Raphael perez
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Biography
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Curriculum vitae A brief biography of the painter Raphael Perez's family through an artist's book of childhood photographs
19/06/2023 03:22
An interview with the painter (heberew Rafi Peretz) Raphael Perez about the Perez family from 6 Nissan St. Kiryat Yuval Jerusalem
Question: Tell me when you were born, where, and a little about your family
Answer: I was born on March 4, 1965 in the Kiryat Yuval neighborhood in Jerusalem
I have a twin brother named Mickey Perez and we are seven brothers and sisters, five boys and two girls
Question: Tell us a little about your parents
Answer: My parents were new immigrants from Morocco, both immigrated young.
My mother's name before the wedding was Alice - Aliza ben Yair and my father's name was Shimon Peretz,
My mother was born in the Atlas Mountains and was orphaned at a young age and was later adopted by my father's family at the age of 10, so that my mother and father spent childhood and adolescence together....
They had a beautiful and happy relationship but sometimes when they argued my mother would say "even when she was a child she was like that..." This means that their acquaintance and relationship dates back to childhood..
Question: What did your parents Shimon and Aliza Peretz work for?
Answer: My father, Shimon Perez, born in 1928 - worked in a building in his youth and then for thirty years worked as a receptionist at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem... My father's great love was actually art, he loved to draw as a hobby, write, read, solve crossword puzzles and research Regarding the issue of medicinal plants, as a breadwinner he could not fulfill his dream of becoming an artist, in order to support and feed seven children. But we are the next generation, his children are engaged in the world of creativity and education, a field in which both of my parents were engaged during their lives. My father died at the age of 69
My mother, Alice Aliza Perez, born in 1934, worked as an assistant to a kindergarten teacher, and later took care of a baby at home. She is a woman of wholehearted giving and caring for children and people, a warm, generous and humble woman.. and took care of us in our childhood for every emotional and physical deficiency.. My mother is right For the year 2023, the 89-year-old is partly happy and happy despite the difficulties of age.. May you have a long life..
My mother really loved gardening and nature and both of them together created a magnificent garden, my parents have a relatively large garden so they could grow many types of special and rare medicinal plants and my father even wrote a catalog (unpublished) of medicinal plants and we even had botany students come to us who were interested in the field... today they They also grow ornamental plants, and fruit trees...
Question: A book about the brothers and sisters
Answer: My elder brother David Peretz repented in his mid-twenties.. He was a very sharp, opinionated, curious and very charismatic guy who brought many people back to repentance, and also helped people with problems through the Yeshiva and the synagogue to return to the normal path of life, he died young at the age of 56
Hana Perez: My lovely sister, repented in her early twenties with her husband, raised eight children, worked in the field of education, kindergarten, and child care.
She has a very large extended family of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren...
My brother Avi (Abraham) Perez studied in Israel at the University of Philosophy and Judaism, he married a wonderful woman named Mira Drumi, a nurse by profession, and together they had three wonderful children, when they moved to the United States in their mid-twenties, where my brother Avi Perez completed his master's degree in education, worked in the field Education and for the last twenty years is very conservative
The fourth brother is Asher Perez - a great man of the world, very fond of traveling and has been to magical places all over the world, engaged in the creation of jewelry with two children.
I am Rafi Perez the fifth and after fifteen minutes my twin brother was born
My mother still gets confused and can't remember who was born first :-)
My twin brother Miki - Michael Perez, a beloved brother (everyone is loved), a talented industrial designer, he has three children, his wife Revital Peretz Ben, who is a well-known art curator, active and responsible for the art field in Tel Aviv, they are a dynamic and talented couple, full of talents and action
The lovely little sister Shlomit Perez - has been involved in the Bezeq telephone company for almost three decades, and is there in management positions, raising her lovely and beloved home.
The art book I dedicated to my family is colorful, rich in details, shows a very intense childhood, happy, cheerful, colorful, ... We were taught to be diligent and to be happy in our part and to see the glass half full in life, to have emotional intelligence and to put the relationship and love at the center with self-fulfillment in work that will interest you us and you will give us satisfaction.
Each of us is different in our life decisions and my family is actually a mosaic of the State of Israel that includes both religious and secular people from the entire political spectrum who understand that the secret to unity is mutual respect for each other... when my mother these days is also the family glue in everyone's gatherings on Shabbat and holidays..
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Statement
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question: What is special about the naive style of the painter Raphael Perez
Answer: Raphael Perez is an Israeli artist known for his naive style paintings of Tel Aviv city. His work captures the essence of the city and its urban landscape, highlighting its iconic buildings and sites. Perez's paintings create an idealized atmosphere in which reality is beautified and presented in a dreamy, fantastic manner.
question: What are Raphael Perez naive paintings characterized by?
