Creator Bio
Gil Shahar
b. 1965
The work of Israeli artist Gil Shahar has appeared in exhibitions in Israel, Europe, and the United States, including solo shows at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (1992, 2009) and the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (1998). He has received an America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award (1992) and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2005).
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
Primary Source
Untitled
Shachar began to mold and cast human body parts from life early in his career. Here, hands carry the body of a young girl wrapped in a sheet, perhaps alluding to the Virgin Mary supporting the dead…