Yam Amrani – Winner of the 2023 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist
Jerusalem Artists’ House
Opening: 02.09Closing: 12.11
Free
Artists: Yam Amrani
Curator: Jonathan Gold
Yam Amrani is the winner of the 2023 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist. In their statement, the prize committee members – Eyal Sasson, Natalia Zourabova, and Jonathan Gold — noted: The large and impressive body of work created by Yam Amrani in recent years attests to a young painter who is shaping an independent artistic path and language. In his large-scale paintings, he re-examines the language of abstract painting while interweaving aspects of contemporary visibility in a world dominated by digital screens. Amrani’s painterly work is based on abstraction of complex images, mainly representations of the organic body. By means of collage, he fuses these images with a wide spectrum of pictorial gestures, to create a range of color applications, oscillating between the expressive and the graphic. Amrani introduces a fascinating combination of broad, erupting brushstrokes with flat and restrained dabs of color. Via deconstruction and reconstruction, he creates a unified, cohesive, and engaging painterly language.
About the gallery
The Jerusalem Artists House is situated in a historic building that once housed "The Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts," founded by Boris Schatz in 1906, today the current Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design. For a time the building housed the Bezalel National Museum, precursor of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. When the Israel Museum was opened, the collections of the Bezalel National Museum were transferred to it, where they formed the initial core collection of the Museum. Since 1965, the House has served as home to the Association for Jerusalem Artists. In this capacity, the House has become a dynamic center for exhibitions, displaying unique and varied works of both Israeli and international artists. The annual exhibition plan includes a series focusing on prominent young artists exhibiting their works for the first time, as well as a series of retrospective works by veteran artists. In addition, the Artists House displays group exhibitions on a wide range of subjects, joint presentations between Israeli and international artists, as well as a variety of other activities.
