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Avner Sher

Portfolio

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Working in the studio


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Jonah, 2013

Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood,

47“x47" / 120x120 cm


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Dragonfly, 2007

Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood 71“x47" / 180x120 cm


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Details


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Beautiful, 2002

Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood

47“x39" / 120x100 cm


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Cuckoo Thoughts, 2001

Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood 47”x31” / 120x80 cm


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Alone with the Cat, 2013


47”x31” / 120x80 cm


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Six Days, 2013 Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood,71”x71” / 180x180 cm


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Cuckoo Thoughts 2, 2013



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Frida, 2013 Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood

71”x47” / 180x120 cm


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Bless You, 2013 Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood 71”x47” / 180x120 cm


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The Feast, 2013


71”x47” / 180x120 cm


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Big Mama, 2013

Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood71”x39” / 180x100 cm


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Good Morning? 2013


47”x47” / 120x120 cm


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Noah, 2007


71”x

71” /

180x180 cm(Kristal Family collection)


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Brunette, 2007 Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood

71”x47” / 180x120 cm (Beilin collection)


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I am king, 2007

Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood71“x47" / 180x120 cm


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Beautiful as the Moon, 2007



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Untitled, 2002



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In the Beginning, 2001


47”x31” / 120x80 cm


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Normal, 2002



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Leader, 2002



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Fish, 2002


47”x31” / 120x80 cm


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Untitled, 2002


71”x47” / 180x120 cm


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Mirror, 2002,


47”x31” / 120x80 cm


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Life is just a game (after Benigni), 2013

Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood, 47”x71” / 120x180 cm


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Womanizer, 2012



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15 minutes, 2013

Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood,47”x39” / 120x100 cm


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Man Eater, 2013



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Hope, 2013



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Welcome to show business, 2013



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Sacrifice, 2007



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Mummies, 2001



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Untitled, 2001


47”x31” / 120x80 cm


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Diptych, 1999

Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood, 38”x20” / 96x50 cm (each)


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AVNER SHER

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www.sher-art.com

Born 1951, lives and works in Israel

Education

1984 Art Studies, University of Haifa, Israel

1978 B. Arch, Architecture and Town Planning,

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

Solo Exhibition

2013 Koninklijke villa, Oostende, Belgium Atelier Sher, Art Monaco Fair, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco

2011 Opera House, Tel Aviv2007 Reflection, Municipal Gallery, Haagam, Raanana

2005 The Artist Way , Municipal Gallery, Haagam, Raanana

2002 This is his Tatoo, Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv

Group Exhibitions

2013 Art Laren, The Brink, Laren, Netherlands

Dacia Universal Art Project , Erfurt, Germany

Dacia Universal Art Project , Sibiu, RomaniaGroup Exhibition, Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv

Unity Exhibition, Memoir de l'avenir gallery, Paris, France

2012 Avner Sher Paintings, Contemporary Art Fair, Javits Center, NY

Art show on Broadway, Dacia Gallery, NY

The Miami River Art Fair during Art Basel Week, Miami, FL

Nina Torres Gallery, Miami, FL

2005 The Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Haifa

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Selected Publications

2013 Atelier Sher, exhibition catalog

2012 Scratching the Surface by editor, Arts Observer

Images in the Chaos, by Hilly Moyal, Makor Rishon newspaper

Avner Sher Paintings, exhibition catalog Avner Sher, exhibition catalog, with the Current Art Group

2007 Reflection, exhibition catalog

2005 Exhibition Catalog, The Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Haifa

2003 The Madness of Destruction, by Anat Medan, Yediot Aharonot newspaper

A New Inner World , by Alim Blitenthal, Makor Rishon newspaper

2002 This is his Tatoo, exhibition catalog

Israeli Artists, by Yehuda May, Auction Magazine

Collections

Beilin Collection, CA

Kristal Family Collection, Caesarea

Private collections worldwide


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Artist Statement

As a child I was never allowed to go on school trips. Being an only child to survivors of the holocaust, my parents were so

protective, fears that something would happen to their son. Like others who had survived the holocaust, my father and

mother never told me about what they had gone through so I always had a strong feeling that my home is full of secrets.

Often I would listen through the keyhole to their conversations and would hear about the long walk they were forced to

make barefoot in the snow, or about the threatening dogs set upon them by the Germans. Only recently had I started to

think that perhaps I am painting my father’s anguished face, and that the reoccurring images are a sublimation of the

repetitiveness of the holocaust images that I had been carrying around in my mind from an early age.

I have always been interested in a relationship between construction and deconstruction. In my early works I

painted colorful compositions in oil on canvas, in the cubistic spirit. I later began exploring the other side of creation and

started to destruct the surface. I am working on cork boards, using a wood scorching pen, screwdrivers and hammers, I

scratch, tear, engrave and burn the surface by splashing wine, ketchup, mud or iodine on it. The work is done without

thought, an intuitive process, instinctual, which embodies an attempt to release control. Only at the end does my

unconscious content emerge, and I often contemplate its meaning only after reading the interpretations given by art

critics.

Each work induces a journey beginning with intuitive unruly desecration, somehow exposing the subconscious and

indelible marks of second generation Holocaust survivors.

This force turns towards revealing the beauty within the ugliness and abomination, creating an emotion full of

anticipation for a better world. Hinting at man's strength, belief and will to create wholeness, a normal and full life, my

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