DAPHNE HOREV
Engaging with art, for me, is like looking into my microcosm self and beyond.
While painting, I set myself free from the grasp of everyday perception of reality. To my deep feeling, the world surrounding us flows through a human prism, pours into a deep and vast pool of our subconsciousness, emotions, and souls, and giving us its humanly unique interpretation. In the interface zone between the two worlds – the raw world of ‘things themselves as the artist feels with his senses and the known interpreted world, in an alchemy-magical synergistic process, art happens.
In recent years I have integrated gold paint and gold leaves in my works. To me, It detaches the subject matter from the realistic context and elevates it to a metaphoric level.
I want to grant a halo of secular holiness to human wonders, doubts, and yearnings embodied in simple things like a flight of cranes or a shell lying on the sand after sunset.
I have been painting for many years. In recent years I have been using digital tools in my art.
My work can be printed on different materials - canvas, glass, high-quality paper, and silver metallic. Each one produces different qualities. Printed on silver metallic brightens the glow of the gold color and enhances the gap between light and shadow. Printed on glass or plexiglass, put on top of a lightbox deepens colors and spreads a colored glow around it. Adding gold paint and gold leaves on my mixed media works printed on canvas provides depth and sparkling brilliance and makes each one slightly different. Each work is printed in a limited edition of 75; each print is numbered and manually signed.
EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONS
2018 Art International Contemporary Magazine, Italy. 2017 Jorge Jurado gallery, Bogota, Colombia,
‘Alchemic Body’.
2017 Anima Mundi ‘Visions’, Venice, Italy.
2017 My work on a book’s cover-’King of gold and blood’
by Gabriela A.Rotem, Kineret-Zmora publish house.
2017 Israeli Art Market Online Gallery- Summer Sale. 2017 Art Market - International Art Magazine
‘THE GOLD LIST’
Top Contemporary Artists Of Today.
2017 44 DEGREES Online Art Magazine ‘Women artists’.
2016 The national theater ‘Habima’, ‘Running thoughts’,
Tel Aviv, Israel.
2016 44 DEGREES Online Art Magazine ‘Colors’.
2016 Israeli Art Market Online Gallery
‘The Big Exhibition’.
2015 The national theater ‘Habima’, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2015 Hangar 2, Jaffa harbor,Tel Aviv, Israel.
2015 Art & About Gallery, Jaffa harbor, Tel Aviv.
2015 Expo 2015 Millan -Trezzo Sull’Adda, Italy.
2013 My work on a book’s cover-’Every story is a sudden cat’ by Gabriela A.Rotem, Kineret-Zmora Publis House.
2005 The City Gallery of Kfar Saba, ‘Red’, Israel.
1987 Neville Gallery, Toronto, Canada.