Michael Kovner - Observations

30 Years of Observing and Painting Landscape

Opening: Saturday, 13.03.2010. Closing: Saturday, 01.05.2010

Curator: Ilan Wisgan

In this current exhibition, Michael Kovner reveals one of the most important aspects in his work – landscape painting. The body of works binds an assortment of landscape investigations that have characterized the artist since the beginning of the eighties. The views of the land, from north to south, are treated on the canvases and sketches in a way that is both loving and critical, scientific and romantic. Kovner is one of few from his generation who doesn’t turn his back on to the Israeli landscape: he sends a straight and sober gaze to it, follows its every move, exploring the roots of its creation. The Negev, the Jordan and Jezreel Valley, the Tabor, are all attached to biblical stories as well as being foundation stones of the Zionist narrative. Kovner walks through them alone, a bundle of paints and paper swung over his shoulder, trying to understand their magic and his/our belonging to them... (Ilan Wisgan)

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog.

Micha Simhon

Makam – The Jewish Musicians of the Classical Arab Music

Opening: Saturday, 13.03.2010. Closing: Saturday, 01.05.2010

Curator: Tali Tamir

Makam – a word in Arabic meaning a musical scale or a site – is the name chosen for photographer Micha Simhon's homage to a group of musicians and performers in their seventies and eighties, who dedicated their life and career to a musical style silenced in the Israeli context: classical Arab music. Formerly, they used to play in the Israel Broadcasting Authority's Arab Orchestra (1951-1994), which enabled them to retain musical traditions imported from their countries of origin, mainly Iraq and Egypt… (Tali Tamir)

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog.

Reip Chopin

Material Landscape

Opening: Saturday, 13.03.2010. Closing: Saturday, 01.05.2010

Third Exhibition in the 16th Nidbach series

Curator: Einat Leader

The works of the jeweler Riep Chopin create a sensitive and beautiful ideologically and historically charged world. The jewelry displayed relates to the historical and cultural continuum of jewelry making but simultaneously raises broad questions concerning the existence of a material homeland or exile... (Einat Leader)

Events during the exhibition

Opening: Saturday, 13.03.2010. Closing: Saturday, 01.05.2010

Tue., 23.3.10 at 19:00pm – Gallery talk with the artist, Ariel Hirschfield and Zvika Lachman

Wed., 21.4.10 at 18:00pm – 'Fathers and Sons Dialogue' seminar, in cooperation with the Society for Jewish Art.
Participating: Ariel Hirschfeld, Tali Tamir, Muki Zur and Ilan Wisgan.

Sat., April 17, 11:30am – Gallery Talk with the artist, the curator, Eyal Sagui Bizawe – Egyptian culture and cinema researcher, Hebrew University, and Dafna Dori – Singer and Iraqi music researcher.
Sat., April 17, 12:30pm – Musical Matinée in Micha Simhon's exhibition, with Felix Mizrahi – Violin, Albert Elias – Ney (bamboo flute), Elias Shasha – Oud, and Shimon Agasi – Darbouka (Goblet drum).

Sat., 24.4.10 at 12:00pm – Gallery talk with the artist and curator.

*All meetings will be held in Hebrew