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Gil Shahar

2001

Art installation of arms coming out of a wall holding body covered in sheet with one arm exposed.
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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).

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