ORLI ZIV
Painting a permanent amazement
Born in 1960 in Paris (France). Lives and works in Jérusalem (Israel).
ORLI ZIV
From Paris to Jerusalem
Orli Ziv was born in 1960, not far from Paris. In 1978, her love of art leads her to Claude Roederer’s (1924-1988) academy, place des Vosges. With this artist, close to the surrealist movement, she discovers the intimate link between symbolism and abstract art.
Orli Ziv started evolving around the parisian rock, jazz and cinema scene in the mid-1980s. From this period, her interest in artistic multidisciplinarity and her taste for improvisation experimentation remain. However, she returns to her first love when, after her installation in Jerusalem in 1990, she becomes a full-time painter.
At a time when street art and pop art were raging, Ziv decided to do the opposite and to pick up the oil, the pigments and the palette knife that would never leave her afterwards. Orli Ziv explores the artistic path of pictorialism before playing more and more with raw matter.
Lights and vibrations
Layer after layer, painting after painting, Ziv moves away from her beginnings in favor of an increasingly abstract expressionism. Nowadays, her art is characterized above all by the inner light which comes from her artworks, by its vibrant colors and its textures that gradually eclipse the pattern.
Between 1997 and 2019, the artist exhibited in Israel, France, Canada, and the United States, before hiding in her studio, at the gates of the desert, to investigate the lightness of freedom, the color of gesture and the ascent of her art. She breaks out of her box and pushes the limits of painting on increasingly large canvases. From this new phase was born the series «Jerusalem Obsession». The latter was presented at the eponymous exhibition in Paris in October 2022 by Ava Kleijman Gallery, the exclusive representative of Orli Ziv.
Some of Orli Ziv’s artwork
