Art Shows > Jerusalem Artists House Exhibitions June - July 20
Jerusalem Artists House Exhibitions June - July 20 / The Jerusalem Artists Houseטלפון - 02-6253653 13/06/2009 to - 12/07/2009 Orna Millo Something is Written There / Painting Curator: Irit Levin The exhibition deals with a topic that Orna Millo has focused on for the past two decades - blockage. She investigated the imagery of blockage both from a theoretical point of view as well as a representational perspective in a wide variety of media and contexts - painting, drawing, installation and performance - to explore the dialogue between word and matter in different ways. The exhibition explores the interaction between the different materials and surfaces of the paintings and their contents. This examination illuminates the motif of blockage in a new way. Gallery talk (in Hebrew) Thursday, 2.7.09 at 19:00pm The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue Oded Balilty Hide & Seek / Photography Curator: Alex Levac ''As a journalist, I have spent years documenting reality and seeking the truth that hides behind it. One of the central subjects in my work has been walls. I have climbed over many walls and fences, and have noticed that more than hiding what is behind them, their very appearance reveals something about what they conceal sometimes more than would be revealed if they were knocked down. In 2008, as a photographer for The Associated Press in China, I spent a year in Beijing during the preparations for the Olympics. My long stay there included intensive and daily contact with an environment undergoing dramatic change. Western-style concrete monsters popped up every day, in my eyes an expression of the destruction and neglect of the local landscape in favor of what looked like wrapped presents intended for the West: opulent on the outside and grey and empty on the inside. Against the everyday greyness of Beijing, the colorful new buildings stood as a surreal testament of a desire to resemble the West as much as possible. The contrast that recurs in my work between colors, between subject and background, reality and imagination, left and right was everywhere, just waiting for me to photograph it. I have worked as a documentary photographer for close to a decade, and people have always appeared in my work. At first, I photographed them to tell their stories in my own way. This time I decided to tell a story about people without people''. (Oded Balilty) Oded Balilty is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography, 2007 6th Exhibition in the 15th Nidbach Series: Uri Stahl Calamity Seed / Painting Curator: Arik Miranda Uri Stahl is mostly engaged with painting, but he does not restrict himself to this media alone. Stretched canvases are of equal value as small cloth napkins attached to jar lids, or wooden crosses stained with paint that he has come across. In his paintings he searches for the delicate position between horror and calamity and naïve fantasy. He stretches the boundaries of the painted surfaces to the point where pleasure turns into pain and where suffering is full of gentleness. Stahl mixes into his work materials from life These might not be your lives, but they are definitely his own: young boys' female idols stretched out on cars on a roadside; hares or rabbits in nature; childhood monsters threatening golden-haired, ice-cold princesses. Stahl is deeply acquainted with the history of art. He has also familiarized himself and assimilated the critical discourse. Uri also knows how to paint, but he would not let any weight become a burden on his feet. In his painting as in the music he creates everything mixes into a sweet noise, into a private regularity of his own a language swallowed with lust. (Arik Mirenda) Anastasia Ben-Yaacov Creation: Being from Being, Being Out of Nothingness / Painting Curator: Ruth Apter-Gabriel Anastasia Ben-Yaacov maintains in her works a continuous dialogue with prominent old master artists such as Piero della Francesca, Velázquez and Vermeer. While retaining the general outlay of the original compositions she exchanges the paintings personae for her immediate circle, humorously including her inquisitive face. Supplementing the past, she enriches the interaction of forms with the additional dimension of the interaction of time. Anastasia Ben-Yaacovs paintings are the result of complex artistic and philosophical processes. The Divine presence represented through Hebrew letters and words from prayers; renowned Renaissance iconography; the artist and her immediate family; the artist facing nature in her landscape paintings and still lives are the main themes through which she creates an enigmatic pictorial reality. Gallery talk (in Hebrew) Saturday, 20.6.09 at 12:00pm Additional opening: Sun., 14.6.09 at 17:00 The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue location - The Jerusalem Artists House Time - 13/06/2009 to - 12/07/2009 |
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