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Varda Ghivoly and Ilan Gelber work together since 1984. Their creations add a further link to the time-honored chain of stone sculpting. The sources of their artistic heritage lie in Classical stone sculpting, but are nevertheless connected to diverse modern outlooks. The artists hold a rich portfolio of environmental sculptures in Israel as well as abroad. They have spent an extensive period learning stone sculpting in the quarries of Pietra Santa, Italy, where they learned the processing and handling of stone – a strenuous physical work, taking sometimes place in complex environments and demanding specialized skills and firm discipline.
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During the 15 years that they have worked together, Israeli artists Varda Ghivoly and Ilan Gelber have garnered an impressive reputation as sculptors in stone. This is not a comprehensive survey of their achievements during this period, but a look at the ways in which their work has become bound up with their feelings and emotions as the children of Holocaust survivors.
The term Holocaust survivor has come to describe not only a prisoner in a concentration camp who managed to survive, but anyone persecuted by the Nazis, lost job and home, was forcibly put work, obliged to flee or going into hiding. Ilan's Romanian-born parents, for example, spent the war years in forced labor camps and, while still in their teens, arrived in Israel as refugees without any family members. Ilan was born in 1951, six years after their arrival.