Litvak Gallery, which has generated significant buzz for its lavish exhibition displays at SOFA Chicago 2008 and 2009, is taking the wraps off of a 9,000-square-foot gallery in Museum Tower, a prestigious office building in Tel Aviv, Israel, with an opening party at 8:30 PM on December 17th.
Interviewed at his SOFA booth last November, owner Muly Litvak described the new gallery’s 20-foot-tall ceilings and state-of-the-art systems to control every aspect of the display of artwork. He said that the opening exhibition would be a group show of 24 of the most important living artists working in glass. Ann Wolff‘s cast glass work Andante (2005) is on the gallery’s Save-The-Date card for the opening next Thursday, and the names of Howard Ben Tré, Peter Bremers, Lucio Bubacco, José Chardiet, Dale Chihuly, Vàclav Cigler, Daniel Clayman, Steffen Dam, Richard Jolley, Joey Kirkpatrick & Flora Mace, VladimÍr Kopecký, Dante Marioni, Tobias M?hl, William Morris, ?t?pán Pala, Zora Palová, JaromÍr Rybák, Davide Salvadore, Lino Tagliapietra, Bertil Vallien, Julius Weiland, and Ji?ina ?ertovà are listed on the gallery’s website. Livak told GLASS that the first solo exhibition would be for the work of Vàclav Cigler in March 2010.
IF YOU GO:
Litvak Gallery “Grand Opening” December 17, 2009, 8:30 PM Museum Tower 4 Berkowitz Street Tel Aviv, Israel Website: www.litvak.com