Matan Ben Cnaan

25 Jun — 27 Oct 2018 at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, Israel

30 July 2018

Matan Ben Cnaan. Courtesy of Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Matan Ben Cnaan (b. 1980) combines figurative language with classical and contemporary concepts, maintaining boundary-crossing contexts even when he deals with local light and landscape.

Biblical themes are his trigger for charged situations with personal interpretation. Ben Cnaan places these myths in a banal reality, deconstructing them from their heroic representations.

In 2015 Ben Cnaan won the National Gallery's BP Portrait Award for his painting Annabelle and Guy (2014).

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Tel Aviv Museum of Art is a municipal museum, one of Israel's leading artistic and cultural institutions. The museum comprises various departments: The Department of Israeli Art, which holds a comprehensive collection of local art from the beginning of the 20th century to the present; the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, which encompasses international works from the mid-19th century to the present; the Department of Prints and Drawings; the Department of Photography; the Department of Architecture and Design; and the Old Masters Department, with art from the 16th to the 19th century.

Museum profile

Location

Tel Aviv, Israel

Founded in

1932