Strelitzia is a piece with no beginning, midpoint, or end, rotating in an endless flow, like life itself.
Referencing Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, which the plant Strelitzia was named after, Ilan brings attention not only to the plant itself but to its feminine nature.
Referencing Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, which the plant Strelitzia was named after, Ilan brings attention not only to the plant itself but to its feminine nature.
I love paper, I always did. I am an obsessive collector of abandoned texts. this no-mans-land of abandoned books is an interesting position for me to start from. a space with no clear boundaries to define and limit me, without the rigid rules that characterized it before, without dots and commas.
Working with paper requires attention to the delicacy, crispness and fragility of the material.
My images grow out of folded fields of paper, reading is transformed into observation. The papers, carriages of text, preserve the material memory from which they came, and at the same time grow into a new language.
Carmel Ilan
Biography: Carmel Ilan graduated from the Department of Fashion Design at Shenkar College in Tel Aviv and from Parsons School of Design in New York in 1984 and in 1986 respectively. She then worked as a lecturer in Shenkar, and as a freelance designer, before founding her own brand ‘Ikoo’ for children’s furniture. In 2000 she started studying Sculpture at Basis School of Art, graduating in 2004. Since graduation, her work has been exhibited in dozens of exhibitions and fairs in Israel and abroad. This includes solo exhibitions at the Plaza Gallery in Tokyo, ZK Gallery in San Francisco, the Performing Arts Centre in Tel Aviv, the Wilfrid Israel Museum at Kibbutz Hazorea, Triumph Gallery in Moscow; as well as in group exhibitions at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv, the Artists House in Tel Aviv, Macadam Gallery in Brussels, the Jaffa Museum, Korner Park Gallery in Berlin. International fairs Ilan participated at include
Art Basel Miami, Art Central Hong Kong, Art Stage Singapore, the AAF Fair in Palm Beach, Fresh Paint Israel, and Art Toronto. Ilan Born in 1960 in Jerusalem, lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Artist statement: “I love paper, I always did. I am an obsessive collector of abandoned texts. this no-mans-land of abandoned books is an interesting position for me to start from. a space with no clear boundaries to define and limit me, without the rigid rules that characterized it before, without dots and commas. Working with paper requires attention to the delicacy, crispness and fragility of the material. My images grow out of folded fields of paper, reading is transformed into observation. The papers, carriages of text, preserve the material memory from which they came, and at the same time grow into a new language.” Carmel Ilan