Igal Ahouvi
Art Collection

Igal Ahouvi Art Collection is delighted to lend the important video installation People’s passion, transparency, mobility, all surrounded by water (2018) to the first major solo exhibition devoted to Neïl Beloufa in an Italian institution Digital Mourning, curated by Roberta Tenconi at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan. The exhibition alludes to one of the most striking paradoxes of contemporary society, which is the existence in a technological world and its parallel disappearance. This allegory of the contemporary world and its fragility can be seen in the kinetic installation People’s Passion, transparency, mobility, all surrounded by water (2018), which includes the homonymous video. The work is based on a series of interviews by the artist with the inhabitants of a new residential complex in North America, revealing all the artificiality inherent in the perception of lifestyle and wellbeing of the Western world.

In a new exhibition, orchestrated by Gerhard Richter Archive and the Albertinum in Dresden, a lesser known part of one of the most important and influential living artist Gerhard Richter is reviled. In 1961 Richter, who was born in Dresden in 1932, defected to West Germany from the DDR two months before the building of the Berlin Wall and enrolled to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. This exhibition examens Richter’s turn to abstraction and experimental art created during the early stages of his career which for many years were considered destroyed by the artist.

We are delighted to share with you an Interview with Mr Igal Ahouvi for Larry’s List Talks. The online magazine interviews art collectors regularly and bring to the front the personal stories behind their collections. Mr Ahouvi talked openly about his love to contemporary art and the motivations behind his collection.

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Igal Ahouvi Art Collection is pleased to present our new art blog! Exclusively for our Hebrew speaking audiences, we will share our thoughts and insights about the art discourse and our collection in a different perspective. This is our oppertunity to share with you some of the ‘behind the scene’ of our collection.

To those who can’t read hebrew, please feel free to use online translating program, until we will open our blog in English.

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Exploring portraiture has been Igal Ahouvi Art Collection objective for a long time, thus we are thrilled to have two works on loan in a new exhibition at Omer Tiroche Gallery that explores the subject of self-portrait. One portrait we gave on loan is a magnificent self portrait by Thomas Ruff from 1987, and a second piece by Robert Mapplethorpe, a self portrait with a knife, from 1983. If you are visiting London this autumn please go and see the show.

Igal Ahouvi Art Collection are delighted to give on loan a painting by Luc Tuymans to the artist’s most recent large scale exhibition at Plazzo Grassi. The painting ‘The Return’ will be exhibited among other masterpieces from the collection of François Pinault. The exhibition will take place in parallel to the international biannual exhibition ‘La Biennale di Venezia 2019′. Igal Ahouvi is an avid collector of Luc Tuymans’ work and pleased to support the artist on the occasion of his exhibition.

This double portrait was completed on January 1987, the month of Janus, the two-faced god of beginnings, time, limits and departure.

Igal Ahouvi Art Collection is delighted to support the first large scale survey of the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (B. 1948, Tokyo) in Israel. The exhibition includes a selection from his Diorama, Seascapes and Theatres series.

Rodney Graham’s large-scale light-box images, all featuring Graham himself, will be the subject of a new exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, Germany. The Canadian master, well known for his humourous approach, will show 20 light-boxes that feature references to cultural icons. The work ‘Sunday Sun 1937’ from Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, for example, refers to Hitchcock’s ‘The Lady Vanishes’, where a couple shares a newspaper.

As a geology student, in 1963, Per Kirkeby was part of an expedition to Greenland, a journey that further influenced his career as an artist. In ‘Herbst’ (Autumn), the presence of nature and art history’s landscape painting tradition are colliding in a magnificent way. It is a great honour for our collection to obtain such a fine example of the great Danish master’s celebrated later paintings.

It is time for London! After Daniel Richter’s comprehensive show travelled to Vienna, it will now open at Camden Arts Centre this summer. Richter, one of the most prominent German painters of our times, will exhibit paintings stretching from the beginning of the millennium until the present day. Daniel Richter is an important part of the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, and we are glad for the opportunity to contribute to this important travelling show.

Shag Stiff, executed in 1977, as one of the artists’ definitive Dirty Words Pictures, is the embodiment of England’s anarchic punk rock movement. East London, the artist home for decades, is depict in all its harshness. Many works from the series are held in prestigious museum collections such Tate, Centre Pompidou and SF MoMA.

Taken in Memphis, Tennessee, the city in which Eggleston was born, this photograph was included in the 1976 exhibition at The MoMA, ‘Color Photographs by William Eggleston’ and its accompanying catalogue ‘William Eggleston’s Guide’. The photograph was also included in Eggleston pivotal exhibition at the Whitney Museum ‘William Eggleston: Democratic Camera’, in 2008. We are very pleased to have it now as part of our collection.

Michelangelo Pistoletto’s exhibition at Blenheim Palace will be the artist’s most comprehensive UK show to date.

Sotheby’s London S|2 Gallery exhibits the show ‘BetweenThe Eyes’, the exhibition will explore the relationship between concept and object, examining the interchange
between the idea, the material, and the experience of seeing. The exhibition features our Bruce Nauman ‘Double poke between the eyes’ along side works by Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, and Dan Flavin through to Rudolf Stingel and Wade Guyton, this exhibition provides a fresh look at Conceptual / Minimalist art and its infinite possibilities as an arena for artistic expression.

The art critic of Ha’aretz newspaper wrote about the exhibition ‘Prima Facie’ at the English version of the newspaper. Read it here.