Yaacov Dorchin

 

Catalog # 9
Yaacov Dorchin

Courtesy of Bank Discount

Estimated value: Undetermined

 

 

About the artist:

1946 Born in Haifa

Lives and works in Kibbutz Kfar Hachoresh

Since 1991 Professor, University of Haifa, Art Department

Awards and prizes

1989 Awarded the Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Painting and Sculpture

2004 Awarded the Emet Prize, Culture and Arts: Sculpture, The A.M.N Foundation

Solo exhibitions

1969 Deformations, Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv

1970 Sculpture, Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv

1975 Environmental Exhibition, Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv
Sculpture, Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv

1976 Sculpture, Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv

1977 Paintings, Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv

1980 Drawings, Sara Levy Gallery, Tel Aviv
Sculpture, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv

1981 Drawings, Shenar Gallery, Tel Aviv

1983 Drawings, Graphica III Gallery, Haifa
An Angel in an Irish Landscape, Noemi Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1984 Sculpture, Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
Etching, Meimad Katan Gallery, Tel Aviv
Sculpture, Sara Levy Gallery, Tel Aviv

1985 Sculpture, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1987 Sculpture, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1988 Sculpture, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1989 Sculpture, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1990 Sculpture, sculpture for the Venice Biennale, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan. Curator: Adam Baruch Sculpture, Kibbutz Cabri Gallery
Sculpture, Alfa Kruck Gallery, Alsdorf, Germany
Sculpture, the Venice Biennale (Israeli representative). Curator: Adam Baruch.
Drawings, Memorial Center, Kiryat Tivon

1991 Sculpture, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1992 Sculpture, Sara Levy Gallery, Tel Aviv

1993 Sculpture, Artists’ Studio, Tel Aviv. Text: Ran Shechori
Sculpture, Kibbutz Neve Ur

1994 Sculpture, Kibbutz Lochamei Haghettaot Gallery

1995 Blocked Well, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

2001 Various Sculptures, a tribute to Avi Horovitz on the fifth anniversary 0f his death, Kibbutz Lochamei Haghettaot Various Sculptures, Artists’ Studios, Tel Aviv

2002 Bare Iron, Goren Art Gallery, Emek Israel Academic College

‏2003 Two-Dimensional Works – Yaacov Dorchin – The Drawings, The Open Museum, Industrial Park, Tefen “Monkeys’ Cradle”- Sculpture, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

‏2004 “Exit to the Sea” – Sculpture, Time for Art, Tel Aviv

2005 Small Sculptures, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

2006 Ripples of Steel, Yaacov Dorchin, Gabriel House, Jordan Valley

2009 Iron Folds and Line Gestures, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

Group exhibitions

1967 Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv

1968 For and Against, The 10+Group, Gallery 220, Tel Aviv

1969 10+Group Circle, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1971 December 71, The Association of Painters and Sculptors, Tel Aviv

1979 The Line, Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv

1982 A Tribute to Henry Shelesnyak, Sara Levy Gallery, Tel Aviv

1983 Artists Exhibition in Eilon. Curator: Igal Tumarkin

1984 Catastrophe, Jerusalem Theater. Curator: Gideon Ofrat
80 Years of Sculpture, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Two Years of Israeli Art: Accumulated Qualities, Tel Aviv Museum
Israeli Art Now, The C. Mayorkas Collection, Herzliya Museum

1986 The Want Of Matter: A Quality in Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum

1987 Tel Hai, Contemporary Art Meeting

1988 Forty Artists from Israel, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Bass Museum of Art,Miami Beach, Florida; Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico 1989;
Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; Centro Congressi Stazione
Martittima, Trieste, Italy; Casa della Città, Rome, Italy; Museo dell’Automobile
Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia, Torino, Italy;
1990 Sala Wystawowa Gmachu Sarp, Warsaw, Poland; Galeria Mesta Bratislavy, Yugoslavia; National Gallery, Prague, Czechoslovakia; Municipal Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Museum der Blidenden Künste Leipzig, Germany. Curator: Reviva Regev

1989 Outdoor Sculpture, Herzliya Museum
Kunst Fra Israel, Nikolaj Museum, Denmark

1990 Israel Festival, Jerusalem Theater
The Sculpture Biennale, Ein Hod
A Permanent Exhibition, Sculpture Garden, Ramat Efal
The Column in Israeli Art, Tel Aviv University Art Gallery
Windows, Omanut La’am, Travelling Exhibition

1991 Israel Festival, Jerusalem Theater
Tribute to the Poetry of Meir Wieseltier, Beit Hatarbut, Natanya
Iron in Common, Herzliya Museum
Triangle Artists Workshop, 10th Anniversary, New York
North, The Open Museum, Tefen
Works on Paper, Artists’ Studios, Tel Aviv
Kalisher-5 Gallery, Tel Aviv
80 Years of the Kibbutz Movement, Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
The Presence of the Absent: The Empty Chair in Israeli Art,
Tel Aviv University Art Gallery
Contemporary Israeli Sculpture, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art,
Tokyo, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
Art and Industry, Textile Center, Tel Aviv
Contemporary Israeli Art, Salle Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium

1993 Eye Contact (with Yair Garbuz and Raffi Lavie), Artists’ Studios, Tel Aviv
Twin Exhibition (Igal Tumarkin), Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv
New Acquisitions 1991-1993, Museum of Modern Art, Haifa

1994 Israeli Sculpture at Tefen in the Last Decade, The Open Museum, Tefen

2001 The Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwartz Collection of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

‏2003 Self Portrait, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

2004 Couple Swapping, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

2005 Tiere und Kunst aus Israel: Yosef Schlein und Yaacov Dorchin, Zoologischen Staatssammlung, Munchen

2005 Garbuz and Dorchin – The Joint Exhibition, The Art Gallery, University of Haifa

2005 Handwriting, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

2006 “Detail”,Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

Collections and sculptures in public places

Collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Collection of the Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art
Blocked Well with Lily Carved in iron, Tel Aviv University
Pool with Four Fish, iron, Tel Hai 1987
Pool with Ark of Fish, iron, Herzliya Museum 1989
A Well and Four Dogs, iron, Tel Aviv 1991
Sculpture at the Carmelit (Gan Ha’em Station), Carmel, Haifa
Sukkah, iron, Kibbutz Neve Ur 1993
Blocked Well, steel, collection of The Open Museum, Tefen 1994
Wells, University of Haifa
Chariot, Ness Ziona, 2002