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 Wine and Cheese Reception with Adi Nes
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Crosby Street Hotel
BY INVITATION ONLY
"Issues of Identity"
Accompanied by his oversized staged color photographs, Adi Nes will discuss themes of Israeli identity, militarism, masculinity, ethnicity, religion and the bible. His photographs reference art history, mythology, the history of photography and well known works of art. Adi Nes' presentation will also include the short film
"Behind the Scenes" which chronicles his life in the world of art and explains his unique style of working.
For more information email rebecca@bezalelfriends.org.
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 Guy Ben-Ari
Here We Aren't, So Quickly
July 15 - September 5, 2010
Thierry Goldberg Projects
5 Rivington Street, New York, NY
Opening: Thursday, July 15, 6-8
Summer Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 11-6
Here we Aren't So Quickly is a three-person exhibition with paintings by Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, Guy Ben-Ari, and Hiroyuki Nakamura. The title of the show, taken from a Jonathan Safran Foer story, points to questions of authenticity and subjectivity explored in the work of all three artists. Whether through figuration or abstraction, each artist plays with the limits of representation in an attempt to knock up against something more real, and perhaps more permanent. The role that images play in relation to subjectivity is a prevalent theme in the work of Guy Ben-Ari. With the immediacy and deceiving simplicity his comic-book style provides, his paintings are constituted by other paintings. In this sense the work is reminiscent of the painting Galerie de Vues de la Rome Moderne by Giovanni Paolo Panini, and yet here the images depict a myriad of other images, not for the purpose of conveying the historical, but so as to inform the interior world of the individual.
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 Dor Guez
The Jewish Museum, Goodkind Media Center
Through September 07, 2010
1109 5th Ave at 92nd St, New York, NY
"The Monayer Family: Three Videos by Dor Guez"
In a series of videos, Dor Guez offers perspectives on ethnic identity, citizenship, and prejudice from three generations of a Christian Arab family. Dor Guez is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and researcher of photography at Tel Aviv University. He holds a BFA from the Department of Photography and Video, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2006), and an MFA from the Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts, Tel Aviv University (2008) (From
Artis).
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Noa Charuvi
HEAT WAVE
Lombard-Freid Projects, 531 W. 26th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
June 17 - July 30, 2010
Heat Wave brings together six fresh voices from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, India and Turkey. Though varied in terms of geography, language and tradition, these international artists are bound generationally and unified by an interest in representing elements of cultural and political specificity through expressions and symbols of the everyday. Using humor, critique, irony and introspection, the work of each artist proposes a distinct strategy for active engagement - whether borrowing from popular culture (Atay, Nugroho) or photojournalism (Charuvi), expanding the language of documentary into the realm of fiction (al Solh) or examining tensions (Abidi) and repositories of national identity (Schindler). New York based, Israeli artist Noa Charuvi paints from photojournalistic images taken in Gaza. Her colorful canvases abstract the demolished buildings ravaged by the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Bedroom (2010) depicts the traces of life in what was once a domestic setting; furniture and belongings are strewn across the interior as the torn walls expose the room as a destroyed landscape. The site-specificity of the source images, in contrast with her process of deconstructing the photographed forms creates a body of work that demands attention and observation.
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Christmas in July
Ariel Schlesinger
Yvon Lambert
Through July 31, 2010
550 West 21st Street, New York, NY
Opening Reception July 1, 6-8 p.m.
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Exhibit Tour with Professor Ezri Tarazi, Head of Bezalel's Master of Design Program
May 16, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
Cooper Hewitt, National-Design Museum
2 East 91st Street, New York, NY
Friends of Bezalel is pleased to announce its first Young Leadership event featuring a personal tour of the Cooper Hewitt exhibit National Design Triennial: Why Design Now?" with Bezalel Professor and Department Head Ezri Tarazi. Professor Tarazi's work is part of the exhibit. Light dinner to follow.
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Friends of Bezalel is proud to partner with Dor Chadash and over 100 other community organizations for the annual New York community-wide Yom Ha'Atzmaut event.
The evening begins with a ceremony to honor Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror, then continues in an all-out celebration of Israel, featuring Israeli reggae stars Hatikva 6, Didi Erez, Guy Wittenberg and DJ Ilan Henig, and a taste of the Israeli "shuk."
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Miki Carmi and Tamy Ben-Tor
Stefan Stux Gallery
Through May 1, 2010
530 West 25th Street, New York, NY
Stefan Stux Gallery, in conjunction with Zach Feuer Gallery and Salon 94, presents Disembodied Archetypes, a two-person exhibition of new performances and videos by Tamy Ben-Tor and new paintings and photographs by Miki Carmi. All of the works in this exhibition are bound by a series of photographs and texts that embody the dialectic of the archetypical and the concrete.
Miki Carmi received his M.F.A. from Columbia University in 2005 and graduated from Bezalel Academy of art and design in Jerusalem in 2003.
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Galia Gur Zeev
April 26th, 2010 12 p.m.- 4 p.m.
Milton J. Weill Art Gallery, 92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
In this one-person exhibition artist Galia Gur Zeev presents two series of photographs exploring family gatherings around the dining table, which join together to form a single show. The series Table consists of a wall piece depicting the diners around the table from a bird's-eye view; the series Seder is an elaboration of the former. In both series the table is nonexistent and the meal did not really take place. In both, the relevant information emerges from the black.
Israeli-born photographer Galia Gur Zeev graduated (BFA) from the Department of Photography, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. For more information regarding this exhibit please call 212.415.5597.
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SHAUL TZEMACH
Slash: Paper Under the Knife
Museum of Arts and Design, 5th Floor Gallery
2 Columbus Circle, New York
October 7, 2009 - April 4, 2010
Shaul Tzemach's papercut Concretion/Conglomeration is on display as part of Slash: Paper under the Knife. The exhibit takes the pulse of the international art world's renewed interest in paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the remarkably diverse use of paper in a range of art forms. The exhibition surveys unusual paper treatments, including works that are burned, torn, cut by lasers, and shredded. A section of the exhibition will focus on artists who modify books to transform them into sculpture, while another will highlight the use of cut paper for film and video animations. Selected artists have been commissioned to create site-specific or site-referential works, and others will be invited to create work onsite in MAD's three artist studios that will subsequently be installed in the exhibition. Shaul Tzemach received both his B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. The artist began exhibiting his work in 2000, and has continued to show at museums and galleries in Israel. This is his first New York showing.
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