For over three decades, Hanoch Piven has been crafting iconic assemblage portraits from everyday objects, which encapsulate the story behind the represented figure and offer a multi-layered artistic, design, and psychological reading. The unique stylistic language, which has become synonymous with him, combines vibrant color and profound symbolism, blending whimsy and wry humor with a sharp critical eye and an open invitation to dialogue with the viewer.
Piven’s exhibition at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art invites viewers to an experience of observation, experimentation, playfulness, and self-exploration based on methods for cultivating creativity and freeing the imagination, developed by Piven in his workshops, combined with art therapy approaches.
The exhibition’s title, reFORM, captures both the essence of the artistic act and its inherent potential for transformation and rectification. Piven invites the viewer—as well as himself as an artist—to let go of familiar patterns, attune to conditioned frameworks of thought, question them, and reflect an alternative narrative to the official one, as a first step toward deeper understanding of reality.