Avner Katz " Mahsom Erez " At Julie M. Gallery from 22 November till 20 December, 2002, 10 Glikson st. Tel Aviv.
This is a beautiful exhibitin, the works 160cm x 130cm, 12 works, black color ply wood, on the wood Avner scrached and dig like an archeologist and recovered the red brown wood, the efect is like wood block prints.
You should go quickly to the gallery because to me it is the best exhibition I've seen in a long time.
Menahem Mizrahi at Gordon Art Gallery, 95 Ben Yehuda st. Tel Aviv, from October 18, 2002.
This is Menahem's third exhibition at this gallery, a very good realist painter, Tel Aviv urban scenes, usually empty from people. Two years ago Menahem did an exhibition at my Virtual Gallery, you can still view it at: http://erez.net/virtual.html .
Tami Amit, New Photos at Rosenfeld Gallery, 147 Disengof st. Tel Aviv.
You can see the sources of Tamy's photos at David lynch's movies or the movie scenes of Sydney Sherman, the colors are cold but the photos gives the viewer an impression of erotic crime scenes.
Ronny Setter, " Dream Weaver ", Mabat Gallery, Gordon st. 31, Tel Aviv, from 31 May, 2002.
Ronny Setter exhibit regularely at Mabat Gallery, on July 3 she also exhibit her works with eight Israeli artists at Thompson's Art Gallery Marlybone, London, England, starting from July 3 2002. The exhibition is in cooperation with Mabat Gallery, Israel.
Ronny Setter exhibited at my Virtual Gallery from 17 March 2001, you can still view her exhibition at the gallery.
Zeev Ben - Dor, Gallery Nelly Aman, Gordon 26, Tel Aviv, 21 June - 6 July, 2002.
This is Zeev's first exhibition in Tel Aviv, large oil drawings and paintings on boards.
A new exhibition of Yachin Kochba " Red Line ", opens this week at The Kibbutz Art Gallery, May 16 till May 26, 25 Dov Hoz street, Tel Aviv.
Yahin is a friend and a painter, this is his first exhibition in Tel Aviv, later I plan to do a show of his works at my Virtual Gallery, congratulations Yahin.
Joint exhibition of Edith Godik and Ernesto Levy, March 2001, " Beyond a Black Wall ", The Israeli Museum of photography at Tel Hai Industrial Park, Tel Hai, Israel, From March, 2001.
For many years now, the work of Edith Godik and Ernesto levy has been an exceptional, almost underground phenomenon in the local art scene. Their appartement, which is located in the heart of tel Aviv, is like a secluded island that obeys rules of a game that does not belong here, and produces concepts and forms which seem to have been from a deferent world. While local art, on the whole, relates to or deals with concrete, material, and even political things, the art of Edith and Ernesto grapples with an attempt to express universal and existential spiritual values which do not depend on a particular place or defined time. ( from the exhibition's catalog designed by Michel Opatovski. The curator is Avraham Eilat , these lines were taken from the article by Avraham Eilat ).
The Museum is located at a remote northern part of Israel near the Lebanese border, I hope people wont bother the distance and shall visit this interesting show.
" Chanan De Lange - Yaacov Kaufman, Installation Design", Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel, from 23 September 2000.
The exhibition , " Chanan de Langa - Yaacov Kaufman, Installation Design" is currently on display at the Haifa Museum of Art. The exhibition is characterized by its high standards of clean lines and esthetic concept which fills the viewer with cheer delight. There is one joint work on display by the two designers that as Nissim Tal, Director General tells us in the catalog foreword, has generated a special and unique-design language resulting from a fruitful dialogue between them. The other works are individual creations two of each are presented on this site. ( The text - Dr. Ariela Erez ).
Yaacov Kaufman, " Bonzai tree" .
Hanan De Langa, " Post Library, Open Bench ".
Yaacov Kaufman, " The Critics ".
Chanan De Langa, " Dangling Library, Backing ".
Dvir Gallery, 4 Nahoum st. Tel Aviv, Group exhibition, 8 July - 26 August, 2000.
A new group exhibition just opened at the Dvir Gallery, This is an uptodate gallery that have a strict contemporary line, the owner, the editor of the publication " Hameorer ", which deals with the contemporary literary scene, in Israel and abroad.
The participants: Sharon Bareket, 3 new photos. Noa Zait, 1 photo and some large size lighted transparencies. Ohad Meromi, Installation ( see photo ), iron, perspex, asbestos and neon, drawings and a photo. Adam Rabinowich 2 new paintings and Gil Shani 2 new paintings
Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel, " Two Trees One House ", Edith Godik and Ernesto Levi, October 26 till November 30.
Edith Godik and Ernesto Levi, two artists living and working together, large scale works, digital prints, black and white and color, looks like paintings, it's a fascinating dialogue, Godik using collages with symbolic images taken from ancient cultures, Levi brings photographic images from "The Tree of Life ".
Both artists exhibiting and working in Amsterdam and Argentina. Both artist are little known in Israel because of the poor local scene, a lot of artists, not a lot of collectors, no art critics, in the local scene nobody has the guts to show new things, new art, showing and writing only on known and established artists and art.
This exhibition should be seen and appreciated, The poster by Tartakover.
Sigal Avni, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv,95 Ben Yehuda st. from 29 October, 1999.
Tova Osman Gallery, 100 Ben Yehuda st. Tel Aviv, from 30 October to 20 November, 1999.
A group exhibition, three artists, Boris Laker, Hana Nave'h, Chen Shapira.
The Israeli pavilion at the Venice Biennale, starts at 9 June, 1999, Venice, Italy.
" Apropo Rafi ", Juli M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, 14 May - 5 May, 1999.
