Paper is probably the most common element that connects all four exhibitions at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art winter exhibition.
The exhibition begins with a giant paper collage by Rotem Amizur at the entrance of the museum, followed by Aviva Uri’s drawings on paper, Ivan Schwebel’s colorful journals (and oil paintings), and the group exhibition “On Point” printed on paper. ”. video history.
A little jumbled, but it works.
“They are all contemporary, but they also have a historical dimension,” said lead curator Aya Rourier.
The Winter Exhibition opens on January 14th and closes at the Herzliya Museum on May 20th. This time Lurie invited a curator who is also an artist and collector.
Amizur, a young artist celebrating her first solo exhibition at a museum, was curated by fellow artist Iddo Markus. The two have been part of Haifa’s artist collective for the past decade. Inspired by a chance encounter with a reproduction of a large mural by Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, Amisur created a series of large paper-based collages with a quilt-like feel, Flatland.
An undated portrait of David Hendler (left), Aviva Uri and Joshua Neustein. (Credit: Gabriel Talphir Archive, Information Center for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem)
Past the work of Amisur is the entrance to the museum’s gallery, where “La Forza del Destino” is exhibited. This is an exhibition of Aviva his Uli works curated by collector Bennokharev based on his decades-long collection of contemporary Israeli artists.
The Aviva Uri exhibit features two dialogues. Collectors and artists have become close friends over many years of collaboration. Another is a dialogue between Uri and her artist girlfriend David Hendler, Uri’s former teacher who later became her beloved partner.
“Benno had dozens of Uli’s works,” says Leurier, referring to which works to include in the exhibition, which also includes pieces from his collection of love notes and sketches Hendler wrote for Uli. was difficult for Benno to choose.
During his lifetime, Uli was famous especially as an artist’s artist. Hendler’s star didn’t shine as brightly, but the two artists shared a deep love and life.
The main group exhibition at the museum is called “On Point,” pointing to the tip of the pencil. Curated by artist Ben Hagari, the Independent, part of the collection of the Leroy Nieman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University School of the Arts, as well as his own work, through his artists and others. Exploring the history of video. The university where Hagari used to teach.
On Point, an exhibition curated by Ben Hagari, an artist exploring the history of moving images, in a group exhibition at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art until May 20, 2023 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
A total of 25 artists, including Jasper Johns, William Kentridge, Aki Sasamoto, and Terry Winters, are participating. An Israeli artist who taught at Columbia University while earning a master’s degree and is currently teaching at Yale University.・Hagari explores the history of video. Before the camera was invented.
He includes etching, early optical devices, moving books, peepholes, shadows and silhouettes, cinema, early experiments in animation and video work exploring the painting of the human hand, the development of live action and animation (Edison’s early including animation works). lab staff.
From the exhibition On Point, curated by artist Ben Hagari, who explores the history of moving images in a group exhibition at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art until May 20, 2023. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
“This show shines a light on the interplay between moving images and paper,” Hagari said. “Imagination is the way to draw the line and create something out of it.”
The fourth exhibit is ‘FSP Freestanding Paintings’, featuring dozens of paintings, drawings, prints and journals by US-born Ivan Schwebel.
The connection to the rest of the exhibit is through the impressive paper diary Schwebel kept, colorful and full of his sketches and artistry and scribbled notes.
Schwebel’s artwork also has a cinematic dimension, highlighting his childhood in America and the culture of Hollywood, comics and superheroes in which he grew up.
Artist Ivan Schwebel, whose work is currently on display at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, is a proponent of public art, and his work is on permanent display at Tel Aviv’s Haihar Khatarbat. (Courtesy of Talmoryair/Wikipedia)
Born in West Virginia, Schwebel moved to the Bronx as a child, enlisted in the U.S. Army, and served in Japan during the Korean War. He studied art history at New York University and continued his journey, eventually settling in the Ein He Kerem district of Jerusalem in 1963. His fellow artists and poets lived there, where he married and settled with an Israelite.
Schwebel may have spent most of his adult life in Israel, but his work has always had American, Jewish, and Hollywood images mixed into it. At first he was embraced by the Israeli art world, but Israeli artists of his generation leaned toward “abstraction and minimalism, and he leaned toward art history and Jewish history and the Bible.” But it was gradually left behind because of its emphasis on Jewish and Holocaust imagery,” Lurie said.
Four exhibitions offer a deeper glimpse into the art and spirit of the participating artists and curators, providing an overview of Israeli contemporary art while making subtle connections between materials and ideas.
