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 The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem is showcasing a contemporary exhibition entitled "100 Years of Dialogue through Art" at the Orangerie Du Senat in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris from the 17th through the 29th of September 2009. The travelling exhibition includes over 100 works from eight Bezalel Academy departments: fine art, visual communications, ceramics & glass, photography, industrial design, jewelry & fashion, animation & video and architecture. Yona Fischer, Israel Prize recipient and chief curator at the Israel Museum for many years, is the curator of the exhibition. The exhibition opening welcomed 250 distinguished visitors, and 1,300 people visited the exhibition in its first two days.
To view the Paris Exhibition Catalogue, click here (In French).
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ART OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS RESIDENCY 2009 OPEN WEEKEND
Saturday July 18th
Dinner and Dancing
Cocktails at 6:30, dinner is served at 7:30 and dancing goes on until midnight.
DJ Vintage will spin oldies from the '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s.
Sunday July 19th
Country Style Brunch 11am - 1pm
Open Studios Day 1 to 5 pm
The artists in residence will open their studios. Open Studios is free.
All events are held at the Omi International Arts Center: dinner and brunch up hill at the main house, the open studios down at the barn.
Directions
To make reservations please contact:
Claudia Cannizzaro
212.206.5660
ccannizzaro@artomi.org
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LIAT LIVNI
Cut in the Landscape Liat Livni / Curator Ora Kraus
The Rehovot Municipal Art Gallery
March-May 2009
In her exhibition, Liat Livni presented a series of monochromatic pieces, which come into being through illustration, pasting and cutting using a utility knife. Their immaculate precision, the meticulous choice of materials and their formative completeness give her pieces an incredibly esthetic and exceptionally beautiful appearance. So much so, that it seems as if a mechanical arm was involved in their creation. The artist refers to the conquest of nature by man, and in order to illustrate this theme she creates an artificial landscape image, within which, in a surrounding of pastoral nature, she "plants" elements taken from an urban environment: A tractor, an antenna, electric poles, a bridge etc. Once in a while a human image appears - which enhances the sensation of nature's grandeur as opposed to man's insignificance. In other pieces, the natural landscapes also feature animals, sometimes depicted only using their outline.
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LIGHTING CROWN HALL
Thursday, June 11th, from nine-ish to midnight
Crown Hall, 3360 South State Street
Public parking in lots D1 and D2 at the southeast corner of 33rd and State, entrance on 33rd.
Jim Tichy and students from IIT, SAIC, Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar, and Bezalel Academy Tel Aviv will present Lighting Crown Hall, turning it into "a massive light box, sending video projections and elaborate time-base lighting sequences through the glass windows." The project is a collaborative venture with the School of the Art Institute and the Mies van der Rohe Society, and is the culmination of Bauhaus Labs' three week summer session "exploring the ideas of visionary artist and educator Laszlo Moholy-Nagy." Learn more.
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 RON GILAD
If you happen to be in Chicago between April 29th and May 9th, please be sure to visit Ron Gilad's solo exhibition at Wright. 1440 W Hubbard Street, Chicago, IL
This installation, Spaces Etc. / An Exercise In Utility includes over eighty new and unique pieces. For those of you who live abroad, Wright is setting up a website dedicated to the show. Ron Gilad's website will be updated with full documentation.
Also, Teca, a new collection of lighting fixtures designed by Ron Gilad for FLOS will be launched during the Salone Del Mobile in Milan this month.
Image Credit: Installation View / Spaces Etc. / Wright Gallery
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 YAEL BARTANA
Be sure to check out Yael Bartana's film, Mary Koszmary (Nightmares), on view at the Jewish Museum through August 27, 2009. Learn more.
Image Credit: Mary Koszmary, 2007, 16mm film transferred to video, 10 min., 50 sec.
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