The Jerusalem Artists House invites you to enjoy a variety of events and new exhibitions throughout January and February 2010.
"Tuesdays at the Artists' House"
A series of meetings about art, interpretation and points-of-view (in Hebrew)
Opening: Saturday, 23.01.2010. Closing: Tuesday, 23.02.2010
Produced and hosted by Yonatan Amir
Fifth meeting: 26.1.2010 at 19:00 - Dr. Baruch Blich: "The body's passion in art"
Sixth meeting: 23.2.2010 at 19:00 - Etty Abergel: Foreign influences on local and personal creation
Michael Yakhilevich
Bon Voyage
Opening: Sunday, 24.01.2010. Closing: Saturday, 27.02.2010
Supervising curator: Lena Zaidel
Vacant and empty places are revealed in Michael Yakhilevich's new exhibition. Isolated characters - planes, cars, boats - emerge from the void. The images appear to have been carefully filtered and selected and only later situated on the canvas with utmost precision, surrendering the lead role to the charged void... (Lena Zaidel)
Shimrit Yariv
Faces
Opening: Saturday, 23.01.2010. Closing: Saturday, 27.02.2010
Shimrit Yariv uses fashion and art magazines as the starting point for her paintings. Portraits of beautiful young women, symbols of their desirable seductive gaze, as well as portraits of old men with a thoughtful, messianic gaze - a paraphrase on the prophet figure. The portrait traces its roots back to the Roman bust that developed into the depiction of the upper body during the Renaissance and is common to this day... (Irit Carmon Popper)
Orlee Hadari
Star of the Well
Opening: Saturday, 23.01.2010. Closing: Saturday, 27.02.2010
Second exhibition in the 16th Nidbach series
Curator: Chen Sheinberg
In her video art, Orlee Hadari recruits a clown figure to a journey through various suspended artworks. Hadari's clown is a street clown, a loser, exposed to the eyes of the passers by inceasant repeated actions in which he experiences failure time after time. Her choice of the clown comes from investigating borderline human conditions, in which there is physical and mental exersion... (Chen Sheinberg)
Shaul Gadish
Echoing the Abyss
Opening: Saturday, 23.01.2010. Closing: Saturday, 27.02.2010
Curator: Bat Sheva Granit
In his works, Shaul Gadish uses layers of images illustrating his intensive inner emotions to create staged worlds. He works repetitively, as if in an ongoing ritual, obsessively attempting to understand the conflicts of his mature self throughout the eyes of his childlike self, struggling to reveal this conflict to himself and to others...(Bat Sheva Granit)
Rachael Cobert Weiner
Generosity, Splendor and Truth
Opening: Sunday, 24.01.2010. Closing: Saturday, 27.02.2010
Supervising curator: Oded Zaidel
Rachael Cobert Weiner presents monoprints in the colors of purple and sepia from the year 2007 and pencil drawings from 2004-2007.
Drawing is the foundation of most of her work because of its immediacy and directness. Shown here, the portrayals are of interiors and landscape... (Oded Zaidel)
Sunday to Thursday 10:00 to 13:00 and 16:00 to 19:00; Friday 10:00 to 13:00; Saturday 11:00 to 14:00
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