Michal Naaman

Michal Naaman

(b. 1951, Kvutzat Kinneret, Israel; lives and works in Tel Aviv)

A leading Israeli artist, Israel Prize Laureate Michal Na'aman began her career as a conceptual artist, a prominent disciple of Raffi Lavie. Through enigmatic collages which addressed questions of identity, gender (Queen Lear, Johan the Prophetess), language, religion (e.g. copying the Book of Ecclesiastes, Jehovah Über Alles), and politics (The Eyes of the Nation), she constructed a unique, sophisticated language founded on formal and linguistic associations to generate a rich, critical experience. Over the years Na'aman developed her later style: a living painting transpiring under the dead skin of masking tape. The full power of this mellow style was evident in her pivotal solo exhibition "Legion" at Tel Aviv Museum of Art (1989), where her paint-bleeding, wounded canvases dressed in masking tape emerged as a prime example of painting that is a corpus, a body which is a treasure map, striving to be a treasure itself. Na'aman introduced painting whose basic act is concealment of the painted subject, transforming the concealing signifier into an object that awakens the gaze's passion for that which is intended to be invisible to it.

Violet
Michal Naaman
Violet
2002
oil on masking tape
120
x
x
100
 cm
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Golden Fleece
Michal Naaman
Golden Fleece
2004
oil on masking tape
118
x
x
53
 cm
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The Simple Art of Murder
Michal Naaman
The Simple Art of Murder
2002
oil on masking tape
140
x
x
110
 cm
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Penguin Cutting
Michal Naaman
Penguin Cutting
2005
oil and pencil on canvas
60
x
x
40
 cm
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Dalia Maria
Michal Naaman
Dalia Maria
2006
oil and ink on canvas
20
x
x
40
 cm
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Sintax
Michal Naaman
Sintax
2015
oil on canvas
30
x
x
40
 cm
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The Other Side Of My Mouth
Michal Naaman
The Other Side Of My Mouth
2000
oil and masking tape on paper
52
x
90
x
 cm
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A Cut
Michal Naaman
A Cut
ca. 2000
oil and masking tape on paper
49
x
25
x
 cm
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Dutch Wife
Michal Naaman
Dutch Wife
ca. 2000
oil and masking tape on paper
44
x
53
x
 cm
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$
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