Jacob Gildor

Jacob Gildor is an Israeli artist, representative of the Surrealist movement in Israeli art and of the group of "Second Generation" of Holocaust survivors artists. He is a professional art advisor and consultant at Montefiore Auction House, Tel Aviv and MacDougall's Fine Art Auctions, London.

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Biography

In 1987 Gildor spent a year in Cite des Arts in Paris under an Israeli scholarship.
Throughout the years Gildor exhibited in many galleries in Israel, Sweden, Germany and France.
In 2009, a major comprehensive retrospective exhibition, "Segments of Creation", with Gildor's works throughout four decades, was held in the Museum of Israeli Art in Ramat-Gan. The exhibition was displayed for six months and accompanied by a three part complete monography.

The "Meshushe" Group

In 1980, Gildor was one of the founders of Meshushe group. The group's goal was to introduce Surrealist art to the Israel art space that was dominated by the abstract and conceptual art movements at the time. The founding group consisted of Gildor and five other surrealists: Baruch Elron, Yoav Shuali, Arie Lamdan, Asher Rodnitzky, and Rachel Timor. The group held exhibitions around Israel.

Second Generation

As the son of two Holocaust survivors, Gildor belonged to a group frequently called "The Second Generation".