Ilana Goor Museum
The Ilana Goor Museum was opened to the public during
September 1995.
The museum is located in a structure overlooking the
port of Jaffa which used to serve as a seaside inn for
pilgrims who seeked shelter on their way to Jerusalem.
Two hundered and fifty years ago this house was the
first stop for pilgrims who entered the Holy Land.
The massive walls of the structure are in correlation
with the architecture of the era and the function it
was meant to fulfill: a haven for pilgrims, since it
is located out side the walls of the old city.
Today, in the shining, restored citadel of ancient
Jaffa in Israel, the city’s first Jewish hostel
has been transfigurated by the vision of one artist
into a sanctuary of different kind. Ilana Goor, internationally
renowned artist, designer and sculptress, has created
an odyssey of the soaring spirit: a museum.
The museum presents many of Ilana's art works, and
quite a few creations by Israeli and international renowned
artists.
Out of love for her surroundings, Ilana has merged
a four thousand year old facility with modern art. The
museum is the embodiment of everything she believes
in and is molded in the shape of her homeland: the old
with the new, the rural along side the industrial, the
organic framed inside the geometrical- two combined
worlds becoming a complimentary, equalized and tolerant
unity.
The combination of the old with the new exists in many
art works in the museum, and leads to a discussion about
the “ready made” art. It is a reoccurring
motif both in Ilana’s work and in the work of
other artists shown in the museum.
The museum serves today as the artist’s home,
and the visitors are invited to explore the chambers
she has set before them.
Gracing the rooms are Ilana Goor’s life works:
sculptures, jewelry and furniture created from wood,
glass, bronze and iron; collection of etchings, paintings,
casting and carvings she has gathered from around the
globe.
In the museum there is a gallery that exhibits Ilana’s
work: sculptures, jewelry and furniture.
Ilana Goor- The Artist
Ilana Goor was born in Tiberias, Israel into a well-
known family of doctors, many of whom were also artists.
Her grandfather, Yossef Sapir, was one of the founders
of the Bezalel
School of Art.
Ilana began sculpting in Los Angeles in the late 60’s
and in 1972 the Los Angeles State Museum presented a
one woman show of Ilana Goor.
The artists statues were installed in the Yad Vashem
Memorial Museum, Jerusalem, and in many outdoor settings
in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and other cities throughout Israel.
Many of Ilana Goor’s works are owned by important
private collectors.
Goor presented exhibitions at Venturairte Multiscultra,
Bologna, Italy; Katia Granoff Gallery, Paris, France;
Spectrum Gallery, Vienna, Austria; Thorens Modern Art
Gallery, Basil, Switzerland; Larry Aldridge Museum,
Ridgefield, Conn.; Horace Richter Gallery, Jaffa, Israel;
Kunst Gallery, Al Vlaaringen, Netherlands; and Ingrid
Mensendich Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany.
In 1983, Ms. Goor designed
buckles and sold belts to most major department
stores in America including I Magnin, Neiman
Marcus, Bloomingdales, Macy’s,
Sacks Fifth Avenue.
In 1986, Ilana Goor introduced
a collection of iron furniture and accessories
to the American marketplace as limited editions
signed by Ilana .
In 1989, Ilana created a
line of jewelry being presently sold in
Japan and a bronze collection of furniture
and accessories for the markets of Japan
and the U.S.
Her works are presently displayed in sixteen decorator
and designer showrooms throughout the United States.
Her iron furniture collection was displayed in the Israel
Museum, Jerusalem in 1987 and she was awarded the Roscoe
award for the best design in residential seating in
1988.
In 1993, Ilana Goor introduced
her contract collection of furniture in
Japan along with her second collection of
jewelry.
During 1994, Ilana Goor
completed a new line of furniture introducing
the use of wood together with glass and
iron, and a new series of assemblages of
farming tools as an art form. These works
which assemble old plows, shredders are
the artist’s “back to nature”
statement, while living and creating on the
Mediterranean Sea. That year was also the
year in which the corner stone to the “Ilana
Goor Museum” was set.
Goor never studied art formally. Her art developed
within her as did technique, resulting in an independent,
uncompromising style and powerful works which combine
strength and emotion. Goor’s works are based on
realistic images and figures and are characterized by
different proportions and textures of the materials.
Ilana Goor Museum
Mazal dagim 4, old Jaffa, Israel.
Tel. 972-3-6837676
Fax. 972-3-6836699
www.ilanagoor.com
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