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Naïve art comes of age

Tel Aviv’s Gallery of International Naïve Art will showcase 100 local works in Poland.

'Meeting for coffee'
Photo by: Courtesy (Tirza Horin Karagulla)
Dan Chill had a life-changing epiphany one late afternoon in 1983. A highly successful corporate lawyer, Chill was in the midst of a visit to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on behalf of Israel Aircraft Industries. Returning to his hotel after a particularly rough day of contract negotiations, Chill happened to notice some very unusual paintings in the window of an art gallery across the street. Even from a distance, he could see the almost riotous splashes of color and feel something stirring in his heart. He wandered over, stepped inside, and began the love affair with naïve art that continues to drive him today.

Since that first encounter, Dan Chill has been a man with a mission: to share his devotion to naïve art with the world, and to popularize it here in Israel. After some 20 years of acquiring a major collection of naïve art and showing it mostly to friends and family, he opened the Gallery of International Naïve Art (GINA) in Tel Aviv in 2003, featuring the work of naïve artists from all over the world.

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