ARCHIVE: EXHIBITORS 2009
VARDA CARMELI
Varda Carmeli (born in Israel, 1948) is a multidisciplinary artist (painting, installation and photography). Since 2004 she has been focusing on photographic projects, combining subjective documentary, street snapshot and innovative photography.
Varda Carmeli dedicated herself to art in 1989, after carrying out an International Marketing business as well as Start-up projects. She has lived for several years in South America, Central America and Spain.
Varda has specialized in photography and printing at the Tel-Aviv Art Museum and at the "Midrasha" Academy of Art. She has had numerous painting and photography exhibitions in galleries and Museums in Israel and around the world and her works can be found in collections both locally and abroad. Among other things, she created a setting for the musical "in de 30" (Costumes by Giorgio Armani) in Holland; her art work is part of the collection of the Musée de la Poste, Paris, France; and she has received a prize from the President of Italy.
In 2007 Varda Carmeli opened Studio 20 in Old Jaffa, Israel, which serves as a photography studio as well as a gallery hosting artists engaged in contemporary photography.
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Varda Carmeli
Studio 20 / 20, Mazal Arieh Alley, Old Jaffa / P.o.box 177, Hod-Hasharon, Israel / www.vardacarmeliart.com
Beijing – An Image About to Change, 2008
The Photographs were taken in the spring of 2007 in the ancient traditional quarters of Beijing called hutongs.
The Panoramic photographs, built up of iconic objects from various neighbourhoods that were recorded and worked on to form an open, allegorical picture of the street and its residents.
This series enable Varda Carmeli to display an image of ancient scenes and lifestyles that have survived up to the present day a moment before the change has occurred.
Virtual Reality, 2007
Varda Carmeli uses the camera lens to document the image of objects and their reflected aspects by the constrictive boundaries of the frame and the optical viewer of the camera. The images might be a distortion of the sensual perception or, possibly, its duplication. The viewer proceeds within a reality that is actual or virtual, existing or non-existing. By this means the photographs enables the viewers to conduct a hypothetical discussion with regard to what they see and to the source of their visual perceptions.
A Scenic Journey, 2007
The photographs were taken while travelling in Germany by car for an entire day in the period between autumn and winter. These are monochromatic photographs of landscapes with varying degrees of colourfulness of light and dark that create a feeling of beauty on the one hand and on the other hand of struggle and emotion, a pastoral antithesis both threatening and charged that redefines the relationship in general and the pictorial in particular between the object and the subject. Travelling while looking ahead emphasizes the helplessness of photographing images from the past.
This series invites the viewer to be involved and challenges to confront the issue of remembrance.
Varda Carmeli - Painting, Photography, Installation
2002 - First Prize, Musée de la Poste, Paris, France
2002 - Prize from the President of Italy
2002 - Setting for the musical "in de 30" (Costumes by Giorgio Armani), Holland.
2003 - Award of Excellence, Manhattan Arts International, NYC.
2004 - International Peace Action "Vaterland” 2004, Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
1995 - “Different Regions”, Nama Art Gallery, Gordon St., Tel-Aviv, Israel
1997 - “New Works”, The Israeli Painters and Sculptors Association, Tel-Aviv, Israel
1997 - “Paint & Print”, Yad Labanim Art Gallery, Ra’anana, Israel
1999 - “Close to Earth Close to Heaven”, Yefet 28 Art Gallery, Jaffa, Israel. Curator:Dr.Dorit Kedar (Catalogue)
2000 - Kfar-Saba Municipal Art Gallery, Kfar-Saba, Israel. Curator: Dr. Dorit Kedar
2001 - "Actual Barriers", The Artists House, Jerusalem (Catalogue)
