Knowing how to ‘Walk a Talk’

‘Do not be fearful to travel slowly. Be fearful to mount still” is a Japanese motto that artist Ika Abravanel has taken to heart in each section of his life. Born and lifted in Jerusalem, Abravanel’s artistic talents were nurtured during a unequivocally immature age by artist Yvette Schupak, a former tyro of Marc Chagall. For many years, art took a backseat for Abravanel as he achieved venerable careers in a IDF as good as in a business sector. Now, as he stairs into “the third chapter” of his life, Abravanel has returned to his lifelong passion of art and is presenting his initial solo exhibition, entitled ‘Walk a Talk’ during a Farkash Gallery in a Old City of Jaffa.

The Jerusalem Post sat down with Abravanel to plead his successful credentials and how business has influenced his art.

Before relocating into a artistic world, what was your veteran background?

I was in a IDF for 24 years. The final position we had was a Head of a Planning Division. we finished my troops use as a brigadier ubiquitous and we motionless that we wanted to step into a business sector. we started as a CEO of a Israeli Chamber of Commerce and afterwards we was a CEO of a start-up traffic with MVNO practical operators. we afterwards assimilated Pelephone, that during that time was in genuine difficulty and was afterwards promoted to emissary CEO of Bezeq. Later on, we became conduct of HR in Teva and after that, Chief Integration Officer for several years.

You speak about relocating into a third section of your life. Can we elaborate?

After carrying a illusory career during Teva, we motionless that we would like to have a third section in my life, so we left Teva and given afterwards have finished many things. First is philanthropy, since we wish to give behind after we have gotten so much. So, we am unequivocally active in 4 or 5 nonprofit associations like Alut and Krembo Wings. Second, we started my PhD in formation during Haifa University. we also learn there as partial of a Executive MBA. The third partial is business, not so most to make money, though to keep myself in a field. So we assimilated EMDA; we am a partner there.

When did we get behind into painting?

I started to paint unequivocally severely around 5 years ago. In a final 9 months, we have presented in Torino and final week in Vienna and now it is going to be my initial solo muster in Israel. we am portrayal roughly each day. Either we open a day in a studio or finish a day in a studio – with a assistance of Aharon Farkash, who is pulling me to work unequivocally tough and foster myself professionally.

Were we always meddlesome in art?

I started during a unequivocally early age. we was propitious to be a crony of a man whose mom was a famous painter during a time; she was a tyro of Marc Chagall. Her name was Yvette Schupak; she upheld divided 20 years ago. [Schupak] started to learn me when we was 5 or 6 years old, and we assimilated Bezalel – not as a tyro – though there were some groups in Jerusalem and afterwards we assimilated a army and we stopped. Here and there we painted, though it was not so serious.

After being a veteran in a business universe for so many years, how would we review that to now being an artist?

There is a disproportion with a business zone and to be an artist. In a business sector, teamwork is a pivotal and we need to be on time and strech your targets on time. With art, we don’t have a reduction of time; a customarily reduction is a approach that we inspect your work. In business, we are not alone – we have to remonstrate a organisation of people. In a studio we am alone, and a customarily one that can impugn me is myself.

Comparing a two, they are utterly different, though there is also something similar. If we wish to strech successful work we have to be unequivocally accurate with what we are doing and we have to work in a purify way.

How did we come adult with a name of a muster ‘Walk a Talk’?

It was Aharon Farkash’s idea.

‘Walk a Talk’ is a tenure we used in business, as mostly we have a devise or an thought that we devise and during a finish of a day it stays on a paper or we do something. We used this vernacular many times in Teva or Bezeq. So here it comes, we start to do it.

The muster is done adult of 21 paintings of epitome landscapes. Can we explain your process?

The substructure is customarily a breathtaking perspective photo. After sketch a outline, we leave a print and swell with a painting, with no specific direction, and afterwards a colors and a black acrylic accents, and a minimal resolutions are totally pointless and are done in genuine time. My mindfulness with sum represents who we am and therefore when a work is totally abstract, we have a transparent appropriateness to delineate a transformation and support it so that it will come to an accurate and transparent expression, transparent and distinct, roughly like in photography.

Where do we consider your artistic character is headed? Do we wish to continue with landscapes?

I don’t wish to decide, this is a upsurge and we let myself surrender, we don’t have to be in control. All my life we was in control, in a IDF and a business sector, and now we cite not be in control. It is not so easy, since we am used to being in control and planning. Discipline is unequivocally important, we wish to get improved and develop.

“Walk a Talk” is on uncover during The Farkash Gallery by Dec 6.
For some-more information revisit www.farkashartgallery.com

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