Moshe Gordon

M. Gordon – About Me
Moshe Gordon

Born 1949 in Ramle, Israel. Now Lives and Creates in Mitzpe-Ramon.

1979 – 1983 Founder and manager of the Glass Art School in Tel-Aviv.

1988 – 1993 Co-founder of the Art boarding school in Mitzpe-Ramon.

From a young age I was exposed to the abstract and to the ready-made.

In my youth, I drew and sculpted, using anything I could put my hands on: Fabrics, metals, plastics… anything and everything.

In the ’80s I focused on glass art and since the early ’90s I deal mainly with paper, and lots of it: Folding, rolling and creasing.

After experimenting with other materials, I found that paper is the ultimate for me, as it is the best material in the creator’s hand, being submissive and not requiring strength and muscle.

As we grow and become a digital society, books and encyclopedias are more and more done with and thrown out, unneeded. I take them back in, liberate them from the horror of becoming dead waste under pounding blades, and give them some extra life span, this time – as artworks.

My work develops intuitively, without preliminary sketches.

The process can be endless and somewhat of a Sisyphean work… until I feel it is ready.

I find my sources of inspiration mos...

Exhibitions:
1988 Group Exhibition, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
1992 Solo Exhibition – Many H, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 Group Exhibition – Gravity, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 Group Exhibition – Time for Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 Group Exhibition – Bloch Group, Haifa, Israel
2007 Group Exhibition – Globe, Tel Aviv
2007 2012 Horace Richter gallery artist, Old Jaffa, Israel
2008 Group Exhibition – "Mahabil" – Coffee, Horace Richter gallery,
Old Jaffa, Israel
2008 Paper Art Biennale - Material and Immaterial – Eretz Israel Museum, Israel
2008 Group Exhibition – The art Gallery, Iavne, Israel
2008 Solo Exhibition – Art Center, Ramot Hashvim, Israel
2010 Group Exhibition – The art Gallery, Iavne, Israel
2010 Group Exhibition – Contemporary Art hangar, Kfar Vitkin, Israel
2011 International group exhibition, Vilfrid Museum, In-between,
Kibutz Hazorea / Beer Sheva Museum, Israel
2011 Group Exhibition - Hubris of Passion, Horace Richter gallery,
Old Jaffa, Israel
2012 Group Exhibition - Path, Horace Richter gallery,
Old Jaffa, Israel
2012 Art Fair – Fresh Paint, Israel
2012 Solo Exhibition, Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Torino, Italy
2013 Art Fair – Fresh Paint, Israel
2013 Art Fair – Fresh Paint, Milano, Italy
2013 Solo Exhibit...