israeli art market issue# 2 between a dream and reality

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June 2014 #2

CONTEMPORARY ART / EMERGING ARTISTS & PHOTOGRAPHERS / SOLO EXHIBITION / GROUP EXHIBITION / ARTEFFECT / JUDAICA

ODED FEINGERSH SPECIAL SOLO EXHIBITION

Between A Dream And Reality

GROUP EXHIBITION

Doron Azouri´s Blog

arteffect

Young Artist׳s Exhibition


Editor & Founder : Dafna NavarroDafna was born in Jerusalem in 1975 and lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is a known figure in the Israeli art world as a lecturer, curator and appraiser of art and collectibles.Dafna has lectured at academies of visual art and design with years of experience working in advertising and media. Her education started at Technion University studying interior design followed by general design studies with the artist Ilana Goor. She later obtained a diploma in curatorial studies and art appraisals. In the beginning of her career she worked as a graphic designer in various multimedia companies such as Ness Technologies, Casdim International Systems, along with several major advertising agencies in Israel. In 1998 she began teaching at the Avni Institute of Art and as a lecturer in visual communication at Betzalel Academy of Art and at Magen the Religious College of Art and Design. Dafna has authored a number of books for Israeli academic institutes including John Bryce College. She also developed course curriculum and content in a number of fields including photography, internet, media and graphic design. She was later involved in the marketing of these courses to various technology companies.

Dafna Navarro is the founder of the following companies:

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The company has three business lines which include: http://israeliartmarket.com which showcases the top Israeli artists in photography, contemporary art and Judaica;

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Sell My ArtThe company specializes in the sale of Israeli art to interior designers, architectural firms and private individuals in Israel.http://sellmyart.co.il

Show My WorkA website showcasing over 250 artists, photographers and designers from various disciplines. The site also promotes exhibitions of art and design.

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Art Design CenterA website dedicated to promoting Israeli art and design schools which includes blogs on art, photography and design.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

4/ Solo Exhibition Oded Feingersh Israeli Landscapes13/ Solo Exhibition Oded Feingersh The Intimacy Of The Studio22/ Young Artists Andrey Povarov- Photography28/ Young Artists Danielle Grinfeld- Art 32/ ArtEffect The Serbian Artist Laura Todoran Doron Azuri׳s Blog 42/ Recommended App For Artist & Photographers Slidely 46/ Group Exhibition Between A Dream And Reality Participating Artists: Aviva Beigel • Anat Ben Michal Barnea Shani • Liza Zabarsky Beatrice Bernath • Ben Wang Sergey Bunkov • Dr. Markus Sorin Irit Sher Yotvat 90/ Jewish Art Participating Artists: Ora Nissim • Reli Wasser • Benny Hershkowitz Rufina Novkov • Benni Gassenbauer 96/ Naive Art Participating Artists: Shlomi Asher • Rafi Peretz 100/ Contemporary Art Participating Artists: Daniel Lenchner • Ilana Hale • Clari Netzer Dalia Edelsburg • Nurit Tzederboim Shuly Haimsohn • Jacques Sterenberg Shimon Siani 118/ PURE BEAUTY Participating Artists: Moti Shoval • Roman Shevchuck Maya Dunsky • Henryk RostowiczZvi Fadelman

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Editor & Founder : Dafna Navarro Content Editor : Emma Gutenberg Graphic Design : Ziv Kay Contributor: Doron Azuri

ABOUT THIS ISSUEI am very proud and excited about the variety of art displayed in this month’s magazine. In this issue I expect you will find the quality of these exhibitions remarkable. As always, we feature emerging artists alongside well-known artists. This month’s exhibitions have one common denominator: they blur the boundaries between art, dreams and reality.This June’s magazine features the works of well-known Israeli artist Oded Feingersh. During my recent visit to his studio I was surprised to discover that he had created an entirely new art style. It was nothing like his art that I discovered during my early years of art study. I fell in love with his new style which contains bursts of color and fluid boundaries between the fields of painting, graphic and photographic style. Mr. Feingersh has presented more than 100 exhibitions worldwide and his paintings are exhibited in museums and in distinguished private collections. He continues to innovate and present beautiful sophisticated contemporary art.Our group exhibition - Between a Dream and Reality – offers a dreamy view presented through works of digital art, photography, collage, paintings and sketches. The art showcases a variety of meanings of reality: a combination of dreamy scenes featuring women who seem taken from the ancient world contrasted by digital art full of color, photographs taken from amazing locations and paintings portraying different views of reality. Nearly 50 high quality artists can be found in this month’s issue which we hope you will enjoy.Israeli art at its best!

