Dalia Forman Design
65 East 96th Street
NY
10128
New York
United States
Phone: 9174347189
Email : [email protected]
URL : www.daliaforman.com/
About
Founded in 2023 by Argentine-born designer and curator Dalia Forman, the gallery presents a curated selection of **fine art, sculpture, murals, hand-crafted rugs, bespoke furniture, ,. Working with artists and makers across South America, and worldwide, the gallery emphasizes exceptional craftsmanship, materiality, cultural narratives, and contemporary expression.
With a gallerist’s eye, Forman creates thoughtful dialogues between art and design, bringing together one-of-a-kind and collectible works that are both visually compelling and rooted in their makers’ stories.
Guided by **“Luxury Design, Art, and Heritage,”** Dalia Forman Design connects artists, makers, collectors, designers, and institutions through a contemporary vision of art and collectible design.
Carolina Pavetto El Color del Oro
Marc Provisor One Horizon
About the Artist
Sometimes it comes from the earth, from wool, and from the hands that know the right moment for each fiber.
In this piece, sheep’s wool is dyed with natural dyes and worked using the Chusi technique, *pelo cortado* (cut pile), reviving an ancestral practice and bringing it into a contemporary expression.
The material retains its character: the fibers, their irregularities, the variations in tone, and the imprint of the hands.
The deep yellow emerges as a territory between earth and gold. It does not seek to reproduce gold, but rather to evoke what holds greater value for Mantara: a heritage that is built, transformed, and preserved.
Mantara works with textile knowledge passed down from generation to generation, alongside communities that keep this craft alive.
This piece is part of that dialogue.
Between the ancestral and the contemporary.
Between material and design.
Between hands and time.
The color of gold is the color of a memory that remains alive.
Our project involves fair trade and circular design values. Our pieces revalorize the know-how and the ancestral techniques which the artisans from Santiago del Estero weave in each thread.
We string stories together, sew present and future focusing on taking care of the environment. Our rugs sum up the work of a community which feels respected, valued and integrated to the process of circular economy.
We believe in the creative spirit of design, in the textile which we create alongside the artisans and in the design which we develop and take to the whole country.
We respect our surroundings, the land and Nature in pursuit of achieving a balance where the environment is the protagonist of a new era; that’s why the output of the process is first class raw material.
From the very heart of Santiago del Estero begins a productive process, which involves the artisan Bernardina de Jesús Paz Silva, one of the pioneers of the entrepreneurship. The artisan who interpreted with her hands each design proposal passed away in June of 2020 and left an indelible mark on all of us.
With the Earth terribly threatened and with more doubts than certainties, this is a moment to reorganize and value collaborative formats. The transformation is powered from the purity of the material and the quality of the natural textiles. We do not use dyes neither chemical processes to alter the raw material.
We have the tools and the knowledge to string our own story together.
Marc Provisor (b. 1962, Philadelphia, USA) is a contemporary Israeli painter whose
work engages with the tension between beauty and chaos in the modern world. His
canvases weave abstraction with figurative hints, drawing upon themes of conflict,
resilience, and the search for spiritual grounding.
Provisor immigrated to Israel in 1978 and served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense
Forces from 1981 to 1984. It was during the Lebanese War that he began painting as a
means to process the traumas of combat — a friend gifted him a watercolor set, and he
found in art a means of translation and healing. After his military service, he pursued
formal art education in New York before returning to Israel in 1991, where he worked as
a Security Chief and Consultant in Terror Prevention, protecting communities in high-
risk areas.
Despite the demands of his security career, Provisor never abandoned art. Based
between Israel and New York City, his work oscillates between vibrant energy and
contemplative stillness — what he describes as “Beauty and Chaos” — offering viewers
an invitation to confront vulnerability while finding moments of quiet transcendence. He
often works on multiple pieces simultaneously, each reflecting different dimensions of
his experience.
Painting primarily in oil and mixed media on canvas, Provisor’s practice explores the
intersections of memory, landscape, and conflict. Through layered brushwork and
symbolic imagery, his paintings evoke both the immediacy of lived experience and the
timeless echoes of history — bearing witness to the resilience of the human spirit and
the fragility of the world we inhabit. His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries,
and cultural institutions across Israel, Europe, and the United States, and is held in
private collections worldwide.
Exhibiting Artists