ABOUT THE ARTIST
Salo Saul was born in Mexico in 1947. He completed his studies in architecture at the National University of Mexico in 1971. In 1974 he immigrated to Israel and settled in Kibbutz Ein Gev. Between 1977-1983 he studied photography, ceramics and stone sculpture at the Jordan Valley Regional College and at Tel Hai Academic College. Salo’s work was influenced by South American artists like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and Israeli artists such as Nahum Gutman and Reuven Rubin. This duality of sources of inspiration creates a unique interpretation of shapes and colors in his art, by using a combination of colorful ceramics in his sculptures. Salo’s sculptural language also draws on architecture and is reflected in the sculpted structures he creates with concrete and basalt. Nowadays Salo teaches sculpture at the Jordan Valley Regional College and at a branch of the University of Haifa in Tel Hai. His works are displayed in many places and have been purchased for private collections in Israel and abroad. Salo Saul lives and works in Kibbutz Ein Gev.
