Selected Works
Kobi Assaf
Born in 1982, Israel
Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel
Kobi Assaf brings the cultural spirit of the 19th century to the 21st. His paintings are drenched in a non-Israeli brown mist, illuminated with a dim twilight, to create the look of paintings made before the era of electricity. The imprint of Romanticism is in his paintings, with its yearning for distant realms, like the European Romantics, yet they also contain sober self-aware modernism.
To achieve this goal, Assaf shatters the philosophical harmony of thought, leaving sections of his paintings bare and unfinished. He depends on his sharp painterly power and scatters hints that suffice to construct a world that is “similar” but restless.
Assaf ‘s work fundamentally differs from the conventions of Classism and Romanticism that strived to achieve a sensation of peacefulness, as he rises to the threshold of consciousness a demonic, seductive and dark universe.
EXHIBITIONS
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Winter show 2024
Oct 31 - Dec 13, 2024
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AUTUMN 2024
Sep 5 - Oct 18, 2024
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Spring Show 2024
May 24 - Jun 30, 2024
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United We Stand
Nov 15 - Dec 31, 2023
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Summer Show 2023
Aug 10 - Sep 15, 2023
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WINTER 2023
Feb 17 - Mar 24, 2023
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Election Day 2022
Nov 1 - Dec 9, 2022
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Winter 2022
Jan 1 - Feb 14, 2022
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Summer Show 21
Aug 1 - 31, 2021
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JJ21
Jun 3 - Jul 31, 2021
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91-DIVOC
Jun 1 - Aug 31, 2020
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Summer Show 2019
Jul 1 - Aug 31, 2019
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French Salon 2
Jul 1 - Aug 31, 2019
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Winter
Feb 14 - Mar 22, 2019
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N18
Nov 1 - Dec 14, 2018
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Summer Show 2018
Jun 28 - Aug 31, 2018
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French Salon
Mar 8 - Apr 27, 2018
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Summer Show 17
Aug 8 - Sep 17, 2017
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March 2017
Mar 10 - Apr 14, 2017
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Alternative
Jan 19 - Mar 5, 2017
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Homecoming
Dec 22, 2016 - Jan 17, 2017
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Spring Break
Apr 20 - May 18, 2016
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40,30,20
Jan 8, 2015 - Feb 19, 2016
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Studios
Mar 27 - Apr 24, 2015
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Concrete Fantasy
Feb 26 - Mar 26, 2015
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Zemack’s 3rd Birthday
Jan 10 - Feb 15, 2014
ART FAIRS
Art Miami
Dec 5 - 10, 2023
Fresh Paint Tel Aviv
May 30 - Jun 4, 2023
Art Central HK
Mar 22 - 25, 2023
Art Miami
Nov 30 - Dec 5, 2021
Fresh Paint Tel Aviv
Oct 21 - 26, 2021
Fresh Paint
May 30 - Jun 3, 2019
Fresh Paint 10
Apr 26 - 30, 2018
Fresh Paint 9
Mar 28 - Apr 1, 2017
Art Stage Singapore
Jan 12 - 14, 2017
Art Miami
Nov 29 - Dec 4, 2016
Art Toronto
Oct 28 - 31, 2016
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May 3 - 8, 2016
Art Market SF
Apr 27 - May 1, 2016
Fresh Paint 8
Apr 5 - 9, 2016
Art Miami New York
May 14 - 17, 2015
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Oct 23 - 27, 2014