ARTIST STATEMENT

Galit Allouche is pulling the threads. From one point to another, she comes and goes. Sometimes we hear the rattling of the glue gun. Under the effect of the heat, the filament lies in lacey patterns on clay molds.

On the day in question, on the corner of a table which she uses as a workshop, Galit Allouche is working on the creation of hands. Nine have already been made this morning. Assembled by the dozen, these hands made of lace glue, form strange bushes, translucent corals.

The most striking work - also the largest and most detailed - is composed of Madame or Mademoiselle? and of its complementary portrait Mademoiselle or Madame? It is a large reef of outstretched hands. A tight bouquet of hands with colored veins, surrounded by a circle of hands, white as a wedding dress.

So, is it Madame or Mademoiselle? Galit can't see why there should be two words to address a woman. So she composed her response by separating the two very complementary sculptures which would normally only be one.

The artist insists on expressing her views. Almost all her works are titled. The title reveals the hidden meaning, the strong opinion or the secret emotion that led to their creation.

We learn with Neuf Moi Seulement that "vomiting" can be very similar to "happiness". We can contemplate sexual appetite mixed with love in To Serve You. One wonders how the strip tease in Love Me Love Me Not will end....

In her previous series of clouds, Galit Allouche was speaking to our emotions. Aerial shapes floating on a wall, chubby, light and gentle. Nothing more poetic!

The latest creations raise questions; and the titles lead you to reflect and react. Between these two poles, the artist comes and goes. She weaves the threads between her imagination and her reality. The result is her works that have found the balance between emotional and cerebral.

Laurence Revais,

February 2014

BIOGRAPHY

SOLO SHOWS​​​​​​​​​

2010:              "lagalerie Actuelart"- Paris.

2007:              "Bar-David Museum" - Honey Trap - Israel                                                            
2006:              "Vert Galant Galerie"  - Quai des Orfèvres, Paris  -  Luminous Abstractions.
2004:              "Tel Aviv office" - wax sculptures and oil paintings.

​SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2014 :              Claude Kelman Galerie - Paris

2013 :              "Galerie de AAB" - Paris .

                        "In Motion", the French Institute in Vienna, Clam-Gallas,

2012 :             "Claire Corcia Galerie" - Paris .​

2011:               "Art en balad" - Paris
2010;               "VBK Galerie" - Berlin

2009:               "Prise of Design", Mann auditorium, tel aviv, israel
                          "Galerie le pramides", Saint Germain en Lay, france
                          Ashdod  Museum -  Israel

                          "Espace kiron" Paris

                          Bastille design center Paris
2008:                Galerie Claude Kelman - Paris 
                          FINE galery, Busan, Corea
                          Art En Capital: Exhibition in the GRAND PALAIS, Paris
2007:               "Adada Galerie"  ST Denis -"EXcroissance 4”
                         "Arpac", Deauville – “Honey Trap”, wax installation.
                         "Salon d'art", Bourbon-Lancy (Bourgogne) – Oil and wax paintings
                          Lagalerie - le genie de la bastille  paris
                          Polylogue at Carré de Baudouin - "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité"  - paris
2006:               "Les arts en fétes", La Clayette (Bourgogne).
                          Adada Galerie - Basilic St. Denis - “EXcroissance 3”
                          Adada Galerie - Basilic St. Denis - “Bread and amusement”
2005:                Espace Saint-Martin, Paris 10th - Luminous Abstractions
2004:                "Soho" - international exhibition in Desingoff center”, Tel aviv- “8 +”
2003:                "Soho" - international exhibition in Desingoff center”, Tel aviv”

 

 COLLECTIONS & PRICES2007:                 Collection Bar-David Museum.

2006:                 Bronze Medal awarded by the International Academy of Lutece.

2005:                 First prize for sculpture awarded by the Oulmont Foundation, Fondation de France.

 

 

SPECIAL PROJECTS

2007 et 2009   "Yvon Lambert", Galerie Paris: ART PROTECTS.

2005 - 2013     Open Doors "La Forge de belleville",  Paris.

2007 - 2009     Génie des jardins: open exhibitions in municipal gardens in Paris