Doron Solomons is an Israeli video artist.
Doron Solomons, video artist, born 1969, London. Lives and works in Ramat Gan, Israel.
Doron Solomons’ artistic practice since 2000 has been inextricably connected to his experience as a professional news editor, the materials to which he is exposed in this capacity, and the ethical problems posed.
1994-1991 Art Teachers' Training College, Ramat Hasharon
Kalisher School of Art, Tel Aviv
Art Teachers' Training College, Ramat Hasharon
Awards and Prizes
1998 2004 The Minister of Education, Cultre and Sport Prize, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport
2006 The Hadassah and Rafael Klatchkin Prize, Artic 9, The Sharett Foundation, America Israel Cultural Foundation
The Long Arm of the Law (2002)
Inventory (2001) - Doron Solomons reviews his life with regard to the material inventory of all his belongings. Beginning with his wife to counting all the cassette tapes and things in his life, Solomons reflects on materialism on a whole and the proprietary relationship between an man and a woman.,
Group Picture with a War (2005) – commissioned by the In Flanders Fields Museum to create a work from their collection of films dating back to World War I, Solomons unsurprisingly chose all the “behind-the-scenes” depictions, gaps, and intervals between battles: the men in the trenches, sleeping, treating the wounded.
Tonight’s Headlines(2006) – in this work we find the newest version of the “eloquent silence” series running through Solomons’ oeuvre. The work starts out like an ordinary night edition of the news on Israeli Channel 2, but when the time comes for the anchors to announce the headlines, they stare at the camera, without uttering a word. They keep the gestures and body language characteristic of the media just as much as the spoken language itself.
Shopping Day (2006), Solomons directly addresses the language of advertising and branding industries and its limited filmic lexicon. Using his editorial skill and editing language, he manages to subvert the message and create a drama of a daily and minor tragedy showing not only himself, but also this visual language, as pathetic.
Good night (2008) - A father reads his son a bed time story but falls asleep. The sons covers, and in the end smothers, the father. The work refers to the reality of sons that bury their father and considers the local harsh reality of fathers burying their sons.
Articles
From Haifa to London and back Haaretz - Guide, October 22, 2010
The Old Objectivity, Haaretz - Gallery, August 13, 2010
