LOT 83
| Technique | Painting |
| Size | 90 x 90 cm |
| Availability | Available |
| Donation | 70% |
Gilad Efrat’s October Cycle (2023) emerges from a moment when external reality violently entered the studio, collapsing the distance between life and painting. In response, Efrat turned to a direct, physical process, applying paint with his hands, layering dense material and then scraping it away. The surface becomes a site of excavation: layers accumulate like geological strata, then are exposed, erased, and wounded. The final black layer evokes darkness, scorched earth, even bone. These works abandon photographic reference in favor of a raw painterly language, where material, gesture, and action embody a fractured consciousness. The canvas becomes both body and landscape, an urgent space where destruction, memory, and presence coexist.
About Gilad Efrat
Gilad Efrat is a painter and Professor of Art at the School of Multidisciplinary Art at Shenkar - Engineering. Design. Art.
Efrat earned his MFA from the joint program of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Following his studies, he was accepted into the prestigious Core Residency Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
In 1997, Efrat held his first solo exhibition at the Kibbutz Gallery in Tel Aviv. Since then, he has presented numerous solo and group exhibitions in Israel and internationally. His work has been shown at leading institutions including the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Martin-Gropius-Bau, the Jewish Museum Vienna, the Royal Academy of Arts, the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, and the Fruitmarket Gallery, among others. In Israel, his work has also been exhibited at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, the Haifa Museum of Art, and Gordon Gallery.
Recent exhibitions include presentations at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Israel Museum. Comprehensive catalogs of his work have been published in collaboration with major institutions, including Inside Painting (Israel Museum, Jerusalem), Ape Scape (Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod), No Man’s Land (2004, Galleria Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome), and Surface (1998, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art).
Over the years, Efrat has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Michel Kikoïne Prize for Israeli Painting (Tel Aviv University), the Israeli Minister of Culture Prize (2012), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2007), the Artadia Grant (2004), and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s Richter Prize (2006), among others.
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