Ra’anan Harlap, (b. 1957) is an artist and teacher, a graduate of the Art Department at Bezalel Academy and Kerem Institute for Teacher Training. He has exhibited his works in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries in Israel and abroad, including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, and the Herzliya Museum Biennale. His works are in museum and private collections such as the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Ashdod Museum of Art, and the Knesset Collection. His work Scafholdings is permanently displayed at the Minshar Art School in Tel Aviv.

Harlap is also an art teacher. He has taught at the Ramat Eliyahu Art Workshop and Shenkar College. He is the Art Department Coordinator at the Ilan Ramon High School in Hod Hasharon. He received the 2012 Ministry of Culture Prize and the 2023 Plumas Art Foundation grant.

In my final project, I decided to continue exploring the theme of building, but in a different way than I did in my recent works, where I approached building from a single viewpoint. The current work focuses on a free-standing sculpture at the center of the space. The project emphasizes the move from the model to the object. The displayed work is like a rickety structure that changes and becomes stable. It is a direct continuation of its model, which I built on a different scale from thin pieces of wood joined with an iron cord. For the sculpture, I replaced these flimsy materials with constructive details made of solid wood and connected with strong joints. The playfulness and changes I made during construction give the sculptured object a unique character. The structure itself is based on the many viewpoints the object gathers within it.

This work connects thoughts and feelings, abstract and tangible, and model and object.