Eldar Farber | Winner of the 2011 Miron Sima Visual Arts Award

Winner of the 2011 Miron Sima Visual Arts Award

Eldar Ferber is one of the most important realist artists in Israel. His paintings are thoughtful painterly constructions that are precise and faithful to reality whilst also being sensitive and full of wonder for the nature he depicts. His painting method is based on deconstructing the view into its abstract components – splashes of colors and lines – that at the end of this process, make up the painting not through preconception of its formal conventions, but through examination, trial and error. In contrast to the endless sequence of images that floods us today, in his work, Farber offers a different kind of experience – that of focused, intensive and extended observation.