London, and Static Gallery, Liverpool, England, Artist's House, Jerusalem and Nazareth, Israel
• 1999 “Earth”, Um el Fachem Gallery, Galilee, Israel.
• 1999 "Discourse", Static Gallery, Liverpool, England.
• 1999 “We Borrow a Museum”, The Hidden Museum, Berlin, Germany
• 2001 “The Mundane Muse”, Arad Museum, Arad; Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod; Rehovot Municipal Art Gallery, Rehovot, Israel
• 2001 “Disposal Green” bunker, Cologne, Germany
• 2002 “Ambivalenzen”, Women's Museum, Bonn, Germany
• 2002 “Imaginaire feminin”, OPEN2002, Venice Lido, Italy
• 2003 “Displaced Self”, installation, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
• 2004 “Moz - Muse II”, Gallery “526”, Lodsch, Poland
• 2005 “Red”, Municipality Gallery, Kfar-Saba, Israel
• 2007 "Simanashi", Artist's house, Herzlya, Israel
• 2008 “Memory of the Future”, Cite internationale des arts, Paris, France
• 2008 “Second Croatian Biennale of Illustration”, Klovicevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
• 2009 "Not Necessarely Feminine (?)", Pyramida Gallery, Haifa, Israel
• 2011 “A women's work is never done” AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
• 2011 “Middle Yeast”, Palazzo Sant 'Elia, Palermo, Italy
• 2012 "Celebrating Kindred Spirits and Strange Bed Fellows", AIRGallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
• 2012 "Cabinets of Wonder in Contemporary Art", Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
• 2016 "ENDE.NEU.", Kunstraum NeuDeli , Leipzig, Germany

Chosen projects:

• 1994 “The Seer's Well”, Site Specific Sculpture: The Grizedale Forest, Lake District, England
• 1996 International Sculpture Project, Görlitz, Germany
• 1997 International Artists Symposium, Wiesbaden, Germany
• 1999 “The place where Art and Ecology meet”, Britanni Forest, Jerusalem, Israel
• 1999 “Naked Venus” Site Specific Sculpture, Akerby Sculpturepark, Nora, Sweden
• 1999 “Love Temple”, Khoj, India.
• 2000 “Cyfuniad 2001”, International Workshop with Residence, Liverpool and Plas Caerdeon, Wales, England
• 2002 “Temple del l'Amore”, Arte Sella, Borgo Vasulgana, Italy
• 2003 “A couple”, Amberger Skulpturenweg, LGS site, Amberg, Germany
• 2009 Installation “& Co”, Sculpture Park, Cipressa, Italy

Private collections in Germany, the Netherlands, India, Israel, Thailand, South Korea, England, France etc. a. contain works by Belle Shafir.

Award

• 2005 Special prize at the World Calligraphy Biennale in Jeollabuk-do, South Korea

literature

• Amberg Sculpture Path . Kulturamt Amberg, Amberg 2010, p. 15

Web links

• Belle Shafir website
• Belle Shafir - Fertility and Vegetativeness Museum of Art Ein Harod
• Belle Shafir AIR Gallery Brooklyn
• Information Center for Israeli Art Israel Museum Jerusalem
• 1st International Sculptor Symposium Amberg 2003

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information Center for Israeli Art . ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Israel Museum Jerusalem; Retrieved April 5, 2012. 
2. ↑ Characterization of the work . ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Museum Ein Harod; Retrieved February 28, 2012.  
3. ↑ Eugenics - human cloning and its artistic interpretation.Retrieved February 28, 2012.
4. ↑ Exhibitions ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 28, 2012.