Re-Thinking
dal 11/4/2002 al 26/5/2002
Segnalato da
11/4/2002
Re-Thinking
Ifa-gallery, Stuttgart
In Israel the questions of national identity, religion and history form the focus of the country's young artists' work. And it is not only the violent conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that is at the start of their many-facetted search, but also inner-Israeli conflicts between Arabs and Jews, liberal and orthodox Jews, and the coming to terms with the Shoah.
The Artists
Eyal Ben-Dov
Judith Guetta
Joel Kantor
Adi Nes
Hally Pancer
Guy Raz
In Israel the questions of national identity, religion and history form the focus of the country's
young artists' work. And it is not only the violent conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that is
at the start of their many-facetted search, but also inner-Israeli conflicts between Arabs and Jews,
liberal and orthodox Jews, and the coming to terms with the Shoah. Thus, Joel Kantor's video
portrait of an old cobbler, a survivor of the Holocaust, shows how this man still carries the
traumatic experience of the concentration camp in his eyes and gestures, even if he does not say
it in so many words.
Photography and video art are media with which one can
respond quickly to current political events, documenting
and interpreting them. Guy Raz's conceptual series of
photographs showing street tunnels leading from one
place to an other: from an Israeli place to an Arabic place
and from an Israeli place to a settlement. Cause of the
Israeli and Palestinian conflict Israel is building streets and
tunnels to avoid Arabic territory. Hally Pancer's almost
classical black-and-white landscapes (Golan Heights) and
sensitive portraits of Arab Israelis, we are presenting,
brought her wide international recognition. Adi Nes have
created portraits dealing ironically with the machismo of
Israeli soldiers and Eyal Bend-Dov at least is presenting a
sensitive black-and white series of the participants of the
Shantipi 2000-Tribal Festival. Judith Guetta works
symbolize the encounter between East and West. She
works with large computer-manipulated ornamental photo
prints. Their individual »decorative elements« are
composed of minarets, heads, or weapons so that titles
like »Flowers« or »Woman-Tapestry« appear rather
cynical.
According the exhibition ifa will publish a catalogue with
an essay by Yael Katz Ben Shalom and a preface by
Beate Eckstein.
Image: Eyal Ben-Dov: Shantipi 2000 - Tribal Festival
Curator
Yael Katz, Tel Aviv
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