Artist Hilla Toony Navok is the recipient of the 2020 Discount Artistic Encouragement Award
Hilla Toony Navok.
HERZLIYA
.- Artist Hilla Toony Navok is the recipient of the 2020 Discount Artistic Encouragement Award at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Excerpt from the jurys reasoning: Hilla Toony Navoks works draw their inspiration from the material Israeli environment surrounding her. In her work familiar, readymade objects, and accordingly acute realism, are coupled with geometric abstraction. Contemporaneity and modernism are combined with great talent, encapsulating expressions of humor and critique of our time.
Hilla Toony Navok, born in 1974 in Tel Aviv, pursues both drawing and sculpting. She holds a bachelors degree in design from WIZO Haifa, and a masters degree in art from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Her works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in Israel and abroad. A work by Navok is on permanent display at the New Train Terminal in Jerusalem (Navon Station). She is a recipient of the Rapaport Prize (2020); Minister of Culture Award and Encouragement of Creativity Award by the Ministry of Culture (2012, 2019); The Israel Museums Kolliner Award for a Young Israeli Artist (2018); and the Tel Aviv Museum of Arts Givon Prize (2011), among others. In her work, Navok deciphers the codes of Israeli architecture and design, tracing degraded forms of high modernism and abstraction in popular consumer products. Her works are marked by surprising and original sculptural use of common, everyday materials and objects, thereby revealing their latent qualities and offering new ways of looking at them.