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Amikam TorenClick here for sellected works |
Biographical NotesBorn in 1945, Israel1974 - 76 Founding co-editor Wallpaper One-man Exhibitions2005 - Plan B, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv2005 - Whatever Happened to Social Democracy, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malm? 2004 - Picnic, t1 + 2artspace, London 2004 - Clouds in Trousers, ARTLAB 29 at Imperial College, London 2003 - Golem, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 2002 - Bluebeard, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London 2000 - Ramat-Gan Museum for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv 1999 - Bluebeard, Minerva-Bar gallery, Tel-Aviv 1999 - Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris 1998 - Armchair Paintings 1989-1998, Minerva-Bar gallery, Tel-Aviv 1997 - Hand in Glove, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris 1996 - Three Takes, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1993 - Textes, Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris 1993 - Galerie Carstens, Berlin 1993 - Harry Zellweger, Basel 1991 - Harry Zellweger, Basel 1991 - Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris 1991 - Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1991 - Chisenhale Gallery, London 1991 - Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 1990 - Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (cat.) 1989 - Safety Regulation Painting No.6, Victoria Miro, London 1989 - Rotterdam Kunststichtung, Rotterdam 1989 - Stacks, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1987 - Pidgin Paintings, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (cat., Patricia Bickers, ill.) 1985 - Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1985 - Subverting ... a temporary edition, Camerawork, London 1984 - Actualities, Matt's Gallery, London (cat., David Coxhead, ill.) 1983 - Neither a tree nor a picture, Galeria Akumulatory, Poznan 1983 - Representations, Lewis Johnstone Gallery, London 1982 - Lewis Johnstone Gallery, London 1981 - Bluff and double bluff, Matt's Gallery, London 1981 - Mirroring, Lewis Johnstone Gallery, London 1981 - If painting then..., Riverside Studios, London 1979 - The Commercial Show, Barry Barker Ltd, London 1979 - Replacing, ICA, London (cat., Sarah Kent, ill.) 1977 - Simple Fractions, House Gallery, London 1976 - Serpentine Gallery, London 1975 - Urban Landscape Exchange, GLAA, London 1973 - Annely Juda Fine Art, London 1968 - Goldberg Gallery, Edinburgh Festival 1967 - Maserik Gallery, Tel Aviv Group Exhibitions2005 - Amikam Toren &John Frankland, Matt Gallery , London2004 - The Solar Anus, Henry Peacock Gallery, London 2004 - Bone Quake, 16 Upper Wimpole St, London 2004 - Painting, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 2003 - ChockerFuckingBlocked, Jeffrey Charles, London 2002 - Face Off: portrait of the artist, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (cat.) and touring to Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne 2002 - Fluent - paintings and words, Centenary Gallery, Camberwell College of Arts 2002 - Reality Revisited, Martin Kudlek, Cologne 2002 - Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno 2002 - Reflections, gf2, London (cat., ill.) 2002 - The Green Room, Percy Miller Gallery, London (curated by Simon Moretti) 2002 - A B See D, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 2002 - Live in Your Head, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon 2002 - Men at Home, Kalisher Gallery, Tel Aviv 2002 - Makeshift, University of Brighton (cat., ill.) 2000 - Galway Arts Centre, Ireland 2000 - Amikam Toren/Ian Breakwell, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 2000 -Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain, 1965-75, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (cat., ill.) 2000 - British Art Show 5, Edinburgh and tour (cat., ill.) 2000 -1999 Artfocus, Jerusalem Biennale 2000 - British Artists, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna 2000 - Porcupines/Arthinking 1999, 291 Gallery, London 2000 - John Moores Exhibition 21, Liverpool (Prize winner) 2000 - Furniture I, Richard Salmon, Studio 4, London 1998 - Aalst paper biennale, Aalst 1998 - 4 Schilders-4x solo-4 peintres, De Markten, Brussels 1998 - Context, Jewish Arabic Cultural Centre, Haifa (cat.) 1998 - A-Z (curator: Matthew Higgs), The Approach, London 1998 - Craft, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (cat.) 1997 - 619 KBB 75, mobile, Paris and tour 1997 - Humanism 2020, Ein-Hod Sculpture Biannale, Israel 1997 - Irredeemable Skeletons, Shillam + Smith 3, London 1997 - L'empreinte, Mus?e National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1996 - Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1995 - Pretext: Heteronyms, Clink Street Studios, London 1995 - Cubitt Gallery, (with Gavin Brown, Jemina Stehli, Paul Noble), London 1995 - 1994 London Landescapes, Associazone Culturale Velan, Torino 1995 - Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1995 - Original Paintings, Institut Francais, London 1993 - Portrait Now, National Portrait Gallery, London (cat., ill. text by Robin Gibson) 1993 - Spit in the Ocean, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1993 - Second Tyne International, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (cat., ill.) 1993 - Moving into View, Royal Festival Hall, London, and touring (cat.) 1992 - And What Do You Represent?. Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1992 - With Attitude, Galerie Guy Ledune, Brussels 1992 - 15/1, Melania Basarab, London 1992 - Surface Values, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge 1991 - Kunstlandschaft Europa, Kunstverein Freiburg 1990 - Counterpoint, Gimpel Fils, London 1989 - John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 16, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (prize winner) 1989 - The Tree of Life, touring to Manchester, Penzance, Exeter, London, Sheffield, Bradford, Durham, 1989 - Eastbourne, Peterborough, Edinburgh, Ayr, Lincoln, Coventry (cat., ill.) 1989 - Anthony Reynolds Gallery (Dering Street), London 1989 - Evidence, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1988 - Fragments of False Houses, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London 1987 - Instalment - 5 British Artists, Plan K, Brussels (cat., ill.) 1987 - On a Plate, Serpentine Gallery, London 1987 - John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 15, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (cat., ill. no 4) 1986 - No Place Like Home, Cornerhouse, Manchester 1986 - Furniture Sculpture, Victoria Miro Gallery, London 1985 - Masterpieces of the Avantgarde: Three Decades of Contemporary Art - The Seventies, 1985 - Annely Juda Fine Art, London 1985 - New Art I, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1984 - Problems of Picturing, Serpentine Gallery, London (cat., Sarah Kent, ill.) 1984 - Aperto, Venice Biennale 1983 - Photo(graphic) vision, Winchester Gallery, Winchester 1982 - Lewis Johnstone Gallery, London 1982 - Un nuovo classicismo, Premio Lubiam, Padua 1981 - Lewis Johnstone Gallery, London 1981 - The Garden of Knowledge, The Critics Gallery, Warsaw 1978 - London Calling, Acme Gallery, London and to Peterloo Gallery, Manchester 1978 - Sound, Whitechapel Gallery, London 1977 - On Site, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 1975 - Garage Art Ltd, London 1974 - Off the top of their heads, Artists' Meeting Place, London 1972 - Sculpture and sculptors drawings, Annely Juda Fine Art, London 1971 - London Art Spectrum, Alexandra Palace, London 1967 - Paris Biennale About Toren's WorkAmikam Toren was born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1945 and had no formal art training. Toren has been producing his 'Armchair Paintings' since the late 1980s. The artist's use of cheaply bought, street-market paintings - and the resulting significant increase in the painting's selling price - questions the issues of authorship and value in art. The words cut out from the canvas are idiomatic expressions which have almost lost their original, literal meaning through constant use, just as they obscure the original image on the painting. Recent exhibitions include L'Empreinte, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1997), Hand in Glove, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris (1997), and Armchair Paintings 1989-1998, Minerva Bar Gallery, Tel Aviv (1998). Amikam Toren lives and works in London. |