About
Rosario embarked on a journey of artist management, dedicating over a decade to promoting emerging and established Israeli talents across various mediums as well as international artists.
Over the years, he has successfully placed several artists in prominent museum collections, helping them gain institutional recognition and long-term visibility.
The gallery serves as a true home for its artists, from traditional to nonconventional creators who challenge classic methods and explore new tools and materials, often working beyond the paintbrush.
His passion for contemporary art has been reciprocated in the support and loyalty of his growing clientele.
The gallery views this mission as an opportunity to foster unity and resilience, celebrating art’s power to connect people and transcend boundaries.
Nisticovich Gallery presents, among its selected artists, works by Natan Elkanovich, whose pioneering three-dimensional painting technique, NATANISM, has shaped his distinctive three-decade artistic career.
Working across painting, mixed media, canvas and aluminum surfaces, Elkanovich creates immersive compositions that blur the boundaries between image, texture, and dimension.
A four-time recipient of Israel's Academy Award for Best Costume Design, his work reflects a singular artistic vision shaped by decades of creative exploration.
NATAN ELKANOVICH Close-up detail from "Elegance in Bloom"
NATAN ELKANOVICH Field of Dreams
About the Artist
This original approach is not only a personal artistic language but also a significant milestone in the broader discourse of painting,
offering a new way to experience form, color, and expression.
With numerous international exhibitions and works held in important collections, Natan has established himself as an influential figure in today’s art world.
Natanism, as both a philosophy and a practice, reflects Natan’s uncompromising pursuit of authenticity. It embodies his vision that art is not only an aesthetic object but a living, breathing force that resonates across cultures and generations.
Through his work, Natan continues to inspire, challenge, and redefine what contemporary painting can be.
This year Natan will present "SHE WHO CREATES THE WORLD" painting series.
In this series Natan Elkanovich explores the relationship between woman, nature and creation.
A woman who can be understood as a contemporary goddess of nature and creation is in the center of this series.
She is not a figure taken from a particular mythology, but a new archetype, an imagined goddess for the present day,
embodying beauty, movement, water, wind, fire, growth and renewal.
The women in these works are not simply figures placed within a landscape.
Nature seems to move through them and around them.
Their flowing hair and garments suggest wind and water; flowers become extensions of their presence; and the landscape itself appears to respond to them.
In one work, a woman reaches toward a single flower in an expansive field, while a city emerges on the horizon.
The image suggests a reversal of the familiar relationship between nature and civilization: the city does not dominate the landscape,
but seems to grow from it. Nature becomes the source from which the human world is created.
This idea of creation is also central to Elkanovich's own artistic practice.
In this newest series, the physicality of the technique becomes inseparable from the subject.
The textures, layers and vivid forms give the flowers, garments and figures a sense of movement and presence, creating a visual language that exists somewhere between painting, drawing and relief.
The contemporary goddess therefore becomes more than a symbol of nature. She represents the creative force itself, the ability to transform, to give form, and to bring something that did not previously exist into the world.
There is also a parallel between her and the artist.
Nature creates life.
The goddess embodies creation.
The artist transforms material into form.
In Elkanovich's world, these forces meet in the same place: the act of creation.
She is not a goddess from the past.
She is a goddess of the present,
a contemporary embodiment of nature, beauty and the power to create.
Natan Elkanovich is a museum-level artist, widely recognized for his groundbreaking contribution to contemporary art through the creation of his unique technique.
This original approach is not only a personal artistic language but also a significant milestone in the broader discourse of painting,
offering a new way to experience form, color, and expression.
With numerous international exhibitions and works held in important collections, Natan has established himself as an influential figure in today’s art world.
Natanism, as both a philosophy and a practice, reflects Natan’s uncompromising pursuit of authenticity. It embodies his vision that art is not only an aesthetic object but a living, breathing force that resonates across cultures and generations.
Through his work, Natan continues to inspire, challenge, and redefine what contemporary painting can be.
This year Natan will present "SHE WHO CREATES THE WORLD" painting series.
In this series Natan Elkanovich explores the relationship between woman, nature and creation.
A woman who can be understood as a contemporary goddess of nature and creation is in the center of this series.
She is not a figure taken from a particular mythology, but a new archetype, an imagined goddess for the present day,
embodying beauty, movement, water, wind, fire, growth and renewal.
The women in these works are not simply figures placed within a landscape.
Nature seems to move through them and around them.
Their flowing hair and garments suggest wind and water; flowers become extensions of their presence; and the landscape itself appears to respond to them.
In one work, a woman reaches toward a single flower in an expansive field, while a city emerges on the horizon.
The image suggests a reversal of the familiar relationship between nature and civilization: the city does not dominate the landscape,
but seems to grow from it. Nature becomes the source from which the human world is created.
This idea of creation is also central to Elkanovich's own artistic practice.
In this newest series, the physicality of the technique becomes inseparable from the subject.
