Orit
Adar Bechar
Orit Adar Bechar is an accomplished multidisciplinary artist based in Israel. She studied fine art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, and is a graduate of the Art Teachers’ Training College at HaMidrasha Art School. In 1990, she earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Upon returning to Israel, Adar Bechar became a faculty member at HaMidrasha Training College for Art Teachers and at the Talpiot Art Training College.
Throughout her career, Adar Bechar has engaged in a diverse range of artistic practices, including video and sculpture installations, painting, photography, and writing. She has held 15 solo exhibitions in Israel, and participated in numerous group exhibitions both locally and internationally. Her work has been showcased in Israel’s foremost museums, including the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Petach Tikva Museum of Art.
Internationally, Adar Bechar has exhibited at esteemed venues including Hunter College Gallery in New York, Sala 1 in Rome, MMOMA in Moscow, and the Mediation Biennale in Poznan, Poland. She has also been part of traveling exhibitions shown at Galerie Achim Kubinski in Berlin, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Acker Gallery in Berlin, Barbara Weiss Gallery in Berlin, Barbara Gross Gallery in Munich, and Mark Jacou Gallery in Switzerland, among others. In 2009, she presented a video project at Scala Mata Gallery in Venice as part of the 53rd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
Adar Bechar has participated in various video and short film festivals, including ‘Now and After’ in Moscow, ‘Tsiolkovsky Fest’ in Kaluga, and ‘Vidioholica’ in Bulgaria. Her works are held in museum and gallery collections, as well as by numerous private collectors worldwide.
The works “Landscape 45 (out of 70)” and “Landscape 28 (out of 70)” are part of my series of works entitled “Curtains”. The pictorial space is minimalist and avoids specificity. The painting is framed by what appear to be window curtains or the backdrop of a stage. The curtains at the front of the painting and the background space of the horizon line stretch the pictorial space into a vast plane that is often empty, blurred, and unsettling. The works were created using spray paints and stencils specifically designed to achieve a photographic effect. However, a series of technical “accidents”, such as printing glitches, disrupt the three-dimensional illusion of the painting.
These two works are part of a group of 70 works, most of which no longer exist. In 2019, my studio burned down, and most of the works were destroyed. A small group of works survived, bearing the marks of the fire.
The works displayed in this exhibition are the result of a process in which I came to terms with the damage inflicted on the works, and recognized the poetic and artistic power of the dirt and stains. Consequently, I continued working on the paintings, creating a sensitive, attentive dialogue between the paintwork and the water, smoke, and soot stains, transforming them into a living and renewing pictorial texture.
Orit Adar Bechar is an accomplished multidisciplinary artist based in Israel. She studied fine art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, and is a graduate of the Art Teachers’ Training College at HaMidrasha Art School. In 1990, she earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Upon returning to Israel, Adar Bechar became a faculty member at HaMidrasha Training College for Art Teachers and at the Talpiot Art Training College.
Throughout her career, Adar Bechar has engaged in a diverse range of artistic practices, including video and sculpture installations, painting, photography, and writing. She has held 15 solo exhibitions in Israel, and participated in numerous group exhibitions both locally and internationally. Her work has been showcased in Israel’s foremost museums, including the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Petach Tikva Museum of Art.
Internationally, Adar Bechar has exhibited at esteemed venues including Hunter College Gallery in New York, Sala 1 in Rome, MMOMA in Moscow, and the Mediation Biennale in Poznan, Poland. She has also been part of traveling exhibitions shown at Galerie Achim Kubinski in Berlin, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Acker Gallery in Berlin, Barbara Weiss Gallery in Berlin, Barbara Gross Gallery in Munich, and Mark Jacou Gallery in Switzerland, among others. In 2009, she presented a video project at Scala Mata Gallery in Venice as part of the 53rd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
Adar Bechar has participated in various video and short film festivals, including ‘Now and After’ in Moscow, ‘Tsiolkovsky Fest’ in Kaluga, and ‘Vidioholica’ in Bulgaria. Her works are held in museum and gallery collections, as well as by numerous private collectors worldwide.