LIORA KANTEREWICH
I was born in Bat Yam, fifth generation in Israel on my father's side who was born in Yessod Hamaalah. My mother was born in Bulgaria, and arrived in the country during World War II.
During the first twenty years of my life I was a sportswoman. I was a member of Israel's national volleyball team, a sports instructor in the IDF, and studied physical education at the Wingate Institute.
Due to a hip problem, I was forced to leave sports, and developed an interest in design, and later – in art. I studied at the Shenkar College of Textile and Fashion, Ramat Gan, and worked as a fashion designer. I studied computerized graphics at the One-to-One school, and drawing with artists Miri Nishri and Yaacov Mishori (who notably influenced my work).
Following physical education studies at Wingate Institute, I gave birth to my two children and focused on parenting and home making. I breast fed them with devotion and invested all my efforts in raising them. My sons are the greatest and most important creation in my life.
I started making art in my late thirties. Initially I engaged in painting, which gradually transformed into relief and subsequently became three-dimensional. I remember I went to buy paints in Jaffa, and on my way I passed by a shop for gift-wrapping materials. All of a sudden I saw a large plastic bag with countless colorful synthetic decorative ribbon-flowers. It looked like a colorful sculpture. I bought the entire bag before I had any idea what I would do with it. This was how my first works with wrapping matter as raw material began. At the time they were still two-dimensional. In the next phase I began coating everything with the colorful ribbons as a type of readymade. In the third phase, I felt a growing desire to construct forms. I started frequenting carpentry shops and other professionals from whom I learned (and still learn) how to realize my ideas.
I was born in Bat Yam, fifth generation in Israel on my father's side who was born in Yessod Hamaalah. My mother was born in Bulgaria, and arrived in the country during World War II.
During the first twenty years of my life I was a sportswoman. I was a member of Israel's national volleyball team, a sports instructor in the IDF, and studied physical education at the Wingate Institute.
Due to a hip problem, I was forced to leave sports, and developed an interest in design, and later – in art. I studied at the Shenkar College of Textile and Fashion, Ramat Gan, and worked as a fashion designer. I studied computerized graphics at the One-to-One school, and drawing with artists Miri Nishri and Yaacov Mishori (who notably influenced my work).
Following physical education studies at Wingate Institute, I gave birth to my two children and focused on parenting and home making. I breast fed them with devotion and invested all my efforts in raising them. My sons are the greatest and most important creation in my life.
I started making art in my late thirties. Initially I engaged in painting, which gradually transformed into relief and subsequently became three-dimensional. I remember I went to buy paints in Jaffa, and on my way I passed by a shop for gift-wrapping materials. All of a sudden I saw a large plastic bag with countless colorful synthetic decorative ribbon-flowers. It looked like a colorful sculpture. I bought the entire bag before I had any idea what I would do with it. This was how my first works with wrapping matter as raw material began. At the time they were still two-dimensional. In the next phase I began coating everything with the colorful ribbons as a type of readymade. In the third phase, I felt a growing desire to construct forms. I started frequenting carpentry shops and other professionals from whom I learned (and still learn) how to realize my ideas.
