Shlomo Shriki, born in Morocco (1949), is an Israeli painter and artist, grew taking place and was educated in Kibbutz Yifat. Shriki worked and exhibited in various museums, mainly in the Netherlands and the U.S., he is a voyager and developer of subconscious calligraphy. His practice is to the side of related to the “automatism form of surrealist art. Shriki is afterward known as video artist with regular exhibition in Saatchi Gallery. Shriki is known as without difficulty as creator of embassy caricatures
which caused some global protest. His paintings are rarely sold to private collectors and he is an grasping donor of his works for charitable causes.The last exhibition of Shlomo Shriki took place in the Kastra Museum in Haifa, Israel, 2003. Israeli art critic Leah Etgar even if interviewing the player chose to outline his comment “sometimes it is more important to know what to erase rather than what to paint”. This attitude reflects in a very clear way the artists philosophy, that is the main drive at the back his creation.
In the beginning of May 2009, Shriki broke a sticker album sale price with his work “L’Orchestra” was sold to a Chinese squirrel in Hong Kong for the staggering price of 1.25 Million $ US. LATE EXHIBITION: Shlomo Shriki Retrospective, full retrospective of his decree including paintings, sculpture, photografy and video. February 2012, Yifat Gallery. Including works loaned by King Hassan collection, Shimon Peres collection, Shalom Bauchman collection.
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