2002 - “Homage to Rosalda”, Museo Gilardi, Forte dei Marmi, Lucca, Toscana, Italy
2002 - “New Material”, Bet Gabriel at the Kinneret, Jordan Valley, Israel
2002 - "New(s) Works", HaMishkan LeOmanut, Holon, Israel. Curator: Anat Hofi Ben-Tzur (Catalogue)
2003 - "Acqva MMIII", "Antologica di Varda Carmeli", San Pellegrino, Italy
2004 - "Eggs", Mishkan Amanim, Herzliya, Israel. Curator: Varda Genosar
2004 - "Security Wall", Gallery 24, Berlin, Germany
2005 - “Stripping”, Installation, Tova Osman Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2005 - “Transparency in the Public Domain", Jaffa’s Courtyard, Israel
2005 - "Mali - Woman Power", Seamgallery, Megadim, Israel. Curator: Sima Sela (Catalogue)
2007 - "Virtual Reality", Studio 20, Old Jaffa, Israel. Curator: Daphna Naor (Catalogue)
2008 - "Abu-Dis", Photographs, Studio 20, Old Jaffa, Israel
2008 – "Beijing - An Image About to Change", Studio 20, Old Jaffa, Israel (Catalogue)
Group Exhibitions (part)
1993 - The Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv, Israel
1998 - “Israeli Women’s Image – 1948-1998”, Yad Labanim Art Gallery, Raanana, Israel
1998 - I.A.C, “50 Years to Israel”, Art Gallery Zero, Barcelona, Spain
1999 - AAIAA, Correr Pocket Gallery, Art Palazzo Art Addiction, Venice, Italy
1999 - "Milestone for Peace”,The Center of the International Artists Museum, Worldwide (Catalogue)
2000 - “Greeting of Peace”, The Peace Gallery, Givat-Haviva, Israel (Catalogue)
2000 - “Beyond the Principles of Pleasure”, Ecology Art, The New Gallery, Jerusalem
2001 - DOCUMENTA USA, Museum of New Art (MONA), Detroit, USA
2002 - Musée de la Poste, Paris. (First prize, Europ’Art 2002 competition, Paris, France)
2003 - East-West Gallery, Milano, Italy
2003 - Museo Gilardi & Spazio Pardini, Lido dei Camaiore, Toscana, Italy
2003 - Museo Gilardi, Forte dei Marmi, Lucca, Toscana, Italy
2003 - Gallery 24, Berlin, Germany
2004 - Contemporary Art Museum Bat-Yam, Israel. Curator: Hily Govrin (Catalogue)
2004 - 5th Bienale of Sacred Art, Italy and Spain. Curator: Monsenionr S.M. Soldini (Catalogue)
2004 - Assemblage, International exhibition. Gallery 24, Berlin, Germany
2005 - “Walking on Eggshells”, Contemporary Art Museum, Ashdod, Israel. Curator: Yael Wiesel (Catalogue)
2005 - “Flowering Garden”, Contemporary Art Museum, Bat-Yam, Israel. Curator: Hily Govrin (Catalogue)
2005 - “Transparency in the Public Domain", Installation, Alternativ Art Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
2006 - Point of View, Weisbaden, Germany
2007 - "Indwelling: Living in a Female Body", Cooper Union, NYC. Curator: Joyce Tenneson
2007 - "Park Lachish", Photography, Contemporary Art Museum, Ashdod, Israel. Curator: Yael Wiesel
2008 - "International Woman's Day 2008", Tova Osman Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2008 - "Traditions, visions and Herstory: Experiments in Wisdon", Rhonda Schaller Studio, 547 West 27, NY
2008 - "La Poste inspire des Artistes" , Musée de La Poste, Paris, France (Catalogue)
2008 - Turin Photo Festival – "Un Altro Sguardo". Torino, Italy. Curators: Mauro Villona and Lidia Urani (Catalogue)
2008 - Art Festival, 9 KunstKreuz 2008 in Berlin-Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany (Catalogue)
2008 - "Old Jaffa Artists", The Old Jaffa Museum of Antiquities, Old Jaffa Site. Curator: “Artura”. (Catalogue)
Publications
1994 - Art 2000, Israeli Artists, Studio Chayat, Israel
2006 - Art in Israel, Contemporary Artists, World of Art Books, London
2006 - Famous, Contemporary Artists, Masters of Today, Word Of Art Publishing, Sweden
2007 - The Artists Track In Israel, Bella Shomer-Zaichik, Modan Publishing, Israel
2008 - Contemporary Art Studio, Beijing Art Media Centre, China
Video documentation on Varda Carmeli by Mr. Peretz van Raalte, “PvR video studios”,
can be viewed at the Gabriel Sherover Information Center for Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
Member - IMPACT, The Professional Visual Artists Association, Israel.
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