GIL HALLER
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Photo: Amit Sha'al, Calcalist
"In his exceptional style, inspired by vintage magazine images and old family photo
albums that go back to the early 20th century, Gil Haller manages to distill
history and culture into paintings and drawings that serve almost as time capsules: life that has stood still.

Haller’s palette draws an interesting and unique black and white range of colors,
managing to extract a wide tonal range of emotional expressions, of time and space,
temperature and mental statements. 

Haller’s outstanding talent does not come out only by his phenomenal technical
abilities, which by themselves are considered virtuoso, but by his ability to avoid sliding into over-sentimental expressions or mannerism. The restraint in Haller's paintings and superb punctuality give the feeling of a time-tunnel that the perceiver is being drawn into, yet without a nostalgic and saccharine remembrance.
These paintings crafted by Haller are a mirror to a lost period, without being anachronistic; they are wonderfully contemporary, fresh, yet very touching
and moving.

But along with his 'historic' paintings, Haller practices perceptual colorful compositions, taken from his everyday life, travels and immediate family sights and experiences. These pastoral landscapes and mis-en- scènes, might be perceived as a multi-dimensional doubting examination of the current present, which does not come across as taken straight from reality, where as the realistic b&w images are crystal clear but taken from a far, distant recollection, as trying to cling on a solid, safe to remember past.

Gil Haller carries the torch of excellence in contemporary painting, while respecting yet questioning representational imagery of past culture, along with the tradition of realistic-figurative painters" 

Sagi Refael
Art Historian & Curator
February 2011





b. 1979 ●  Israel


Education
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2021-             MA Caltural studies 


2016-2020    BA Humanities


2001-2004     Jerusalem Studio School (Israel Hershberg's master class).

                   Courses with Stuart Shills, Neal Reilly, Rita Natarova,
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                   Eldar Farber and Ben Tritt.

                         Open university B.A Humanities and social sciences

2002-2003    ISA (International school of art) Umbria, Italy.

                  2 semesters on a student exchange program.

                   Studied with Bruce Gagnier, Ron Cohen, Dan Gustin

                   and Allen Feltus.

2000-2001     Jerusalem print shop.  Etching techniques with Sharon Polyakine 

1997-2000     Studied sculpture in "Create a space" – Paul Harrison Taylor.



Exhibitions 

2022         Hapoalim bank annual exhibition, Tel-Aviv (Group)

2022         Royal Scottish academy 196th annual exhibition 

2021          Levinski annual exhibition, Tel-Aviv (Group)

2021          Hapoalim bank annual exhibition, Tel-Aviv (Group)

2020          The Jerusalem center for near eastern studies, landscape-still life-portrait (Group)

2019            Forte gallery, Tel-Aviv - Raft (Group)

2019            Hapoalim bank annual exhibition, Tel-Aviv (Group)

2018            The Knesset (Israeli parliament), 70 years old (Group)

2018            The Jewish federation, Santa Barbara, California - 70/70/70 (Group)

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2018            Stern gallery, Tel-Aviv - Relics (Solo)

2018            London art fair, Relics of tomorrow (Solo)

2015            Artstation gallery, Tel-Aviv - Have we met before ? (Solo)

2014            P8 gallery, Tel-Aviv - Tough and tender (Group)

2014            Artstation gallery, Tel-Aviv (Group)   

2013            SWAB, Barcelona international contemporary art fair

2013            Artstation gallery, Tel-Aviv - Point of views (Group)

2012            Artspace gallery, Jerusalem - You had to be there (Solo)

2012            Ferrate art gallery, Tel-Aviv (Group)

2012            Stern gallery, Tel-Aviv - On the line (Group) 

2012            An open gallery on buildings, Tel-Aviv municipality        

2012            Me contemporary, Copenhagen - What is Real? (Group)

2011            Stern gallery, Tel-Aviv - What's in a landscape? (Group)

2011             Preview Berlin

2011             Stern gallery, Tel-Aviv - Petite (Group)

2011             Tel Aviv Harbor, Toy (Group)

2011             Tavi art gallery, Tel-Aviv - Ghosts (Group)

2010             Tavi art gallery, Tel-Aviv - Crossing of the fantasy (Group)

2010             Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris (Group)

2010             Secret art - Leumi bank (Group)

2009             Stern Gallery, Tel-Aviv – Objects of desire (Group)

2008             Stern Gallery, Tel-Aviv – Israeli (Group)

2007             Stern Gallery, Tel-Aviv – New Faces (Group)

2007             Reshamim III - The Third Jerusalem Drawing Biennial

2007             Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem - Peephole (Solo)

2007             Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem - Summer group show (Group)

2006             Stern Gallery, Tel-Aviv – Summer group show (Group)

2005             Artspace, Jerusalem - No strings attached (Solo)

2004             Artspace, Jerusalem – JSS graduates (Group)

2002             G8 Gallery Umbria, Italy (Group)

 



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  • Art
    • Black and white
    • Drawings
    • Airbnb series 2019
    • London art Fair 2018
    • Have we met before? 2015
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