Richard Bilan: Figures on a Cliff/ Polish French Jewish Modernism Expressionism

Description: Richard Bilan born 1946, Krakow, Poland Figures on a Cliff Original Hand-Signed Ink Drawing - circa the 1970s Artist Name: Richard Bilan Title: Figures on a cliffSignature Description: Signed in pencil lower middle Technique: Ink on paper Size: 18 x 16 cm / 7.09" x 6.3" inch Frame: The drawing is matted and framed Condition: Very good condition.Artist's Biography: Richard Bilan, painter, sculptor and graphic artist, born 1946, Krakow, Poland. Education 1969-1973 Bezalel, Jerusalem 1974-1976 Ecole Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, Paris. Richard Bilan, whose life-story nourishes his artistic creation, lives and works simultaneously in three different centers around the world – Tel Aviv, Warsaw, and Paris. His artistic creation stems mainly from his life experience as a boy born in devastated Poland in 1946, to parents who were holocaust survivors. He was then orphaned at a young age, immigrated to Israel alone in the late 60's, and began his studies in Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem without knowing a single word of Hebrew. He received a scholarship and did his Masters in the National Superior School of Decorative Arts in Paris. His paintings abound with colorful circus-like figures, full of action and movement, while his sculptural works are created in a process of wrapping children's dolls that he collects in shrouds.Awards and Prizes 1971 The America-Israel Cultural Foundation prize, Israel 1976 First prize for etching artist, Orly, France 1976 Du Haut-Pavé honour prize, Paris 1988 first prize for wood engravings, Elancourt, France 1991 First prize for graphic artist, Lodge, Poland. The painter - engraver - sculptor Richard Bilan was born in 1946 in Krakow, Poland, to a Holocaust survivors. In 1968, he emigrated to Israel where he attended the Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts in Jerusalem, graduating in 1973. He was awarded the Sharet Foundation Prize and a scholarship for artistic creation from the French government. From 1974 to 1976, Richard Bilan continued his training at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, a school specializing in visual communications and graphic art. Through his work, Richard Bilan reveals and describes his travels, his loves, his encounters, his friends, his tragedies and his heroes. In constant search of images and sensations, his sensitivity allows him to feel what surrounds him or to describe a universe most often invisible to the uninitiated. An eternal traveler between three countries of which he feels a citizen (Poland, Israel, France), Richard Bilan navigates between reality and the past, between middle age and childhood. Many of his works are in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, the Musée de Tour in France, the Museum of Israell, the Klodzko Museum (Poland), as well as in numerous international private collections. The artist writes "Everything inspires me. There is no object, no thing, no blade of grass that would not have a soul worthy of a portrait" or "I navigate between reality and the past, middle age and childhood, I am an eternal traveler between three countries of which I feel a citizen."Bilan is a storyteller as well as a painter; His art works are filled with rich fabric of poetic images and figures, a world that composed of his childhood memories- the neighborhood circus and the life among the nomads and the gypsies. "'Grotesque' is a suitable term for describing Bilan's works, Not 'grotesque' in the current fashionable meaning, but grotesque in its opposite meaning – an existential anxiety demonstrated by comic and bizarre gestures. Images of horror and fear are known in art history – Munch's The Scream, Picasso's Guernica, and Francis Bacon's portrait of the Pope. Looking at the entire series of works enhances the sense of the grotesque parody emerging from each one of them... covering it by a layer of irony and humor that makes it just as tragic as a tragedy declared overtly." - Yoantan AmirSelected one person exhibitions 1975 F.I.A.C Art Fair, Paris 1976 Shatz Gallery, Jerusalem 1976 Du Haut-Pavé Gallery, Paris 1977 Shamir Gallery, Tel Aviv. 1977 Libriarie Nicaise Gallery, Paris 1979 Aranella Gallery, Paris 1980 Cour d'Ingres Gallery, Paris 1981 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv. 1982 Aktuaryus Gallery, Strasbourg, France 1982 Cimaise Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland 1990 Galeria 86, Lodz, Poland 1992 Artists' House, Jerusalem 1993 Figures, Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv 1995 Galeria 86, Lodz, Poland 1995 Mediart Art Contemporain, Paris 1995 Mag Gallery, Paris 1996 Adine fine art Gallery, New- York 1997 Boundary Gallery, London 1997 Agi Katz Gallery, London 1998 Art Expo, New- York 2000 Art Expo, Miami 2000 The Tale and the Color Spot, Bar-Am Museum, Kibbutz Bar- Am 2005 Galeria 86, Lodz, Poland 2005 Galerie Art Montparnasse, Paris 2006 Grand Tour, Galleria J, Lodz, Poland 2007 The Closed Circle, the 17th Jewish Culture Festival, Krakow, Poland. 2007 Culture Institute, Krakow, Poland 2007 Poverty Trap, 2 worlds Gallery, Lodz, Poland 2009 New Works, Galerie Art Montparnasse, Paris 2009 Black/White, Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv 2011 Eternel Retour, Galerie Art Montparnasse,Paris Selected group exhibitions 1977 Aranella Gallery, Paris 1978 City Hall, Cherbourg, France 1980 Modern Art Museum, Paris 1981 Taipei Art Guild, Taiwan 1982 Contemporary Engraving, Hotel de la Monnaie, Paris 1984 20 Contemporary Engravers, Seyne sur Mer, France 1984 Arcus gallery, Paris 1987 Arsenal Museum, Granvelines, France 1989 Xylon Museum, Schwetzingen, Germany 1991 SAGA gallery, Paris 1991 Arts Print Lover, Grand Palais, Paris 1992 20 contemporary engraving around Rembrandt, Château de Bourdeilles, Dordogne, France 1996 The Jewish Nexus, The Meizel Museum, Denver, U.S.A 2000 A view to the next Millennium, Engel Gallery, Tel- Aviv 2000 Art Expo, New-York 2004 Four Israelis in Paris, Engel Gallery, Tel aviv 2004 From Poland To Paris, Rachi Center, Paris 2006 Duo exhibition- Richard Bilan & Pawel Jocz, Art Montparnasse Gallery, Paris 2007 The Search for the Lost City, Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv. 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Price: 200 USD

Location: Tel Aviv

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