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Relationship status

in a relationship

College / University

2005-2007 Rijks Academie vanbeeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.

Program

Fine Art

Graduation

1 January 2007

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Digital, Drawing, Installation, Performance, Sculpture, Video

I am...

Name: Gal Kinan, 28.1.1971, Burn in Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Live & work in Amsterdam.
E-Mail: galkinan@hotmail.com, gal.kinan@gmail.com


Education:

2005-2007 Rijks Academie vanbeeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.
1992-1996 B.F.A. Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.

Awards:

Fonds Voor Beeldende Kunsten Vormgeving En Bouwkunst /
Bassistipendium.
2003 “Young Artist Award”, Ministry of Education &Culture, Israel.
2003 “Young Artist Award”, Janco Dada Museum, Israel
2002 Bernard & Gosti Reder Sculpture Award, Israel.
Elhanani Award, Israel


Selected Group Exhibitions:

Jan 2008 "Raw Esperanto"Gallery MAMA Showroom, Witte De Wite straat
Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
July 2007 "L'enfer, c'est les autres" Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam.
Apr 2007 “Frauhaus” The Agency Gallery, London, Great Britain.
Feb 2007 “Meat district” Gallery MAMA Showroom, Witte De Wite straat,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
May 2005 “Die Neuen Hebraer”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin,
Germany.
Feb 2005 By Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv’ Israel.
Feb 2004 Prizes in Art and Design, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel.
Nov 2003 UCLA Wight Biennial, Los Angeles, USA.
Jun 2003 "Affirmative Action" Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Feb 2003 "Sandals" Group Exhibition at the Fashion House COMME IL FAUT,
Tel-Aviv, Israel.



Selected Solo Exhibitions:

Mar 2005 New Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Petach-Tikva, Israel.
Dec 2003 "Lighthouse" at Janco-Dada Museum, Ein-Hod, Israel.
Feb 2003 Gil & Moty Home Galery, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Jun 2002 Gallery of Bezalel Academy, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

About my artwork

Gal Kinan / Works 2005-2008

In the last few years my art has changed and developed, as I have become more and more interested in robotic sculpture. I have created a body of work dealing with the mechanical movements of the human body. Technology is mostly used to establish power and control, but my interest lies more in describing relationships through mechanical bodies. In my vision, the flesh is literally turned into a mechanical device. When technology tries to show emotional response, it escapes from its original purpose and opens up many possibilities for itself. I use kinetic sculptures, installations and drawings to explore those ideas.
The series She is a machine (2005), was done during my first year in the Netherlands. I was interested at the time in modernism and especially in the work of Oskar Schlemmer. I felt then that my body was a tool detached from my mind, and I was interested how Schlemmer dealt with bodies and movements. I was fascinated by the way he limits his dancers' bodies to a shape, reducing their figures to simple architectural forms, controlling their movement through his design. In this series, I was trying to explore the relation ships between the designer and his designs.
IN the work "Father no. 3784" (2006), the audience encounter with a big Father figure who has a huge robot arm and a doll daughter dangling at the end of it. The mechanical arm spins the doll through a series of complex movements at a slow and graceful speed using a computer programme to control it. The sculpture depicts at once brutality and tenderness. The warmth and intimacy that is inevitably connected with our flesh .the tender embrace of a parent or the comforting contact of familiar skin, is turned into cement and metal. The pre programmed movements of the figure initially appear violent, but in their repetition, they reveal the inability to break free of the decorum of tradition of family relationships.

Gal Kinan

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