RONEN SHARABANI

Catalog #: 26
Website:  http://www.ronenshar.com/
Image:

Title: Issawiya
Year: 2011
Value:  $2000
Size: 150x53 cm
Edition: 1/7
Description: Print on canvas


About the artwork:
The work is based on  Issawiya village's panorama. In the biblical story "Tower of Babel", the people tried to approach the divine by the construction of a tower that leads to the sky. It turns out that the more the construction progressed, the people moved away from the divine, since they made the progress on the wrong dimension. The gap between the flat and simple buildings to the gleaming skyscraper emphasizes the power of point of view, and offers an ironic relativity between high and flat, simple and glamor...
About the Artist: 
Born in Israel 1974
Live and work in Tel Aviv, Israel

Education
1997-1998    painting and drawing, Avinoam Kosovsky's studio
1998-1999     painting and drawing, Jan Rouchwerger's studio   
1999        painting and drawing, Zvika Lachman's studio
2000-2003    painting, drawing and sculpture NYSS, NYC

Awards
1998        Golden Feather, for editing, Israel        
2003        Ohenberg Scholarship, NYC
2003        Buckingham First Prize for the Expression of Music through Art, NYC
2006        The Cannes Golden Lion Prize, for creative commercial

Solo Exhibition
2003        NYSS, NYC
2010        "Simultaneously", Kayma, Tel Aviv

Group Exhibition
2003        Buckingham Hotel, NYC
2004        Art Student leage, NYC
        Merit Show, NYSS, NYC       
2006        MAKOR, NYC       
2010        Esterline, Tel-Aviv
        Artvertising, Gravity, Tel-Aviv
2011        Babilon Tower, Cavim, Tel-Aviv
        Abulafia 25, Street Exhibition, Tel-Aviv
        Fresh Paint 2011, Tel-Aviv
        Annual Report, Kayma Gallery, Tel Aviv Jaffa

Work
1999-2010    work with the artist Michal Rovner
2006-2009    Head of composition department and creativ director, Gravity Post Production, Tel-Aviv
2000-2006    Creative Director and vissual effects supervisor, Rhinofx, NYC.
        Selected Production
‏Y&R NY - AT&T
‏Doner Detroit – Mazda
‏Uniworld - Lincoln with Marjeori
‏Publicis NY – Loreal
‏McCann Erickson NY – Loreal
‏Merkley & Partners – Mercedes

‏        John Sayles – Silver City – VFX supervisor
‏Perfect Stranger – James Foley
‏Dreamworks studios - Ghost Town feature film – VFX supervisor

‏        -Supervising shoots, and directing second camera
‏        HSI - Arni & Kinsky
‏Smuggler - Snorri Brothers
1997-2000    Senior Inferno artist, vfx supervisor.