CARMELA ELDAR | EYE AND MIND
Carmela Eldar. Acrylic on canvas. Signed.188x90cm © Art Market Magazine
Gold List Award Artist Carmela Eldar. © Art Market Magazine
Carmela Eldar was first introduced to art as a child in the home of her father, an amateur painter who introduced her to the world of color and art books. As an adult, she studied graphic design at the Technion and subsequently established a graphic design studio in Tel Aviv. Eldar continued to study the arts, particularly painting. Among other things, she studied different methods of painting, developing expertise in a wide range of methods. This enables her to express herself in many ways as the numerous works she has created over the years demonstrate.
Last July, Eldar presented her works in an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Artists House.
Nature is a fundamental motif in Eldar’s work.
She seeks to express the correlation between nature and man as well as to understand how they bring together the physical, mental, and philosophical. Elder is a member of the Israeli Visual Arts Association.
Carmela Eldar. Untitled #1. Oil on canvas. 130×92 cm © Carmela Eldar. © Art Market Magazine
Carmela Eldar. Untitled #2. Oil on canvas. 130×92 cm © Art Market Magazine
EYE AND MIND
Curator: Vera Pilpoul
Tel Aviv Artists House
Reality, imagination, and what is between them… Eldar’s practice of painting depends simultaneously on the process of internal reflection and contemplation of the artistic act in general and of her own artistic act in particular and the process of ongoing contemplation of nature. She approaches the latter by examining and identifying the internal order in the animate and inanimate, as compared to the wild freedom they manifest.
Her quest for another way to express the contrast and the shared that exist simultaneously in these two poles, as well as to synopsize and simplify the images and forms, led Eldar to geometry, the perfect solution.
Her work process gave rise to additional meanings: thoughts on reality as a sort of illusory manipulation, an optical illusion and misapprehension of the reality of life today. The complex, meticulously executed geometric work, with such precise lines and color, started to become a metaphor of humanity’s false sense of security and stability. For humanity is subject to pressure from every direction, in both the private and social spheres as well as due to the global, political, and diplomatic situation’s impact on the individual’s life and surroundings.
Carmela Eldar. Water color on paper. Hand cutting. Signed. 39.4x32cm © Art Market Magazine
As Eldar delved more deeply into the process, the geometric lines grew increasingly simpler, becoming free and expressing this, while the geometric work is manifested through strong, varied colors. This forges the effect of an optical illusion as the freer works remain monochromatic. She intentionally utilizes monochromatic colorfulness out of a desire to capture the image from its natural starting point and to distill forms from it that reverberate from the expression of the artist’s hand on the great canvas and capture the complex movement, the tumultuous moments, and the creation.
Carmela Eldar. Collage #1. Hand cutting. 45x54cm © Art Market Magazine
Carmela Eldar. Collage #2. Hand cutting. 45x54cm © Art Market Magazine
*The exhibition’s name comes from the title of philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s 1961 work, Eye and Mind.
Website: www.carmelaeldar.com
email: carmelael@gmail.com
