Lot 90: q - GIL SCHACHAR B.1965

13 3/4 by 9 1/2 by 10 1/4 in.<br><br>35 by 24 by 26cm

wax with pigment, epoxy and paint

executed in 1997

Duisberg, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Gil Schachar, 1998

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION IN ISRAEL

Gil Shachar was born in Tel Aviv in 1965. He has been exhibited regularly since1992, including solo exhibitions at the John Doe Gallery, Dusseldorf (2001) and the Herzliya Museum of Art (2002).

Discussing the artist's sculptures, Tami Katz-Freiman notes: "His sculpture... is rooted in a seemingly classicist sculptural tradition: it is figurative, exhibiting meticulous finish, attention to detail, an illusion of representation, a yearning for the 'truth'. On the other hand, an awareness of the failure of mediation, the impossibility of representation, the multiplicity of meanings, and the internal contradictions - all these render his work strikingly contemporary. The handiwork, the pedantic realistic coloring that follows the casting stage, draws the sculptural practice nearer to painting, and this is another crucial matter for Shachar." (Tami Katz-Freiman quoted in Gil Shachar, Herzliya Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue), 2002, p. 5). Nurit David discusses this specific work and comments: "In a fruit-encircled portrait reminiscent of Arcimboldo, Gil Shachar preserves the integrity of the face, his own face; with the carrot stuck in its mouth, the context here is erotic (auto-erotic) rather than lingual. The words of Joseph's brothers upon identifying his striped shirt (ktonet passim) from a distance may be applied to this self portrait, which is close-eyed like all the rest: 'Behold this dreamer cometh' (Genesis 37, 19)." (Nurit David quoted in Gil Shachar, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (exhibition catalogue), 1998)