'Cactus" - Avishai Sivan's exhibition in East London

The Israeli filmmaker Avishai Sivan is currently working in London and presented his drawing and one of his film in his first British exhibition.

The exhibition takes palce at the Wayward Gallery in East London (47 MOWLEM ST, LONDON, E2 9HE, Bethnal Green). 

The opening was on Thursday and pictures are more relevant than words:

Drawings and photographs.

Maps and tube maps.

Filmmakers, musicians, painters and many more:

CACTUS
6 – 18 / 10 / 2011
Wayward Gallery


Avishai Sivan presents tube-map sketches and Polaroid prints - some are straight-forward photographs – others are over/underexposed print with etchings and inscriptions.

Finally, Sivan presents Returnee a twenty-one minute film, shot in 16mm.

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Avishai Sivan, born in 1977, in Israel, is a filmmaker, visual artist and published author. 

His artwork has been presented galleries and art magazines in Israel and Europe. 

Sivan’s first feature film "The Wanderer" was screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2010, in the Directors’ Fortnight section. 

He was awarded the 2010 Ministry of Culture’s Cinema Prize in Israel. 

In 2007, his first documentary, seven-part video diary "The Soap Opera of Frozen Filmmaker" won Best Video Art at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2007. Earlier this year, Sivan published his first book "Musings on Filmmaking whilst Cycling through the City".

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More details, info and pictures here:


http://www.avishaisivan.com/art.html

Wayward Gallery:
www.thewaywardgallery.com