Ron Asulin is the Recipient of the Ilana Elovic-Bezalel Prize for Excellence in the Arts 2024

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem together with Dr. Eugene Elovic and Family are proud to announce that the recipient of the Ilana Elovic-Bezalel Prize for Excellence in the Arts 2024 is Ron Asulin. Ron is a graduate with honors of the Department of Fine Arts at Bezalel Academy.

According to the Selection Committee: "Ron is a sculptor who creates various interferences within existing elements or found objects, pouring into them new ideas or narratives. In work incorporates social, cultural and political tensions through the use of disruption or infiltration into existing structures in which he manages to evoke a sense of detachment. The Committee Members were impressed by his unique voice and his consistent search for relevant patterns for the current artistic discourse and for what transpires in histories and regions that are uncomfortable to reflect or represent. He does this through the use of distinct and precise measures that result in an original sculptural language that expresses chronic subverions as a stable situation, raising questions of hyper-organized violent codependency as a camouflage mechanism, of organized violence and tension or rifts as newly-found orders.”

Selection Committee Members: Chair - Jossef Krispel, Head of the Department of Fine Arts; Prof. Sharon Yaari, lecturer in the Department of Photography; Prof. Yehudit Sasportas, lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts; and Adi Dahan, Associate Curator at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as public representative.

The prize ceremony in the presence of Dr. Eugene Elovic and family will be held on 4 November 2024 at the Ilana Elovic Gallery in Bezalel Academy's Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Campus.

Previous recipients of the Prize are: Essa Grayeb (2023), Danielle Kaganov (2022), Tal Engelstein (2021), Asaf Elkalai (2018), Oree Holban (2017), Esther Schneider (2016), Yitzhak Golombek (2014) and Amnon Ben Ami (2012).

Ilana Elovic passed away in 2006 after battling with cancer. Ilana dedicated her life to art, and worked in different mediums, including painting, ceramics, glass and jewelry design. Upon learning of her illness, Ilana began to engage almost exclusively in her artistic work.

The prize in memory of Ilana is intended to help and encourage young artists at the start of their careers and is awarded to graduates of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, up to 7 years from their graduation.