Lot 39
  • 39

Ilit Azoulay

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Ilit Azoulay
  • Room #8
  • signed Ilit Azoulay and again in Hebrew, titled, dated 2011 and numbered E. 1/5 (on the reverse of each print)
  • four archival pigment prints, separately framed
  • Individual: 39 3/8 by 65 3/8 in. overall: 39 3/8 by 261 3/8 in.
  • Individual: 100 by 166 cm. overall: 100 by 664 cm
  • Executed in 2011, this work is from an edition of 5, plus 2 artist proof's.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist, 2011

Exhibited

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, 2011 (another example exhibited)
New York, Andrea Meislin Gallery, Room #8, March-April 2013 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Orit Bulgaro, Ed., Ilit Azoulay: Finally Without End, Berlin, 2014, page 37, illustrated, pages 73-90 details illustrated
Suzanne Landau, In the Studio: Ilit Azoulay, Art In America, New York, November 2013, pages 164-165 illustrated

Condition

The work is in excellent condition. This work has not been examined out of its frame.
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Catalogue Note

Ilit Azoulay, graduate of the Bezalel Academy, has earned critical and commercial acclaim, receiving awards such as the prestigious Tel Aviv Museum of Art Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist and Israel Museum Gerard Levy Prize for a Young Photographer. Another version of the present work, in the panorama format and measuring 150 by 1000 cm, is in the collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Azoulay created the work, in part, by carefully composing photographed objects collected from buildings marked for demolition in south Tel Aviv into a digital collage, where superficially familiar articles become abstracted through their placement, scale and manipulation. The title of these works is a play on the word "roommate."

A more recent work, Shifting Degrees of Certainty, can currently be seen Museum of Modern Art, New York’s Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, which will be on view until March 2016.