Welcome to KooKoo's Winter Sale!
In auction no. 42 we will present for sale a selection of works by promising young artists and this time, many works are medium and large in size.
We will introduce you for the first time to Lisa Krieg, an anthropologist who lives and paints the desert and the Arava,
Ronit Shahaf paints social gatherings in works full of color and joy,
Noam Kubisi - a promising 24-year-old painter at the beginning of her career, listen to KooKoo, in this sale are 6 of her works at opening prices that will not return,
Rotem Orenstein who paints intimate moments from everyday life,
Batia Malka a sculpturer will also present 5 sculptures inspired by the Mifrats War that we found relevant even today.
We will present two ingenious watercolor paintings by Liron Yanconsky, an international watercolorist,
Young Tom Fima with 4 impressive and clever works,
Moriah Kaplan with 3 excellent oil paintings,
Erez Pliscov paints our dear Sea of Galilee,
And more artists that we all love in this sale.
KooKoo invites you to invest in the artists of the future and bring young contemporary art into your home,
good luck :)
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LOTTO 35:
Batia Malka
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Venduto per: $750 (₪2 687)
₪2 687
Prezzo iniziale:
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750
Prezzo stimato :
$1 200 - $1 500
Commissione per la casa d'aste: 15%
IVA: 18%
Solo su commissione
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''Where is my Mind'' 2013
For the first time in KooKoo, meet the Israeli artist Batia Malka!
(born 1981) is an Israeli ceramic sculptor and artist who deals with the seam between design and sculpture, lives and creates in Holon.
A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, where she studied in the years 2008-2004 in the ceramic and glass design department. Malka creates with an industrial technique of ceramic castings and combines handmade sculpture. Her works are characterized by high aesthetics, white color and glossy finish, and are on the seam line between a decorative kitsch figurine and a mutation.
In 2013, a "Zabar" statue was purchased by the Knesset building, and it is displayed in the committee building.
Ceramic casting and hand processing
Ceramic print
Height 38 cm
Width 20 cm
Depth 19 m
signed.
"The IDF mask is a recurring image in my works. For me, the mask reflects the unforgettable memory of my childhood experience in the war. When I was 9 years old, I experienced the first Gulf War, which for me was a war of deep emotions: the surprise motif of a viper's alarm resounding in the middle of the night, the running Rushing into the shelters and wearing the mask as if every day was Purim - all this caused me great excitement and even joy, but then after a short time came the feeling of suffocation from wearing the mask and the fear that appeared in everyone's eyes.
To pass the time in the shelter and hold the strength of the mixed feelings inside me, I made a box with animal toys and flower stickers and I used to decorate my mask and play with my animals to imagine a more pleasant and colorful place. Apparently these initial experiences contributed to shaping my personality and since then I have lived with the feelings that fear is actually excitement, that flaws are part of the whole and that beauty can be found in everything.
I have never replaced the mask from the age of 9 with another mask. It is still with me, so I decided to preserve this extraordinary childhood experience and create a work of art from it, a kind of memory taxidermy. I decided to make a mold for my mask and animal toys and make eternal sculptures from it. The series I created is called taxidermy (art of taxidermy of animals for display). Each mask has a different animal and a decorative flower decoration to beautify the reality and reduce the intensity of the negative image and connotation.
All the masks are glued on oak wood cut in the classic and well-known design of a base for stuffed animals.''
The first exposure of the two-faced baby figure was at the Sixth Biennial of Israeli Ceramics in 2010, when Malka's sculpture appeared in the event's advertisements on billboards in Tel Aviv and in newspapers.
