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Avivit Ballas Baranes

Residing and working in Regavim Kibbutz

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Education:

1984 HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts, Ramat Hasharon 

1985 Art History Degree from Tel Aviv University 

1986 Lithography Atelier, Beaux-Arts, Paris 

1989 MA in Arts, University of Paris VIII 

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Ballas Baranes's work is characterized by a multiplicity and combination of materials, techniques, and media. The works have free pictorial stains alongside stylish graphic lines. The work is saturated with references from the art world that integrate with images that reflect borderline and ambivalent situations, such as cracks, bridges, and broken objects, or hidden elements such as roots, nervous systems, geological and topographic diagrams, microscopic photographs of plant cells and more. In the process of her work, Ballas Baranes covers erase and subtracts while leaving remnants, torn, partial testimonies, to what was present. This evidence calls for a fresh start to the search. This creates a cycle in the creative process that moves from construction to destruction and so on.

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Selected exhibitions:

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2017 "White on White: From Malevich to the present day",

group exhibition Mana-Katz Museum, Haifa.
Curators: Svetlana Reingold and Larissa Beliman
2016 "New Horizon for New Horizons", group exhibition, Ein Harod Art Center.
Curator: Yaniv Shapira
2010 - 2011 "Transition Area", solo exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Varda Steinlauf
2003 "Success", Solo Exhibition, French Institute Gallery, Dresden, Germany.
Curator: Jean-Lou Fujinia
1994 "Between White and White", solo exhibition, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan.

Curator: Miriam Tovia Boneh
2005 Award for Outstanding Artist, Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, Department of Artists and Athletes, Israel

www.avivitballasbaranes.com /avivit.ballas@gmail.com    

054-3083805