Dafna Horev

Engaging with art for me is like diving into my micro cosmos self and beyond .
To my deepest feeling, the world that surrounds us, flowing through the human prism, pours into a deep and vast reservoir of our subconscious, emotions and souls, giving us its unique human interpretation. In the interface zone between the raw world of 'things in themselves' and the known interpretive world, in an alchemical-magical-synergistic process, art happens.
Flying cranes that embody for me the spiritual power to make a leap of faith into the unknown often pass through my works.
Primordial conch shells, guarding in their womb the secrets of eons, ripple reflections in which reality becomes an ever-changing impressionist vibration, heroes form mythological stories in which I find deep existential psyche truths, making an homage and personal interpretation of masterpieces - Thy all are the main subjects I deal with in my art.
To me, using gold paint in my works detaches the subject matter from the realistic context and elevates it to a metaphoric level. It grants a halo of secular holiness to human wonders, hopes and doubts.
I paint for many years. In recent years I ...

I graduated graphics studies in the 'Technion's External Studies Section' in Tel Aviv, and the the 'Midrasha' school of art in Ramat hasharon, Israel. I have a degree in Education through Art from Bretton Hall Colledge of the University of Leeds - Israeli extention.

Exhibitions and publications

• 100 female artists of the world - Publication on the big screen on Times Square NYC - June 2023
• Rossocinabro Gallery, Rome, Italy - June 2022
• Carrousel du Louvre – Exhibition in Salon international d’art contemporain , Novrember 2022
• Art Market - international art magazine, Gold list - Top contemporary artists of today, October 2022
• Art Market - international art magazine, Haiku Poems article, July 2022
• Artist Talk Magazine – June 2022
• 'Consciousness' - Art exhibition in Palazzo Albrizzi Capello, Venice Italy, May 2022
• La Tuscana Nuova - Magazine, April 2022
• Catalog ‘I Segnalati’ project, Budapest by Salvatore Russo, November 2021
• 'David' Michelangelo Prize by the "Art International Contemporary' magazine, Italy, January-February 2021
• Art Market - international art magazine, annual exhibition 2021
• Group exhibition - Digital exhibition curated by 'Israeli Art Market Magazine', 2021
• Raffaello & Canova prize by the "Art International Contemporary' magazine, Italy, November-December 2020
• Catalog '50 Contemporary Artists to Invest in' curated by Salvatore Russo and Francesco Saverio Russo, 2020
• Leonardo da Vinci 3ed prize by the "Art International Contemporary' magazine, It...