Stature
credit points: 1.5
Elective course for the Second year
(Limited to 12 students)
Asaf Elkalai
Asaf Elkalai lives and creates in Tel Aviv, he is a teacher and artist in the fields of installation, sculpture, photography, print, and video. He holds a bachelor's degree in photography and a master's degree in fine arts from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. He also studied art education at the Hebrew University. Elkalai has received the "Alubik" award and the "Young Artist" award from the Ministry of Culture. His works have been exhibited and presented in museums in Israel and around the world, including the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum, and the Knesset Collection.
A practical course in visual art with an emphasis on the sculptural object and installation. Throughout the course, we will explore issues and approaches related to spatial presentation, learning about artists and their works, and the relationships these works create with the viewer, who becomes both a participant in time and a witness to the event.
In parallel, we will examine various types of environments outside the traditional art space, analyzing how they are designed and how they define themselves. We will sharpen our observation of everyday life and the world around us as a source of ideas, thoughts, forms, and images.
Through individual and group exercises, we will experiment with understanding materials, connections, spatial presentation, and installation, as well as exploring the role of the singular object (sculpture, painting, action) — our relationship to it, and its relationship to space — as compared to notions of place, site, environment, dwelling, zone, and world.
