Ilan Garibi

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Ilan Garibi
אילן גריבי
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Photo by Yoav Garibi
Born1965 (age 57–58)
Hadera
Nationality Israeli
Known for origami, design
Website garibiorigami.com

Ilan Garibi (born 1965) is an Israeli origami artist and designer. He started his way in the world of art and design as a paper origami artist, and today also designs furniture, jewelry and works of art out of a variety of materials, such as metals, wood, and glass. He masters an origami genre called Tessellation. During 2012 he co-established Origamisrael, the Israeli origami artists' organization, and he is its chairman ever since. He is an author of several books in the fields of origami and puzzles. In September 2019, Garibi presented a TEDx talk as part of TEDxPaloAltoSalon. [1]

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Personal life

Garibi was born and raised in Hadera, the second of five children to Shula and Salman Garibi. He is married to Sigal and father to three. In 1983 he joined the IDF and served as an intelligence officer until he retired in 2009 as a lieutenant colonel.

Origami

Garibi is folding origami from a young age. During his sixth grade, he learned to fold from the book “Origami 1” by Robert Harbin, and later on from the other three books in the series. [2] During 2006 he joined the Israeli Origami Center, where he managed the folders' club between 2009-2011. In 2008 he started to create original origami designs, which he published in Flickr and various international origami groups. In 2009, after retiring from the military, he started to teach Creative and Scientific Thinking Through Origami to gifted students in the 'Techno Da' school in Hadera. Since 2011 Garibi is an editor for The Fold, the online magazine of OrigamiUSA. [3] He conducted and published a series of Paper Review articles, in which he analyzes different types of paper to find how suitable they are for origami. He also writes the Origami Designer Secrets column, in which he interviews young origami artists from all over the world about their creative process. [4] Diagrams to dozens of Garibi's origami models have been published in many international origami magazines, such as the British Origami Society magazine, the Spanish group origami magazine Pajarita, the American magazine The Paper, The Dutch magazine Orison, and others. [5] He was also invited to many origami conventions as special guest.

During 2012 Garibi established, together with Dr. Saadya Sternberg and Gadi Vishne, the Origami Artists of Israel organization (then OASIS), and since then acting as its chairman. In 2016 the organization changed its name to Origamisrael, and as of 2019 it includes 120 members, and hosts an annual international convention. [6] In 2017 Garibi founded the Convention for Creators (CFC), a professional convention for origami artists. The first CFC was in Lyon, September 2017, and the 2nd in Zaragoza, February 2020.

Design

In 2010 Garibi met architect Gal Gaon, the owner of Talents Design gallery in Tel Aviv, who guided him into the design world. [7] The first project for the gallery was to design origami lamps for Aqua Creations design studio. [8] The series was developed with the studio's employee Ofir Zucker, and was called Molecules. It was presented during Milan Design Week 2011, and still being sold (2020). Later on, in 2012, Garibi collaborated with Zucker again to make a series of concrete vases using folded paper as the mold. In 2013 Garibi designed wall tiles for Kaza Concrete, based on his original origami tessellation. [9]

In 2012 Garibi learned how to fold metal sheets, using laser cutting. The technique is based on several steps: the cutting pattern is planned and diagramed according to the fold lines of the paper design; the file is sent to a laser machine to cut a metal sheet; after cutting the metal sheet is moved to a clean environment and then hand folded according to the original design. Garibi started to work with plain stainless steel and later on moved to mirror finishing stainless steel. [10] The folded mirror creates a multi-facet reflection that gives the art pieces a unique look. Garibi designed several collections with this technique, that were presented in various exhibitions during the years 2013-2019. The collections include works of art and works of design, such as tables, lamps, wall tiles and more.

In 2014 Garibi started making jewelry. His first collection was called “Paper Wood Metal”. The series included bracelets, pendants, and rings made out of folded brass sheets, and folded wood. The brass was prepared with photochemical etching technique.