" Achshav - Now ", Bineth Gallery, Tel, Tel Aviv, 7 May - 4 June, 1999.
Dorit Feldman, Juli M. Gallery The exhibition ended at the 8 May, 1999.
On Saturday the exhibition in rememrance Arie Sabinski's mother who passed away recently, opened at the Golda Center for the Arts.
Yehuda Porbuchrai at Julie M. Gallery, 7 Glikson st. tel: 03-525 3389, fax: 03-629 5473, http://www.interart.co.il/juliem, Mars 3 - April 9, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Two years after Porbuchrai's extensive exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the artist deals with " light ", the Israeli direct, too bright, almost white light that blurs the objects.
Yehuda or Yuda as his friends call him had a medical eye treatment during which a substance was injected to his retina and his entire vision was covered with yellow light.
The paintings deal with cosmic, spiritual and mystical light. ( This is an exert from the gallery's Ms Adi Shapira-Cabili's press release ).
To me his paintings look like apocalyptic, surrealistic landscapes, acid and sulfuric rain that covers the earth, due December 31, 23:59, 1999.
This week, Mars 05, Tel Aviv Museum published an article in " Iton Haiir ", an answer to last week article on the museum, saying:
1. Can an active artist be an art critic of a newspaper? Should he criticize his own art?
2. How can a young artist that just came out of the art school, does not have the perspective yet, judge famous artists.
3. A list of exhibitions of the museum that shows the museum exhibited several young and established artists.
I agree with the museum but this is the standard system in Israel, Rafi Lavi, the artist, was the established curator of the newspaper, his articles were done in the known fascist way, the young artist follows his steps.
" Studio " the Israeli Art magazine, 100's issue.
It's a celebration, this Art magazine very elitist, conceptual art, new French philosophy articles, very difficult to understand, therefore with a limited audience of readers and therefore cannot support it self, you can compare it's contents with the New York magazine "Art Forum", here the comparison ends, "Art Forum"'s Art is the commercial art in America, this is the Art the museums and the collectors buy.
Sara Breitberg, the magazine editor, used to be The Tel Aviv Museum' curator, I remember an article by her, it was at the peak of the conceptual season in Israel, she said ( after Duchamp ) that being an Art curator is being an Artist, from this declaration on she needed no artists, she was self sufficient, the Curator and the Artist. That was the time that I lost all my interest in her and her projects.
Adam Baruch, the famous and most interesting curator at that time, agreed, " she is an Artist ", now he also doesn't need Artists, they were two self sufficient, Adam Baruch later left the scene to become an economic magazine editor and deals with money.
There is a young artist named Shmueli, he is "Iton Haiir"'s curator, he is a young man, not 30 years old, just finished his Art studies, he is against everybody, nothing's good enough for him, museums old and established artists, only one museum is good, The Herzelia Museum, in every article he mentions this, this week we came to know the reason, The Herzelia Museum does his exhibition. This is a fascist way to behave, he could be a Likud party honorary member.
Ross Blackner at "July - m" Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Ross Blackner, known New York Artist, emerged first at the East Village scene. At the beginning of the 80's, a new gallery, "Pat Ahearn" opened, it was a "Soho" kind of gallery, spacious, white with "Soho" kind of Art, big slick canvases, not the East Village kind of thing at that time, Ross Blackner was one of it's new artists, his art, big canvases with patterns, arabesque kind of paintings, later the gallery with it's artists moved to the Soho, Blackner moved forward to the peak, his retrospective at the Guggenheim ( Uptown ) Museum.
Blackner continues with his pattern Art, now a kind of Biology, alive like patterns.
Four new exhibitions at the Museum Ramat Gan for Israeli Art, from January 16, 1999
Joseph Hachmey - The Israeli Phoenix, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, November 1998 -
Eli Avrahami at "The Studio" Art Gallery, Raanana, Sep 12 till Sep 28.
Marek Cecula at Periscope Gallery, Ben Yehuda st, till the end of September, 98.
Five new Art exhibitions opened on September 9, 1998, at the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art.
"More Light", Ernesto Levi at Ephrat Gallery, 21 Gordon st, 11june - 30june, 98, Tel Aviv.
Museum Ramat Gan for Israeli Art, Opening 14th May, till September 03, 1998
Four exhibitions, three photography exhibitions by the artists Judith Gueta, Sigal Avni and Tami Amit, Curated by Meir Ahronson, the Museum's director. One group exhibition, "Pulp Fiction",that deals with paper, curated by Ariela Erez, the artists: Ronit Agassi, Ziggi Ben-Heim, Arie Berkowitz, Ilana David-Sdomi, Zvi Tulkovski, Maya Cohen Levy, Efraim Carmel and Ziva Cronzon.
At Israel's 50's birthday Bat Sheba ballet Group was censored by the religious parties because one of the dancers appeared in underwear. At her 50's Israel looks more and more like Iran.
In "Hamumhe" alternative space in Neve Zedek, Tel Aviv there is a show: "Nature's Factory, Winter 2046, 1998". These are collaboration works by the artists Benny Efrat and Ronny Someck.
Israel Museum, "Photography now" exhibition.
The seventies in the Israeli Art:
Israeli Art in the 70's was legging about 20 years from the international scene, after the "Minimalism" in USA and "Arte Povera" in Italy. All the artists and the art works were accepted by the museums, critics and the local galleries on the spot and by this acceptance the artists lost their freedom. Today we still see these art works and artists in all the museums and galleries. What I didn't see in this show is the art works of the group "The third eye or Haain Hashlishit". This is a great triumph for this historic avant-garde group, they were not understood then the same as now, they are still Underground.
Michail Grobman at Herzelia Museum.March -May 1998, PICTURE=SYMBOL=CONCEPT.