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Yifat Bezalel, A Broken Hill, 2010. Pencil and ink on paper, 220 x 150 cm © Tate 2011Gowen ContemporaryDirector : Laura GowenGallery creadon’s year: 2009www.gowencontemporary.cominfo@gowencontemporary.com+41 (0)22 700 30 684 rue Jean-­‐Calvin1204 Genève, SuisseFocus ardst : Yifat Bezalel, born in 1975Prices of the works: from 1 200 € to 12 000 €Yifat Bezalel’s work is essendally composed of pencil and ink drawings on paper or wood, installadons and films. Bezalel’s drawings and installadons are the representadon of the creadve process and thinking of the ardst. Her concerns with real/unreal, physical and metaphysical space, fullness/empdness, fragility and uncertainty are displayed in an inordinate space. The narradve of Bezalel’s works, only at a first sight easily accessible, conceals a deep reflecdon touching polidcal, religious and philosphical aspects, as well as formal and theoredcal aspects of the ardsdc research. Yifat Bezalel was born in 1975 in Tel Aviv and studied at the Betzalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. She currently lives and works in Tel-­‐Aviv. Bezalel has extensively exhibited in Israel and, since 2011, in Europe. Recent exhibidons include Alice in Wonderland at the Tate Liverpool, travelling to the the MART Rovereto and the Kunsthalle Hamburg (group exhibidon 2011-­‐2012) ; VIDA Museum Borgholm, Sweden (solo, 2012). Upcoming group exhibidons include : MACRO Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome (2013 ; Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice (2013).Presse mappe I Seite 83