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LIANA HOLLANDER-GROSS

Lives and works in Even-Yehuda, Israel
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 NEGEV 1, OIL ON CANVAS 43X28 IN. / 110X70 CM. Liana was born and raised in Croatia, in the city of Dubrovnik,
 NEGEV 2, OIL ON CANVAS 47X31 IN. / 120X80 CM. one of the most beautiful cities on the shores of the Mediter-
ranean and perhaps – the world. She made “Alia” (immigrated)
to Israel at the age of nineteen and it was here that she stud-
ied thoroughly for a long time. Her extensive studies were in
“Bezal’el” in Jerusalem, “The Technion” (Architecture and Design)
in Haifa, the Institute of Arts in Netanya and in the University
of Haifa. Two times she has returned to her birth-country, but
not empty-handed. She flew to Zagreb and Dubrovnik with her
solo-exhibition entitled “Light and Color of the Negev” and other
ones. Liana’s art is drawn simultaneously from two sources. On
the one hand it has tenderness, sensitivity and lyrical charm and
on the other hand temperament, courage, intensive sensations
and the energy of a creative life – a combination of feminine
and masculine art. Perhaps it is not by chance that Liana love
very much horses and birds. Horses resemble a concentration
of dynamics and vigorous force, and birds are the embodiment
of freedom. She likes praying eagles rather than birds sitting on
a branch. Liana is of a new generation of artists. She is far from
colorful precise painting and works in a broad and vigorous style.
Her canvases have abstraction of form and her touch has endless
creative potential. Her artistic language includes metaphors and
associations, therefore her creation is very emotional and at the
same time intellectual. She addresses an observer who would
not only enjoy the painting but understand it to. In the series
“Masks”, in the panting “Peta” and others we see exposed drama
and in it illustrated the tragedy of our times.
Liana deals with contradictions, so that sometimes with the
symbolism she chooses she reaches the edge of art, crosses
it and shifts the center of gravity to the field of abstraction.
Therein lays emotional tension that is transmitted by combining
and clashing colorful surfaces and outlines. However, the artist
does not remain in abstraction alone and goes back to having
everything, starting with a game of shape and color on to more
familiar things like landscape, characters, faces and masks.
Liana, by nature, is keen and ambitious, open to new impressions;
she has visited Cambodia, Thailand, Europe and the Americas.
Her acquaintance with the global modern art and the classic and
modernist paradox is very thorough, yet she prefers meanwhile a
line of expressionism in a Phobistic tone and holds a position that
projects a creative personality that is independent in her art.
Gregory Ostrovsky [fragment]
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