The textures, layers and vivid forms give the flowers, garments and figures a sense of movement and presence, creating a visual language that exists somewhere between painting, drawing and relief.
The contemporary goddess therefore becomes more than a symbol of nature. She represents the creative force itself, the ability to transform, to give form, and to bring something that did not previously exist into the world.
There is also a parallel between her and the artist.
Nature creates life.
The goddess embodies creation.
The artist transforms material into form.
In Elkanovich's world, these forces meet in the same place: the act of creation.
She is not a goddess from the past.
She is a goddess of the present,
a contemporary embodiment of nature, beauty and the power to create.
This original approach is not only a personal artistic language but also a significant milestone in the broader discourse of painting,
offering a new way to experience form, color, and expression.
With numerous international exhibitions and works held in important collections, Natan has established himself as an influential figure in today’s art world.
Natanism, as both a philosophy and a practice, reflects Natan’s uncompromising pursuit of authenticity. It embodies his vision that art is not only an aesthetic object but a living, breathing force that resonates across cultures and generations.
Through his work, Natan continues to inspire, challenge, and redefine what contemporary painting can be.
This year Natan will present "SHE WHO CREATES THE WORLD" painting series.
In this series Natan Elkanovich explores the relationship between woman, nature and creation.
A woman who can be understood as a contemporary goddess of nature and creation is in the center of this series.
She is not a figure taken from a particular mythology, but a new archetype, an imagined goddess for the present day,
embodying beauty, movement, water, wind, fire, growth and renewal.
The women in these works are not simply figures placed within a landscape.
Nature seems to move through them and around them.
Their flowing hair and garments suggest wind and water; flowers become extensions of their presence; and the landscape itself appears to respond to them.
In one work, a woman reaches toward a single flower in an expansive field, while a city emerges on the horizon.
The image suggests a reversal of the familiar relationship between nature and civilization: the city does not dominate the landscape,
but seems to grow from it. Nature becomes the source from which the human world is created.
This idea of creation is also central to Elkanovich's own artistic practice.
In this newest series, the physicality of the technique becomes inseparable from the subject.
The textures, layers and vivid forms give the flowers, garments and figures a sense of movement and presence, creating a visual language that exists somewhere between painting, drawing and relief.
The contemporary goddess therefore becomes more than a symbol of nature. She represents the creative force itself, the ability to transform, to give form, and to bring something that did not previously exist into the world.
There is also a parallel between her and the artist.
Nature creates life.
The goddess embodies creation.
The artist transforms material into form.
In Elkanovich's world, these forces meet in the same place: the act of creation.
She is not a goddess from the past.
She is a goddess of the present,
a contemporary embodiment of nature, beauty and the power to create.
Natan Elkanovich is a museum-level artist, widely recognized for his groundbreaking contribution to contemporary art through the creation of his unique technique.
This original approach is not only a personal artistic language but also a significant milestone in the broader discourse of painting,
offering a new way to experience form, color, and expression.
With numerous international exhibitions and works held in important collections, Natan has established himself as an influential figure in today’s art world.
Natanism, as both a philosophy and a practice, reflects Natan’s uncompromising pursuit of authenticity. It embodies his vision that art is not only an aesthetic object but a living, breathing force that resonates across cultures and generations.
Through his work, Natan continues to inspire, challenge, and redefine what contemporary painting can be.
This year Natan will present "SHE WHO CREATES THE WORLD" painting series.
In this series Natan Elkanovich explores the relationship between woman, nature and creation.
A woman who can be understood as a contemporary goddess of nature and creation is in the center of this series.
She is not a figure taken from a particular mythology, but a new archetype, an imagined goddess for the present day,
embodying beauty, movement, water, wind, fire, growth and renewal.
The women in these works are not simply figures placed within a landscape.
Nature seems to move through them and around them.
Their flowing hair and garments suggest wind and water; flowers become extensions of their presence; and the landscape itself appears to respond to them.
In one work, a woman reaches toward a single flower in an expansive field, while a city emerges on the horizon.
The image suggests a reversal of the familiar relationship between nature and civilization: the city does not dominate the landscape,
but seems to grow from it. Nature becomes the source from which the human world is created.
This idea of creation is also central to Elkanovich's own artistic practice.
In this newest series, the physicality of the technique becomes inseparable from the subject.
The textures, layers and vivid forms give the flowers, garments and figures a sense of movement and presence, creating a visual language that exists somewhere between painting, drawing and relief.
The contemporary goddess therefore becomes more than a symbol of nature. She represents the creative force itself, the ability to transform, to give form, and to bring something that did not previously exist into the world.
There is also a parallel between her and the artist.
Nature creates life.
The goddess embodies creation.
The artist transforms material into form.
In Elkanovich's world, these forces meet in the same place: the act of creation.
She is not a goddess from the past.
She is a goddess of the present,
a contemporary embodiment of nature, beauty and the power to create.
Exhibiting Artists