Zahara Rubin
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Zahara Rubin (born 1932) is an Israeli sculptor, painter and artist. During her career, she has received several Israeli art awards.
Mishmar HaEmek
. She is a member of Kibbutz Bet Zera, in the Jordan Valley
, where she lives and has her studio. As a mother of four and having worked in different sectors of the Kibbutz, she went to study sculpture with sculptor Yaakov Epstein, in the Plastic Arts Academy of Bat-Yam. A few years later she completed further studies with sculptor Dalia Mei'ri at Emek Yizrael College
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Relief Painting is a kind of a flat sculpture. It is a unique technique, developed by Rubin, that uses various and different materials. With this technique she expresses, in a sensitive plastic forms, her feelings towards her surroundings. The contrasts between the artist and her human milieu create conflicts that, being stormy, hard and unsolved has a lot of influence on the forming of the work.
In Soft Painting - sheaves of colored fibers laid on a felt sheet replaces the brush and palette of the painter. Once the 'painting' is finished the combination of forms and colors is stapled to the sheet of felt with a special instrument. The results - big pictures, abstract in nature or of imaginary creatures in magic atmosphere – are rich in colors and forms.
Rubin has permanent exhibitions in the Engel Galleries in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem.
Early life and education
In 1950 Rubin graduated the Shomryia High-School in KibbutzKibbutz
A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...
Mishmar HaEmek
Mishmar HaEmek
Mishmar HaEmek is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the western Jezreel Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Megiddo Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 964....
. She is a member of Kibbutz Bet Zera, in the Jordan Valley
Jordan Valley (Middle East)
The Jordan Valley forms part of the larger Jordan Rift Valley. It is 120 kilometers long and 15 kilometers wide, where it runs from Lake Tiberias in the north to northern Dead Sea in the south. It runs for an additional 155 kilometer south of the Dead Sea to Aqaba, an area also known as Wadi...
, where she lives and has her studio. As a mother of four and having worked in different sectors of the Kibbutz, she went to study sculpture with sculptor Yaakov Epstein, in the Plastic Arts Academy of Bat-Yam. A few years later she completed further studies with sculptor Dalia Mei'ri at Emek Yizrael College
Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel
Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel is a college located in the Jezreel Valley of Israel, between the cities Afula and Nazareth, and next to Kfar Gid'on, Tel Adashim and Mizra....
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Media
At present she uses a variety of formative arts methods to express herself, mainly bronze sculptures, as well as wood and marble sculptures, "Relief Painting", "Soft Painting" technique, and tapestries.Career
Rubin is a member of the Israeli Union of Painters & Sculptors and the Kibbutz Movement's Artists Association; she had a number of solo exhibitions, participated in many groups exhibitions in Israel and other countries; her works can be found in many private collections worldwide. On April 1989, hotelier Leon Taman hosted the then Italian Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita and his Minister of Foreign Affairs Giulio Andreotti at the Hotel Daniel and presented them with Rubin's sculpture Dove of Peace.Works
Rubin's bronze sculptures explore a variety of human issues, like adolescence, duality, femininity, fertility, parenthood, life in a rural area and worries-free childhood in Nature; from observation of natural processes and forms vis-a-vis their parallels in human life she created sculptures representing sprouting, growth, flowering, ripening, decay and continuity of life. Other series represent the erotic character common to Flora and humans. In recent years she tends to work on subjects like inter-human relationships, closeness and separation, oddities and socially acceptable, close-by and far-away, giving artistic expression to accumulating emotions, transmission of sentiments and feelings between spouses, longings for relationship and love of the family.Relief Painting is a kind of a flat sculpture. It is a unique technique, developed by Rubin, that uses various and different materials. With this technique she expresses, in a sensitive plastic forms, her feelings towards her surroundings. The contrasts between the artist and her human milieu create conflicts that, being stormy, hard and unsolved has a lot of influence on the forming of the work.
In Soft Painting - sheaves of colored fibers laid on a felt sheet replaces the brush and palette of the painter. Once the 'painting' is finished the combination of forms and colors is stapled to the sheet of felt with a special instrument. The results - big pictures, abstract in nature or of imaginary creatures in magic atmosphere – are rich in colors and forms.
Prizes
- 1972 – Education and Culture Ministers Prize for Arts Teachers
- 1976 - The Havatzelet Foundation for Sculptors
- 1977 - The Jordan Valley Regional Council's Prize for the Arts
Selection of solo exhibitions
- 1972 – HaKibutz HaArtzi Building, Tel-Aviv
- 1976 – Wilfried Israel MuseumWilfrid B. IsraelWilfrid B. Israel was a German-born Jew who played an important role in the Kindertransport and the rescue of Jews in the Holocaust. He was killed when his plane was shot down by the Nazis. -Biography:...
, HaZore'a - 1979 – BookShop Gallery, London
- 1982 – Uri & Rami Nechushtan Museum, Ashdot-Ya'akovAshdot Ya'akov MeuhadAshdot Ya'akov Meuhad is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located to the south of the Sea of Galilee near the Jordanian border and covering 4,300 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 355....
- 1983 – Yad LaBanim Museum, Tiberias
- 1985 – Meisner Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
- 1987 – Tirosh Gallery, Tel Aviv
- 1991 – Culture Palace, NetanyaNetanyaNetanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...
- 1992 – "The Tower", Tel Aviv
- 1994 – Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv
- 1996 – Moriya, Eilat
- 2003 – Culture Palace, Kfar SavaKfar SabaKfar Saba , officially Kfar Sava, is a city in the Sharon region, of the Center District of Israel. At the end of 2009, Kfar Saba had a total population of 83,600.-History:...
- 2004 – Culture Palace, Kfar Sava
- 2009 – Castra, HaifaHaifaHaifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...
- 2010 – The Scots Hotels' Gallery, St. Andrew's Glilee, Tiberias
Rubin has permanent exhibitions in the Engel Galleries in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem.