Amir Nave

Born in: 1974
From: Tel Aviv, Israel
Lives and works: Paris, France
Represented by: In Situ - fabienne leclerc
Website: https://www.amirnave.com/

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Biography

Amir Nave’s stark creations are manifestations of an interior world dominated by sombre emotions. Decay, loneliness and despair are but a few examples of what the artist explores through a variety of mediums that go from drawing, to painting and the creation of objects on cardboard. Rejecting any type of frame and by this not limiting his work to a contrived shape, he gives total liberty to his hands. The human body is center stage in his work, but he ambitions to go further by exploring transcending themes like time, space, seclusion, power relations and what he likes to call “the pain of consciousness”.

At the junction of abstraction and form, his work recalls Cy Twombly’s chaotic and brutal canvases which examines destruction and void. Although at first glance disorganized, reconstruction ensues from this first stage letting slip a beam of hope in a rather bleak horizon.

His grotesque imagery brings him closer to Chaïm Soutine’s paintings, both sharing a deep love for flesh and its unfathomable hues.

Career highlights

Solo shows

2018, in SITU/Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France: To Give What Is Due
2018, Shin Gallery, New York City, US: Should We Keep the Head
2014, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel: Nowhere
2013, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel: Circus of Pain

Group shows

2016, Galleria Continua, Boissy-le-Châtel, France: Sphères 9
2016, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel: Ha-Talu (The Rootless Character)
2016, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel: Open Sketchbooks
2014, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel: Feels Like Heaven