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Ofer Lellouche (born 1947 in Tunis) is a versatile Israeli artist, renowned as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and videographer. Trained in Tel Aviv and Paris, he is distinguished by his self-portraits, landscapes, and explorations in video art and printmaking, with an innovative and colorful approach.
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After studying mathematics and physics in Paris, Lellouche moved to Israel in 1966 and began painting in 1968 during a military convalescence. He trained at the Avni Institute under Yehezkiel Streichman, then pursued sculpture with César Baldaccini in Paris and earned a master's degree in literature on Stéphane Mallarmé.
In the 1970s, he experimented with video art and self-portraits, as well as printmaking with intense industrial colors. In 1979, he created several videos on the theme of the mirror, and in the 1980s, he expanded his practice to landscapes, includingFigure in a Landscape, presented at the 19th São Paulo Biennale.
In the early 1990s, he produced more than 600 etchings, illustrating the poemA throw of the dice will never abolish chanceof Mallarmé and publishes the booksPanimAndEin KaremSince the late 1990s, Lellouche has focused on sculpture and etching, creating monumental works in homage to his master César Baldaccini.
