Four Eyes
Asaf Elkalai
2023
Exhibition book
This exhibition book features a compelling blend of images and texts that accompany a series of works. It presents black-and-white printed images from the video artwork "Four Eyes," interspersed with color photographs of sculptures and the exhibition installation, which are affixed to the body of the book. The book includes four insightful texts by Etti Abarjil, Adi Dahan, and Yedidia Gazbar, along with a conversation between the exhibition's curator, Avi Ifergan, and artist Asaf Elkalai.
- Design: Nadav Shalev
- Editing: Gal Eshed
- Texts: Etti Abarjil, Adi Dahan, Yedidia Gazbar, conversation between the exhibition's curator Avi Ifergan and Asaf Elkalai.
- Translation: Yehudit Appleton
- Language editing: Gal Eshed
- Copies: 120
- Pages: 84
- Type of binding: soft cover
- Dimensions (cm): 23.5x19.4
- Reproductions: Yair Pinhas
- Type of printing: offset printing
- Publication: Bar-David Museum
- Supported by: Culture and Art for Council Pais, Museum David-Bar
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
- ISBN: 9789655391909
Asaf Elkalai was born in Kerem Ben Zimra (1986), currently based in Tel Aviv. Artist, lecturer and teacher in the fields of installation, sculpture, photography, print and video. He explores the temporal and spatial relationships between durations, dimensions, and trajectories - negative and positive, or horizontal and vertical.
His works are exhibited in museums in Israel and abroad and part of collections such as The Israel Museum, The Tel Aviv Museum. Elkalai holds a BA and MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and Art Education studies at The Hebrew University, he has won many awards, including the prestigious Elovic Award, and the Young Artist Award from the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
