Real Moment

Adi Bezalel's works might appear to be a collection of coincidental photographs: body parts, landscapes, interiors, an airplane and various objects. Indeed, the series is not based on a specific theme but is rather an assembly of memories, comprised of an array of personal images with an inner connection speaking in Bezalel's personal language to the same external world.
The photographs enhance our ability to see the reality beyond the shutter, like exposure to a bright, expanding light – a thin ray of light shining from under a closed door in a dark room.
Like waves, the works rise, conceal and retreat to the "serenity" before, uniting the external reality with the internal being, merging sleep and dream with reality and awakening.
The plane and the sleeping girl travel from one end to the other both physically (from one end of the world to another) and metaphysically – moving between different states of awareness, though remaining in both at the same time. With one swift motion the plane takes us through the blue sky to different realms in the twilight zone, between the real and the fantastic, between the ability to see and discern and the ability to create and believe. The crucifix embedded on the plane's red tail takes us over a poppy field. Is it a reflection, a translocation or a creation? This crusade in space symbolizes the various signs and ways of reading the reality of our surroundings: to look up or down, to focus on the here-and-now, on the close-at-hand or the distant, to look beyond the horizon, beyond the visible, into the inconceivable. The slope's curves cry out to stop and dream. To walk through the hidden passages into what is beyond our comprehension; to a different universe that allows us moments of grace.
Thus, a single point in time and space becomes a story embodied in a framed photograph: a moon in a dark sky above a horizon less line of landscape, a pale light from a lamp shining on a papered wall, a necklace hovering over an open neckline.
It is a journey from image to image, from concrete scenes to scenes of an imagined reality. They are a collection of few moments out of innumerable ones; moments which the eye can see but cannot "understand" thus it pauses to consider for a moment. The photography captures the moment and allows us to study the same moments again and again, processing the visual experience, poetically phrasing it into an image that steps beyond the borders of perpetuation of the moment – transforming it into immortality.

Israel Rabinovitz

1978 Born in Israel
Co- Manager of Alfred Gallery, Co-operative art gallery, Tel Aviv
1999- 2001 Studied in Studio Art, Avni Institute
2001- 2005 B.Ed, Studio Art and Arts Education, “Midrasha” School of Art, Beit Berl College
2008- today M.a., Faculty Interdisciplinary Arts Program, Tel Aviv University

Solo Exhibitions:
2006 “Unused Power” photograph's, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 “Insight Out” photograph's, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 Photographic exhibition, The Curriculum center Beit Berl College
2009 “E Sheket”, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 “Beautiful Death”, Zaritzky Atists House Tel Aviv - Beit Haomanim, Tel Aviv, Israel

Group Exhibitions:
2005 “July”, Graduates Art Exhibition, Hamidrasha, Art School, Israel
2006 Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hay, Israel
2006 “You Are Here,” Group Exhibition of Gallery’s Artists, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 “Alfred South”, Tel Aviv Artists exhibit in Be’er Sheva, Kay College, Be’er Sheva, Israel
2008 “Infinity”, The House of Opera, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 “Glass House”, Visual Discussions on Video Art, Tungsten Club, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 “MoBY Hosting”, Bat Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam, Israel
2008 “Secret Exhibition 3”, Bet Mani, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 “Broken Telephone,” Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Tel Aviv Centennial Art Exhibit, Rothschild St., Tel Aviv
2009 "Where the Fashion is Art", Rawart Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 “Smoking”, Darling Restaurant, Tel Aviv,
2009 “Fresh Paint 2”, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 “Secret Exhibition 4”, Bet Mani, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 “Alfred and Co.”, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 “Forgive Me Father for I Have Sinned”, Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv, Israel 2010 Saloona, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 “Belong/ Doesn’t Belong”, Women’s Court, Kastiel House, Tel Aviv, Israel

Publications:
2010 “JTimes”
2010 “BVD” Architecteture Magazine