2015
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Luigi Coppola
Luigi Coppola’s video On Social Metamorphosis (2012) is founded on the principle that new social concepts require a new language to be heard. The artist collaborated with singers, comedians, and other artists, in formulating a utopian manifesto which they sing as a choir. The manifesto is inspired by blogger Paul Jorion, a journalist who created one of the most influential platforms for discussion of the economic, political, and social climate in Europe today. Following the present economic
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Lea Nikel
On the face of it, a self portrait is an endeavor to attain figurative similarity or reduce the gap between outward appearances and inner characteristics. However, like any other portrait it entails a representational gap between the actual person depicted and that person’s image as portrayed on canvas. Although abstraction deeply undermined the portrait’s traditional representational modes, it seems that abstract painters have never ceased presencing the “creative self” in their works.
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Marco Godoy
Marco Godoy’s Claiming the Echo (2012) offers a transition from the local to the global, serving as a second exposition to the exhibition. It features the Solfónica choir, founded in Madrid during the 15-M protest, which sings in demonstrations. Godoy shifted the choir from the public sphere to an empty theater hall and situated it in the traditional place of the audience, where it sings protest slogans popular in demonstrations of recent years, relating to the economic crisis in Spain
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Omer Krieger and Nir Evron
Rehearsing the Spectacle of Specters, the title of Omer Krieger and Nir Evron’s video installation (2014), are the opening words of a poem by Anadad Eldan (b. 1924), member of Kibbutz Beeri on the Israel-Gaza border. Eldan – the “kibbutz poet,” who wrote texts for kibbutz ceremonies and festivals – is also a renowned, widely published lyrical poet. His poems have a unique sound based on rich and musical ancient Hebrew. The video documents a group of kibbutz members
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Elie Shamir
The exhibition “Preaching to the Choir” consists of video and performance works, but it opens with a lone painting, Elie Shamir’s Lullaby for the Valley. Five young women singing in a choir are depicted in a plowed field, and next to them, a man playing the accordion. Doron Lurie identified a dual tension in this painting, and in the polemic of Eretz-Israeli painting in general, “one arising between idealistic-utopist description and mimetic-realistic description; and another
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Jacob Alkow
A group view from the Jacob Alkow collection k1p3 architects Jacob Alkow Collection (1902-1999) Jacob Alkow lived an intriguing life full of upheavals, and art played a prominent role in it. The international eclectic collection is comprised of 43 works of plastic art in a variety of styles and techniques, most from the 20th century, with a minority of works from the 19th century and even earlier. A strong affinity for Judaism is evident from the collection – most of the
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