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Beverly Barkat

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awarded the Curator's Award at the 28th International Exhibition of Art & Design in Kyoto, Japan. Barkat started experimenting with new techniques, application methods and materials, the most prominent being the use of transparent PVC sheets as support for her paintings. These she paints in a manner reminiscent of
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from her formative years becoming more apparent. Although she continued to draw from life, she started to deconstruct the figure and at the same time, capture movement on a two-dimensional surface with dynamic lines. In 2014, her set of paintings were inspired by Japanese calligraphy. She was
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In 1995, Barkat worked in glass art in the Czech Republic and was invited to participate in an international glassblowing and sculpting symposium. From 2006 to 2009, Barkat studied painting in
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projects the spectator into another dimension, in which space is annulled and viewers find themselves in an imaginary place that evokes a story reaching back across the millennia."
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Kyoto Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan, 2014 The 28th International Exhibition of Art & Design (Kyoto City International Foundation Curators' Award).
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Luciano Benetton Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2015 Imago Mundi Israel / One – Contemporary Artists from Israel, curated by Naomi Aviv.
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to Louis and Lorna Sakalovsky, both artists themselves. In 1976, the family immigrated to Israel. She finished her studies at
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that dialogues with the mural paintings of the tree-lined allées and gardens of Villa Ludovisia, painted on the walls of the
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Barkat’s early paintings were largely figurative and in keeping with the traditional Western genres.
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Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy, 2017 Evocative Surfaces, curated by Sally Haftel Naveh.
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International Community House, Kyoto, Japan, 2014 The International Art & Design Exhibition.
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Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome, Italy, 2018 After the Tribes, curated by Dr. Giorgia Calo.
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was sponsored by Polo Museale del Lazio, Embassy of Israel in Italy and Nomas Foundation.
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N&N Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2013 N&N exhibition, curated by Naomi Aviv.
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Around 2009, her paintings took a turn towards formal abstraction, with influences of
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Model Series, Evocative Surfaces exhibition, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice 2017
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was curated by Dr. Giorgia Calo, who explains in the exhibition catalogue:
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Benetton, Luciano; Aviv, Naomi; Milo, Daniel S.; Ofrat, Gideon (2014).
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In 2018 Barkat held her second institutional exhibition in Italy, at
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Evocative Surfaces exhibition, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice 2017.
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Artists' House Tel Aviv, Israel, 2013 Screening Layers, curated by
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After The Tribes exhibition, Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome 2018
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After The Tribes exhibition, Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome 2018
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from the Department of Metalsmithing and Jewellery Design.
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Israeli Artist Turns Plastic Pollution Into ‘Earth Poetica’
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The Gottesman Family Aquarium Jerusalem, Israel, 2022,
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curated by Dr. Raffaella Frascarelli, Nomas Foundation
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Beverly Sakalovsky (later Barkat) was born in 1966 in
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Beverly Barkat working in her studio, in Jerusalem.
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South Africa
visual artist
Johannesburg, South Africa
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
BFA
Jerusalem Mayor
Minister of the Economy
Nir Barkat
Israel Hershberg
Jerusalem Studio School
Lennart Anderson
Raoul Middleman

Cubism
Abstract Expressionism
action painting
Outset Contemporary Art Fund
Palazzo Grimani
Venice

Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi
plastic waste
Jerusalem
Ground Zero
Model Series, Evocative Surfaces exhibition, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice 2017
Beverly Barkat working in her studio, in Jerusalem.
After The Tribes exhibition, Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome 2018
After The Tribes exhibition, Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome 2018
Smadar Sheffi

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