The Jerusalem Artists House invites you to enjoy a variety of events and new exhibitions.
Muli Ben Sasson: To Everything There Is a Season, A Time to Every Purpose
Opening: Saturday, 19.05.2012. Closing: Saturday, 07.07.2012
Curator: Emily D. Bilski
This exhibition presents twenty new works constructed from precision-cut stainless steel and aluminum, which straddle the border between sculpture and design and constitute a philosophical meditation on the nature of time. How do we conceptualize time? How can the human experience of time - its measurement, calculation, and duration - be visualized? Ben Sasson explores these issues with images that suggest clock parts, animals, children's toys, scientific instruments, and astronomical constellations. These forms evolve from work to work within the series according to an internal grammar: the streamlined body and wings of a phoenix are transformed into the hands of a clock, and then into the arms of a drafting compass. Experienced time is evoked through the implied movement of a bird in flight, a rolling wheel, or a swinging pendulum. As the series unfolds, the viewer senses the gap between the present, the past, and the future, and also experiences the tension between the linear and the cyclical aspects of time.
Muli Ben Sasson is the head of the Department of Ceramic and Glass Design at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.
Additional Opening: Tuesday 22.5.12 at 19:00 pm
Gallery talk: Thursday 5.7.12 at 18:00 pm
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue and will travel to the Design Centrum Kielce, Poland, in October 2012
Liat Livni and Amir Tomashov: Exposed Space
Opening: Saturday, 19.05.2012. Closing: Saturday, 07.07.2012
Curator: Shirley Meshulam
Liat Livni and Amir Tomashov, individually and in the discourse between them, suggest a unique understanding of what is metaphorically call "exposed space". "Exposed space" refers to the artists' view points and perceptions towards urban spaces, development processes, using the material's primal characteristics and the meanings attributed to them. Tomashov refers to issues in art through the field of architecture, whereas Livni refers to these issues from the viewpoint of plastic arts. Together they arouse our thoughts on the connections between art, architecture, theory and aesthetics.
Gallery Talk - Sat. 30.6.12 at 12 pm
Uri Shapira: The Light Seeker
Opening: Saturday, 19.05.2012. Closing: Saturday, 07.07.2012
Curator: Eran Ehrlich
Uri Shapira's exhibition is a refined purification of a world where opposites such as real and virtual, nature and culture, fact and image, completely lose context. By mixing mediums, work techniques and knowledge taken from disciplines ranging from chemistry to contemporary photographic techniques, Shapira destroys trivial certainties of time, space and representation and undermines our understanding of appearances. At first glance, the viewer might see it as a representation-documentation of an actual space or time, though in practice, what he sees isn't a representation but the object itself. Even though his work does not include manipulative Photoshop techniques, the reality seen exists only in the image itself.
On the other hand, behind the image's uniqueness hides a dimension of time converted into physical space which never really existed as seen in the image, as if a full length film was compressed into one frame. This is a world in which the only certainty is that it is visual, and as such, leaves a mark upon us and invites the experience to be our guide.
Gallery Talk - Sat. 9.6.12 at 12:00
Inbar Ben Ishay: 5th Exhibition in the 17th Nidbach series: Raspberry
Opening: Saturday, 19.05.2012. Closing: Saturday, 07.07.2012
Curator: Gabi Kricheli
As a last act of service, Inbar Ben Ishay extracts images from objects which have already been gathered for storage in a warehouse. She picks a flower from an old blanket, extracts a piece of jewelry from the barbecue's charcoal and with a branch stabs the heart of a sculpted bird with silent viciousness.
Delicate drawings recede into the wall, the result of attentiveness and strenuous action, side by side with charcoal and clay reliefs. "Common" and used materials receive the status of "expensive" and of rare metals. Images of disasters which occurred in these spaces, such as signs holding bad news - emerge from the ruins.
On the border of a pecan tree field with her back to her parent's home, locked in a family storage room, Ben Ishay wanders distractedly over the stump of a family tree every time she passes from room to room. Action after action, Ben Ishay creates a circle of images, an indication of private sadness in the collective space of sorrow.
Gallery Talk - Sat. 2.6.12 at 12:00
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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