During the years Garibi tried his hands with a variety of materials such as leather, fabric, glass, cement, brass, aluminum, iron, copper, stainless steel, ceramic, and plastic.

Since 2013 Garibi is part of the academic staff in Holon Institute of Technology, in both the Interior Design and the Industrial Design departments. [11]

Exhibitions

Garibi's works have been presented in several solo exhibitions, such as "Origami Space" at the Bavli gallery, Tel Aviv 2014; [12] "Intricate Simplicity" at the FROOTS gallery, Beijing 2017; [13] and a solo exhibition at "Fresh Paint 11" Fair, Tel Aviv 2019, presenting rust and mirror stainless steel works. [14]

He also participated in many group exhibitions and fairs, some of which are: "Fresh Paint" Fair, with Gal Gaon Gallery, Tel Aviv 2013-2016; [15] "MiArt" Trade Fair, Milan 2013-2014; [16] [17] "Brand New World", Milan 2015; [18] Shanghai art Fair, 2016; and “The expression of geometry, origami mix of media”, EMOZ, Zaragoza 2019. [19] In early 2019 he won the first place of an International Postcard Exhibition by the Surface Gallery, London with the work "The World is not Flat". [20]

Garibi also curated several exhibitions, such as "Paper Creatures" (2016) and "Paper Heroes" (2017), at the Old Jaffa Museum. [21]

Some of his permanent installations include: "The Duchess", a wall work installed at the bar of The Duchess restaurant in Amsterdam, stainless steel with mirror finish (2015); [22] and Bavli Park Tessellated Wall, 48 meters long, hand-folded stainless steel (2014).


Publications

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References

  1. ↑ Ilan Garibi (September 21, 2019). Always folding - how origami changed my life. TED.
  2. ↑ Itiel, Yoav (April 30, 2010). "Tiger of paper". Gefen magazine (in Hebrew).
  3. ↑ "The Fold - Editorial Team". OrigamiUSA. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  4. ↑ Garibi "interviews" himself for his column, "Origami Designer's Secrets: Ilan Garibi". OrigamiUSA. June 2015.
  5. ↑ "Origami Database Search Results for Ilan Garibi". Gilad's Origami Page. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  6. ↑ "About OrigamIsrael". OrigamIsrael website (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  7. ↑ "Interview with Ilan Garibi at Brand New World Milano 2015". Belgrade Design Week. Archived from the original on 2020-10-28. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  8. ↑ "Molecules Family". Aqua Creations. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  9. ↑ "Quadilic tiles". KAZA. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  10. ↑ Nachmani, Yonat (March 3, 2013). "In Folding: Ilan Garibi is Making Origami out of Stainless Steel". Calcalist (in Hebrew).
  11. ↑ "Faculty & staff". Holon Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  12. ↑ "Sculpting the surroundings". Saloona magazine (in Hebrew). March 3, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Intricate Simplicity: Ilan Garibi's Origami". the Beijinger. 20 August 2017. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  14. ↑ "Ilan Garibi - Folded Logic". Fresh Paint. Archived from the original on 2020-06-06. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  15. ↑ "Gal Gaon Gallery - Man on Moon". Fresh Paint. Archived from the original on 2020-06-06. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  16. ↑ "New origami inventions". Material District. August 7, 2013.
  17. ↑ "Milan's 2014 MiArt fair highlights". Wallpaper. April 3, 2014.
  18. ↑ "Ilan Garibi". Brand New World. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  19. ↑ García, Raquel (December 27, 2019). "The mix of Israeli origami styles arrives in Zaragoza". El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish).
  20. ↑ Post by Surface Gallery on Instagram. February 14, 2019.
  21. ↑ "Mayuko Fujino participates in the "Paper Creatures" exhibition at the Jaffa Museum". Art Reveal Magazine. September 6, 2016.
  22. ↑ "Ilan Garibi's Metal Origami wall at award-winning Dutchess Bar". Patricia Findlay. December 30, 2015.
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