Collection: Lellouche Ofer

Ofer Lellouche, born April 19, 1947 in Tunis, is an Israeli painter, sculptor, engraver and videographer. After studying mathematics and physics in Paris at the Collège Saint-Louis, he left for Israel in 1966, settling in Kibbutz Yehiam. It was in 1968, during his service in the Israeli army, that he began to paint while convalescing from hepatitis.

Lellouche received formal art training at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv under Yehezkiel Streichman, a lyrical abstract painter. Returning to Paris, he studied sculpture with César Baldaccini and earned a master's degree in literature with a thesis on Stéphane Mallarmé. In the 1970s, he explored video art and self-portraits, also working in printmaking with strong industrial colors.

In 1979, he made several videos on the theme of the mirror. In the 1980s, he diversified his work by painting landscapes in addition to his self-portraits. His painting "Figure in a Landscape" was exhibited at the 19th São Paulo Art Biennial in 1987. In the early 1990s, he produced more than 600 etchings, illustrated Mallarmé's poem "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard" and published two books, "Panim" and "Ein Karem".

Since the late 1990s, Lellouche has devoted himself primarily to sculpture and etching, creating large-scale works in homage to his master César Baldaccini.