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| Tal Gur - Product Designer |
| IcExcellence chosen artist since 2004 |
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"One of the loveliest and most original product design exhibitions to be shown lately...Gur, who started out a few years ago creating plastic objects of a sensual nature with a rotation technique he himself developed, is continuing to develop his own unique language as a designer who does not stop at practical functionality but also conducts a dialogue with the world of art
and design..."
Haaretz (Israel) 2003
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Tal Gur, a resident of Kibbutz Gilgal, graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in 1996. Shortly thereafter, he started teaching design at the academy's Department of Industrial Design. He is well appreciated for adapting a technology traditionally used by large scale production-rotational molding-for versatile, small-scale production. This opened various exciting new options in plastic and a sophisticated appeal for its use in domestic objects. Gur's works range from art-related objects to industrial-design products.
Tal has had ten solo exhibitions in Israel, Japan, Italy and England; and participated in more than twenty group exhibitions in important cultural institutions in Israel, Europe, the Far East and the Pacific. His works have been featured in leading design magazines, such as Domus, Interni, Blueprint, Frame, Axis, Ottagano, and others; as well as gaining coverage in daily newspapers across the world.
Tal's Latest Exhibition, Entitled The Turtle Laughs at Me, opened at the Jeanette Assia Gallery at Tel Aviv Museum in June 2007.
Among His Prizes and Awards
| 2004 |
Chosen Artist of Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation (IcExcellence) |
| 2001, 1998 |
"Crate & Barrel" Grant for the Israeli Domestic Product, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. |
| 2001 |
Design award of the Ministry of Culture, Israel. |
| 2000 |
Third prize in the Mino competition for lighting from hand-made paper, Mino Japan. |
| 2000, 1998 |
First prize in the Contemporary Design competition by the Interior Design Society of Israel. |
| 2000 |
"Premio Ambiente" prize for environmental design. Pantalleria, Italy. |
Public and Private Collections
Tal's work can be found, among other places, in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, the Periscope Gallery, and the Ilana Goor Museum in Israel; the IDEE design collection and the Mino Paper Museum in Japan; the Hangaram Museum for Design in Seoul, Korea; Neotu Gallery for Contemporary Design in Paris, France; and PIT 21 Design and Art Gallery in Milan, Italy.
IcExcellence is supporting Tal in tailor-made artistic programs, and providing special career advancement consulting.
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"In an age in which industrialists and manufacturers strive to increase the uniformity of goods, Gur persists on producing irregularity and poetic disparity in processes of industrial production and in processes of 'home' production."
Curator Meira Yagid Haimovitz, 2007
"Gur transforms industrial plastic into lighting designs that are both witty and spiritual."
Korea Herald (Korea), 2003
"Poetic objects made from common plastic for joy and for use..."
Die Weld (Germany), 2003
"The works [are] completely unorthodox. Gur developed his own method for
their production."
Ideales Heim (Germany), 2001
"Eash is Tal Gur's sculptural rendition of 'Waiting for Godot'....the human figures look up in anticipation and emit heavenly light. Lucky for design customers the thermoplastic resin people are still hanging around."
Surface Magazine 27 (California), 2001
"One of the exhibition's qualities is its mischievousness and the sense that, unlike with many other designers, the creative process was a pleasure and not a torment."
42 Degrees (Israel) 2003
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