material. The use of such simple and cheap material identified with the establishment of Israel and thus created a new, unique Israel voice. In 2002, a retrospective exhibit opened at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on Lavie entitled "Rafi Lavie: Works from 1950 to 2002". This exhibit had a new interpretation of Lavie and his followers work. The new interpretation showed how Lavie's work was romantic, rich, filled with the Jewish religion and European roots. In 2005, he had a solo exhibition at Givon Gallery in Tel Aviv. Lavie represented Israel in the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. Gallery Awards 1978 The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv References External links Israeli graffiti artists Israeli journalists Israeli Jews People from Tel Aviv 1937 births 2007 deaths Deaths from pancreatic cancer Deaths from cancer in Israel Israeli contemporary artists Israeli collage artists Jewish artists 20th-century Israeli painters 21st-century Israeli painters 20th-century journalists