Tsibi Gava
dal 18/1/2005 al 19/2/2005
Segnalato da
18/1/2005
Tsibi Gava
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
From the collaboration and the ongoing conversation between Shapiro and Geva comes the book titled, like one of its poems, After – also the title of Geva's current exhibition. Bringing together Geva's paintings and Shapiro's poems this book holds a dialogue between poetry and art, original language and its translation, one part of the world and another
From the collaboration and the ongoing conversation between Shapiro and Geva comes the book titled, like one of its poems, After – also the title of Geva's current exhibition. Bringing together Geva's paintings and Shapiro's poems – in English and in the Hebrew translation by the poet Zali Gurevitch – this book holds a dialogue between poetry and art, original language and its translation, one part of the world and another.
Tsibi Geva was born in Kibbutz Ein Shemer in 1951, and lives and works in Tel Aviv. Since 1979 he has had numerous one-person shows, among them exhibitions at the Kibbutz Art Gallery in Tel Aviv; July M. Gallery, Tel Aviv; the ICA, Boston; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Annina Nosei Gallery, New York; Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida; Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba; Achschav.now Contemporary Art Gallery, Berlin, and many more. In 1985 he represented Israel at the 18th Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil, and his works have been shown in many group exhibitions around the world. Among Geva's recent exhibitions were the site-specific project "Lattice" at Hagar Gallery, Jaffa, accompanied by a video made in collaboration with Miki Kratsman and Boaz Arad, and "Master Plan" at the Haifa Museum of Art, accompanied by an artist-book relating his work to his father's, the architect Ya’acov (Cuba) Geber. Geva teaches at the Beit Berl College School of Art, and is a senior lecturer at Haifa University, where he will also head the MFA program in art since 2005. He has received many awards and grants, including The Jaffin Award from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, The Kolliner Prize for Young Artist and the Sandberg Prize from The Israel Museum, the Israeli Science and Arts Minister's Prize for Visual Arts, and the Isracard Prize and the Eva and Mendel Pondick Prize from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
David Shapiro was born in l947 in Newark, New Jersey, where his grandfather, the legendary cantor Berele Chagy, sang. Shapiro was nominated for the National Book Award at the age of 24, and has written over twenty volumes of poetry (Lateness, To an Idea, House [Blown Apart], After a Lost Original, A Burning Interior and others), translation, and art criticism, including books on Jasper Johns, Piet Mondrian, Jim Dine, and John Ashbery. His books and writings have appeared in many translations and anthologies. He has taught at various universities, such as Princeton, Bard, and Brooklyn and he is tenured as an art historian at William Paterson University, New Jersey, and serves at The Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York as part of the visiting faculty. Shapiro received numerous awards, including the Triennial Award for experimental poetry from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, grants from the NEA and The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts.
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