{{Infobox artist | name = Doron Solomons<br>דורון סולומונס | image = | image_size = 180px | caption = Photograph of Doron Solomons | birth_date = 1969 | birth_place = London, England | known_for = Video artist | training = Art Teachers' Training College, Ramat Hasharon | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = }} '''Doron Solomons''' (Hebrew: דורון סולומונס; born 1969) is an Israeli video artist.
== Biography == Doron Solomons is a video artist born in London. In 1994-1991, he studied at the HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts, Ramat Hasharon. He lives and works in Ramat Gan.
==Art career== Since 2000, Solomon's artistic work has been influenced by his experience as a professional news editor, the materials to which he is exposed in this capacity, and the ethical problems posed.<ref name="cca">{{cite web|url=http://cca.org.il/?p=598&lang=en|publisher=The Center for Contemporary Art|work=Exhibitions News & Events|title=Doron Solomons|accessdate=October 4, 2011}}</ref>
== Teaching == * Kalisher School of Art, Tel Aviv * Art Teachers' Training College, Ramat Hasharon
==Awards and recognition== * 1998 2004 The Minister of Education, Culture and Sport Prize, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport * 2006 The Hadassah and Rafael Klatchkin Prize, Artic 9, The Sharett Foundation, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
== Video art == * The Long Arm of the Law (2002) <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYHdbPfCIA|title=The Magician: The long arm of the Law|publisher=Haifa Museum|format=video|accessdate=October 4, 2011}}</ref> * Inventory (2001) - Doron Solomons reviews his life about the material inventory of all his belongings. Beginning with his wife to counting all the cassette tapes and things in his life, Solomons reflects on materialism as a whole and the proprietary relationship between a man and a woman.<ref>{{IMJ-Collections|first=Doron|last=Solomons|accessdate=October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3845588,00.html|title=The Inventory of Doron Solomons|newspaper=YNet|date=February 8, 2010|accessdate=October 4, 2010|language=he}}</ref> * Group Picture with a War (2005) – commissioned by the In Flanders Fields Museum to create a work from their collection of films dating back to World War I, Solomons unsurprisingly chose all the “behind-the-scenes” depictions, gaps, and intervals between battles: the men in the trenches, sleeping, treating the wounded.<ref name="cca" /> * Tonight’s Headlines (2006) – in this work we find the newest version of the “eloquent silence” series running through Solomons’ oeuvre. The work starts like an ordinary night edition of the news on Israeli Channel 2, but when the time comes for the anchors to announce the headlines, they stare at the camera, without uttering a word. They keep the gestures and body language characteristic of the media just as much as the spoken language itself.<ref name="cca" /> * Shopping Day (2006), Solomons directly addresses the language of advertising and branding industries and their limited filmic lexicon. Using his editorial skill and editing language, he manages to subvert the message and create a drama of a daily and minor tragedy showing not only himself, but also this visual language, as pathetic.<ref name="cca" /> * Good night (2008) - A father reads his son a bedtime story but falls asleep. The son covers, and in the end, smothers the father. The work refers to the reality of sons who bury their father and considers the local harsh reality of fathers burying their sons.<ref>{{in lang|he}} [http://hironit.co.il/?CategoryID=1078&ArticleID=2497 Mix-Art Festival”, Rishon Le-Zion park 2008] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425050930/http://hironit.co.il/?CategoryID=1078&ArticleID=2497 |date=April 25, 2012 }}</ref>
== Articles == * From Haifa to London and back, Haaretz - Guide, October 22, 2010 * The Old Objectivity, Haaretz - Gallery, August 13, 2010
==See also== *Israeli art
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMJ-Collections|first=Doron|last=Solomons|accessdate=March 2012 }} * {{Europeana|first=Doron|last=Solomons|accessdate=March 2012}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110915045526/http://www.sommergallery.com/,gallery4,132 Doron Solomons at the Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery]
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