Answer: Perez's work is characterized by its vibrant colors and cheerful depiction of life in Tel Aviv. The streets in his paintings are full of people and loving couples hugging and kissing, while the boulevards are lined with well-kept trees and bushes. Perez's work presents a vision of Israel's future as a promising startup nation, with a beautiful, clean, and naive cityscape featuring towering skyscrapers reaching towards the sky.
question:How Raphael Perez presents the city of Tel Aviv and every city he paints
Answer: Through his art, Perez portrays Tel Aviv as a modern and advanced city. His paintings are a celebration of the city's unique character and its place as a cultural hub in Israel. Perez's work is a testament to the beauty and vitality of Tel Aviv and its people.
question:How do you summarize the naive work of the painter Raphael Perez
Answer: Raphael Perez is an Israeli artist known for his naive style paintings of Tel Aviv city. His work captures the essence of the city and its urban landscape, highlighting its iconic buildings and sites. Perez's paintings create an idealized atmosphere in which reality is beautified and presented in a dreamy, fantastic manner. Perez's work is characterized by its vibrant colors and cheerful depiction of life in Tel Aviv. The streets in his paintings are full of people and loving couples hugging and kissing, while the boulevards are lined with well-kept trees and bushes. Perez's work presents a vision of Israel's future as a promising startup nation, with a beautiful, clean, and naive cityscape featuring towering skyscrapers reaching towards the sky. Through his art, Perez portrays Tel Aviv as a modern and advanced city. His paintings are a celebration of the city's unique character and its place as a cultural hub in Israel. Perez's work is a testament to the beauty and vitality of Tel Aviv and its people. In conclusion, Raphael Perez is an Israeli artist whose naive style paintings of Tel Aviv city capture the essence of the city and its urban landscape. His work presents an idealized vision of the city that is both beautiful and vibrant. Perez's paintings are a celebration of Tel Aviv and its unique character as a modern and advanced city.
question: What is the painter Raphael Perez identified with
Answer: Raphael Perez is an Israeli artist known for his homoerotic gay art and colorful urban landscapes painted in a naïve style. He was born in Jerusalem in 1965 and has been living and working in Tel Aviv since 1995. Perez plays an important role in actively promoting LGBT art and culture in Tel Aviv.
question: When did the artistic career of the painter Raphael Perez begin?
Answer: Perez's artistic career began when he was still living with women at age 24. He began studying art at the age of 24 at the College of Visual Arts in the city of Be'er Sheva. He often painted heterosexual couples, but even then, one discerned Perez's inner conflicts and attempt to grapple with the complexities of couplehood. His early work deals with the complexity of the relationship between a man and a woman, presenting an estranged relationship in which there is no connection between the two.
Question: What first series of paintings he created in his homosexual period on the homosexual theme?
Answer: Perez then moved to a stage of concealment, presenting men who do not reveal their faces and are debating about their sexual identity. He then created a large series of works dealing with the joy and idealization of homosexual life and love. These paintings are in a naïve style with pride flags in the background and loving couples on the streets of Tel Aviv, in lakes, in recreation places and iconic sites in the city.
Question: What is considered the famous series of the painter in his homosexual period and in his homosexual painting subjects?
Answer: Perez also created a series of Israeli soldiers, expressing the meaning of the army to every Israeli citizen. In the years 1999-2004, he was one of the first artists in the world to create a large naive series of works dealing with a same-sex family of two men raising a child. Another innovative subject was a series of men giving birth.
Question: Why did he switch to painting naive paintings and series of heterosexual paintings?
Answer: Over the years, Perez also began to see the less beautiful side of homosexuality and the complexity that exists within the gay community. He moved to series dealing with an urban landscape with couples of all kinds
Question: Is he in a relationship?
