TEL AVIV.- A solo exhibition by artist David Nipo will inaugurate the large and impressive exhibition space. The space will open to the public on April 4, 2024, following renovations and adaptations designed for displaying contemporary art exhibitions.

Opening Exhibition at Rothschild Fine Art Gallery
David Nipo: Birds Sang
4.4.2024 - 4.5.2024
Curator: Dr. Doron Luria

David Nipo's solo exhibition, titled "Birds Sang," features a collection of his recent paintings. Nipo's works explore the cycles of life and nature. They combine classical representational techniques and knowledge of biblical and theological sources with abstract, spontaneous, and formalistic elements. The exceptional quality of Nipo's painting, which virtuosically captures material subtleties, both respects and challenges the traditions of art history.

The paintings in the current exhibition are charged with a sense of tension, surprising dissonance, mystery, and instability. Nipo, who lives with his family and works in Moshav Nir Akiva, located about 10 kilometers from the Gaza border, reflects on the ever-present awareness of destruction and loss. For example, seemingly idyllic landscapes depicting flourishing green trees and fields near his home can't help but evoke the reality of war and death that exists nearby. Although these paintings are realistic, one can't ignore the underlying dimensions of fiction, absurdity, and horror that resonate with the situation in Israel and events like the one on October 7th.

David Nipo was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1964 and immigrated to Israel in 1969. He currently lives and works in Moshav Nir Akiva in the Negev. Early in his career, Nipo designed sets for cinema. Later, he studied painting with Israel Hershberg and co-founded the "HaTachana School of Figurative Painting" with Aram Gershuni. Nipo won the 2013 Schiff Prize for Art. His works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at leading museums and art institutions, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Petach Tikva Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery in London. His art is also part of public and private collections in Israel and around the world.

Founded in 2008 by Ethan and Inbar Cohen in Tel Aviv, Rothschild Fine Art Gallery has been operating for over 15 years. The couple previously ran the Ice Collection, a family-owned gallery in Manhattan. In its early years, the gallery was located on Rothschild Boulevard and later moved to Yehuda Halevi Street in Tel Aviv.
According to the gallery's owners, "The gallery's new space will serve as a large-scale platform for temporary exhibitions by established Israeli artists alongside up-and-coming talents. The focus will be on figurative painting, but will also include sculpture and photography." Upcoming solo exhibitions planned for the coming year include works by Osnat Ben Dov, Asia Lukin, Matan Ben Canaan, Meir Appelfeld, and Simon Adjiashvili.