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Guests in the Gallery: six artists from Delft Holland
Our permanent readers will know that we just write about Tel Aviv-Yafo, and Tel Aviv-Yafo only. This time we make an exception: in the city of Kfar-Saba, north of Tel Aviv, an exhibition of 6 artists from Delft, Holland (Netherlands) opened a few days ago. The exhibition is a part of the twin-cities project: Delft-Kfar-Saba, a friendship since 1968 (!). The 6 artist from Delft are: Laura Bakker, Willem van den Hoed, Coen de Jong, Erik … Read entire article »
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Exhibition of Yakov Agor in Tel Aviv Museum of Art
This week an exhibition was opened in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art about the Israeli photographer Yakov Agor (1911-1996), who became famous for his pictures in the left-wing weekly ‘HaOlam-Haze’ (Uri Avneri) and later on in ‘Haaretz Magazine’... Information: 03-607.7020 … Read entire article »
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Dov Carmi exhibition in the Helena Rubinstein Pavillion
In the Helena Rubenstein Pavillion for Contemporary Art (Tarsat Boulevard 6) you will find an exhibition about the famous International Style (‘Bauhaus’) architect Dov Carmi under the name: ‘Dov Carmi, Architect-Engineer, Public Domestica‘. Dov Carmi was born in 1905 in Odessa and came to Palestine in 1921. He went to the ‘L’Ecole du Beaux Art’ in Gent (Belgium) to study architecture. Back in Palestine he designed more then 50 International Style buildings (1930-1950 ) in Tel … Read entire article »
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Neo-Expressionist paintings from Berlin in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
This days you can visit a new exhibition in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art: ‘Neo-Expressionist Painting from Berlin’. The exhibition will show you figurative and expressive painting, characterized by large formats, intense colors, narrative, direct personal exposure, provocativeness and seductivenes. There are selected works by some of the prominent Neo-Expressionists active in Berlin of the 1970s and 1980s: Karl Horst Hodicke, Rainer Fetting, Salome, Helmut Middendorf and Peter Chevallier. More information: www.tamuseum.org.il … Read entire article »
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Homage to Avigdor Arikha at Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art will tribute a homage to the Romanian born Israeli painter Avigdor Arikha, who died last April the 29th. The exhibition will be in two parts. The first part, planned with the artist before his death, at the age of 81, includes illustrations to S.Y. Agnon‘s ‘A Stray Dog’ , woodcuts and drawings made during the 1950′s and represent Arikha’s development from the figurative to the abstracts. The second part presents 19 self-portraits: the earliest from 1948 and later ones with his image as a painter, working and observing himself, against the background of the studio and its surroundings. The latest portrait was made in 2001, in Arikha’s Paris studio, as he was approaching his 70th birthday. For more information: www.tamuseum.org.il … Read entire article »
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David LaChapelle in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
This days you will find a large exhibition in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art about David LaChapelle (born on March the 11th/1963 in Fairfields, Conneticut), the world famous fashion, advertising- and fine art-photographer. His surreal, unique stills are mostly in a humorous style. Elton John was many times his favorite ’object’. For openings-time of the exhibition and more information go to: www.tamuseum.org.il … Read entire article »
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A new exhibition of Eliora Steimatzky-Schwartz in Tel Aviv
The Israeli ‘naive’ landscape painter Eliora Steimatzky-Schwartz will have a new exhibition, ‘Storyboard‘, in Tel-Aviv. The exhibition will open on Thursday, April 29th, at 19:30 at the Artists’ House, 9 Elharazi Street. The exhibition, curated by Doron Polak, will end on May 23rd. For more information, opening hours, see the website of Eliora: www.eliora-art.com … Read entire article »
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Moshe Mirsky in Dvir Gallery
An exhibition of new works by Moshe Mirsky, born in 1952 in kibbutz Ein-Harod, will open on Thursday, February 11th at Dvir Gallery, Nitzana Street 11 at 20:00. In Mirsky’s works the Israeli existence/experience (The Kibbutz) dominates. The exhibition will close on March 13th. Opening hours: Tues-Thurs: 10-13 and 17-19 / Fri-Sat: 10-13 … Read entire article »
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Exhibition of fire marks
Again on Ha’aetz.com there is a very interesting story [LINK] about so called fire marks from Israel. I was quite intrigued by this story. These fire (insurance) marks were the sign that insurance was payed for the specific building and in the British Mandate period quite common. Until February 25 the fire marks are on display at the HerzLilienblum Museum in Tel Aviv, next to fire fighting equipment from the early days of the state. Nice! … Read entire article »
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Can’t you see I’m walking on air?
Thursday, December 24th at 20:00 will be the official opening of the exhibition: “Can’t you see I’m walking on air” in the Chelouche Gallery (Chissin Street no. 5). The group exhibition is within a year to Gideon Gechtman‘s demise (November 27th/2008) and is curated by Nira Itzhaki. Artists who will take part are: Ori Drummer, Gideon Gechtman , Ben Hagari, Erez Israeli, Miki Kratsman, Hila Luli Lin, Motti Mizrachi, Mira Segal and Gal Weinstein. The exhibition is a gesture to Gideon Gechtman’s (born in 1942 in Alexandria, Egypt ) unique artistic language, and his influences as it finds its expression in the works of the exhibiting artists through myths of death, memory and commemoration. Gideon Gechtman has been Chelouche Gallery‘s artist over twenty years and is one of the pillars of Israeli … Read entire article »
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Volker Marz in the Chelouche Gallery
From October 29th (opening at 20:00) the Chelouche Gallery (5, Hissin Street) will show a site-specific installation: Kafka in Paradise by Volker Marz. For information: 03-528.9713 … Read entire article »
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An other Bauhaus building sold
For the second time this month, a historic Bauhaus-building (1936) was sold to a group of investors. The building (560 square meters) on Dizingoff Street, near Frishmanstreet, was sold for NIS 21 million ($7 million). After the preservation and reconstruction works, the building will get three (!) more floors. The building will have, at the end, 24 apartments, each measures 55 square meters and two penthouses (sales-offers at this moment: $321.000 for an apartment). The two penthouse will be sold for nearly $2 million. The restoration architect will be Nitza Szmuk, who studied restauration in Florence. She fought for years, within-and outside the Municipality of Tel Aviv, for the Bauhaus buildings of Tel Aviv. She wrote a fantastic, historic book about the Bauhaus-buildings ( Hebrew and English/French): Dwellings on the Dunes and … Read entire article »
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Green Landscapes by Eliora Schwartz-Steimatzky
A new beautiful, romantic exhibition: Green Landscapes, made by Eliora Schwartz-Steimatzky, will open on September the 16th at the Givataim Theatre. (closing date: October the 9th). Eliora was born in Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem. She grew up in Tel Aviv. At the age of 17, she started to study (1965 ) at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. After the army, she moved to New-York and worked for the art-publisher Harry N. Abrams. She continued her education in painting and sculpture at the League of New-York (1978 ). In the 1980s, she returned to Israel. Eliora Schwartz-Steimatzky returns the viewer to the mythical landscape paintings of Israeli artists of the 1950s and 1960s….works yearning to the Mediterranean scenery. The exhibition is curated by Doron Polak. … Read entire article »
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