Answer: Since 2013 he has been in a relationship with a stunning guy who is 20 years younger than him, his name is Assaf Henigsberg and he also serves as a model for his paintings as of 2023 in October they will celebrate 10 of the happiest years of his life
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Exhibitions
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The complete list of solo and group exhibitions of the Israeli painter Raphael Perez
Selected solo exhibitions
1997 - Notebooks and diaries, Curation Department at Camera Obscura - School of Art, Curator: Alice Machlis, Chief Curator: Reli Avrahami
1998 - Flamengo Restaurant Gallery
2000 - Cafe Theo
2001 - Jerusalem Open House
2002 - Gaim Bagalil, Kiryat Shmona
2002 - The Haifa Forum
2004 - Photogen
2004 - Restaurant - Bar - Shiraz Gallery
2006 - "A woman with a tail - an exhibition of drawings before a wedding", Tel Aviv Artists House, curator: Daniel Kahana-Levinzon
2008 - "The Kiss", Tel Aviv Artists House, Curator: Daniel Kahana-Levinson
2008 - "Panorama Tel Aviv" (couple exhibition with Shalom Flesh), Givatayim Municipal Gallery Water Institute, Curator: Daniel Kahana-Levinson
2009 - "Army of Lovers", Yanko Dada Ein-Hod Museum, Curator: Daniel Kahana-Levinson
2009 - "Portrait of a community: realistic paintings of key activists from the LGBT community", the urban center for the gay community, curator: Avi Sofer
2010 - "The Open House for Pride and Tolerance", Jerusalem, Curator: Ortal Pell
2016 - "Mediterranean Fantasy", International Hungarian Center, Nainiy Ha'oma Jerusalem, Curator: Eran Litvin
2017 - Kiryat Gat Intel factory
2017 - Integration of the annual conference of the Association of Construction and Infrastructure Engineers in Israel, the exhibition grounds.
2023 - Solo exhibition at the qu art museum in Suzhou, China
Major group exhibitions in Israel
2003 - "In the public domain - a tribute to Tel Aviv city gardener Avraham Karvan", Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, curator: Tali Tamir
2003 - Ophir Gallery
2004 - "Time for Love: Images of Romantic Art in Contemporary Israeli Art", Time for Art, Tel Aviv, Curator: Tami Katz Freeman
2004 - "Kastra" Haifa Art Center
2004 - Rimon Gallery - 3 artists
2004 - Alternative Gallery - Jaffa Yards
2004 - Bauhaus Center - Tel Aviv
2005 - "In the true colors: we are both together, one and the same", Enav Center for Culture, Tel Aviv, curator: Daniel Kahana-Levinzon
2005 - Fresco Gallery
2006 - "Tools Experiment", Center for Children of the Ages, Tel Aviv, Curator: Moran Shove
2006 - "Anonymous Exhibition", University of Haifa, Art Gallery, Faculty of Humanities, Haifa
2007 - "My Favorite Pornography", Tel Aviv Artists' House, Curator: Yuval Keder
2007 - "Imagination - Israeli Art Exhibition, 2007", Management Building, Bank Hapoalim, Tel Aviv
2007 - Five group exhibitions at the Amiad Center in the flea market in Jaffa, curated by Freddy and Ethi Fabian
2008 - "Accidental Exhibition", Ministry Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Rachel Sukman
2008 - "Tunnel of Time: Self-Portrait Exhibition", Water Institute, Yosef Weissman Municipal Gallery, Givatayim
2009 - "Urban", Stern Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Debi Luzia
2009 - "White Trash", space in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, curators: Amanda Mel, Shameless and Enbalimor
2009 - "Khosoomophobia", Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Ziv Tadhar
2010 - "Artist's Books", Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2010 - "Men and women make beauty", Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Naomi Shalu
2010 - "Nahariya hosts the great city", HaKatsa Center, Nahariya, curator: Lee Ramon
2011 - "Vanilla Sex", Rosin Design House, Tel Aviv, curators: Esther Shlomo and Freddy Fabian
2011 - "Protest", The Central Gallery, Tel Aviv Curator: Orit Galili
2011 - "Proud Look", Gebo Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Yohanan Harson
2012 - "Without Money", Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Itai Zelait
2012 - "The Face of the State", The Central Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Orit Galili
2014 - "The Generous Tree - The Story of the Olive Tree", Umm Al-Fahm Art Gallery, Umm Al-Fahm
2014 - Hangar 2, Jaffa Port
2017 - "Same but different", Minus One Gallery, curator: Efrat Livni
2017 - "Homeland Lesson", Art Workshop Gallery, Yavne
2017 - "Israeli naive art", Gina Gallery
2018 - "70 for Israel Blue and White Art: an art exhibition in public parking lots of Tel Aviv-Jaffa" (Aryeh Azan, Baruch Elron, Nachum Gutman, Naftali Bazam, Kadishman, Rafi Peretz, Zoe Saber, Oded Feingersh), curators: Iris Elhanani, Doron Folk.
are collecting
2019 - Amiad Center - Exhibition following Eurovision
2020 - Erotica - Ayelet Booker Gallery
2023 - Art Biennale in the city of Suzhou, China at the qu art museum
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