SPECIAL SOLO EXHIBITION

ODED FEINGERSH

THE TERRITORIAL WAR

The land of Israel: a land of flowing with milk and honey of its wildflowers. A land of vipers and scorpions, of deep valleys and mountains that kiss the blue heavens. Where the rivers of the Garden of Eden flows all around, through and within -bringing water to the entire land. A land of colors and aromas, true believers and charlatans, righteous and wicked-land of thousand aspects, perfumed with rose water, spices and magical charms.

Man is cast in the form of his homeland. The landscape has been, and continues to be, the dominant motif in the work of israeli artist ever since the beginning of the last century. For generations of immigrants, who came to her from afar, the shape of the land took on ideological significance. The sought their roots, and emphasized their newfound bond to the promised land by painting dancers of Hora, the sandy beaches of Tel Aviv, olive trees in the Carmel and images of ancient agricultural life. In the Galilee they sang of the earth and their departure from the mythical Jew of exile- a dunam here, a dunam there - and created facts on the ground. The Hebrew farmer followed his oxen, and dug furrows into the soil of the Holy Land. Cutting his figure as a man of the exotic East, a biblical figure climbing out of ancient scrolls.

The Betzalel Academy of Art, established in 1906, was named after Betzalel, the son of Uri, son of Chur of the tribe of Judah. Betzalel built the Tabernacle of God, the Tent of Meeting, as the tribes of Israel wandered about the desert. During the early years of the Betzalel Academy, students painted landscapes in styles

they inherited from ‘fin de siencle’ Europe. Romanticism, also known as Jugendstill, and Art Nouveau dominated the output of an entire generation of artists at Betzalel. Their style was richly imaginative, playful and piquant, and the Zionist artists employed varied local elements as Europeans enchanted by the exotic Middle East. Shepherds of the land of Israel exemplified the local color, their heads wrapped in kafias, their bodies cloaked in flowing wraps of black goat’s wool.

The artists were themselves pioneers, dividing their efforts between paintbrush and hoe. Their landscapes are marked by a touch of deliberate naivet, used at first to distance themselves from the styles of European cities that bore the weight and traditions of anti-semitic regimes. Rustic naivism measured an idealistic stance against urban sophistication. Landscape painting became a natural part of the local environment - without any connection to Jewish tradition or to biblical illustration. Modernism was heralded by a new freedom in wielding the paintbrush, the use of a vivid array of colors- “asif the grey clouds of Europe had vanished, and were gone”, as mentioned above, already in 1926. Jerusalem and the Galilee had become favoritetopics for artists, as the new city of Tel Aviv was still just beginning to blossom, comprised of a loose collection of scattered Jewish neighborhoods. In the wake of the pogroms across Europe, and the rise of the Nazis to power, new waves of immigrants flowed into Israel, and an artistic tradition dominated by academicism and expressionism sprang up naturally around the Betzalel Academy in Jerusalem.The output of the new generation of artists

ODED FEINGERSH Israeli Landscapes


was characterized by woodcuts and monotone drawings, in which the role of color was secondary. From the exotic orientalism of idealized Hebraic styles the artists returned to the principles of the Jewish universalism. They explored a world of symbolism - ancient trees as expressions of solitude, sharp thorns to communicate the realities of daily life in Eretz Israel, and ruined homes to represent the misery of their circumstances.

Against this backdrop, Tel Aviv, instead of Jerusalem, became the focal point for all of the new artistic spirit beginning to arrive from Paris. French impressionism, plays of light and shadow, and fleeting moments frozen in time. To begin with, they painted oil painting landscapes at sunrise or sunset, in homage to the European color palette, but these were later abandoned to lyrical abstraction and watercolor compositions better suited to expressing the wide scope of the new aesthetic.

Landscape painting also provided connections for new schools of art that came from Europe and America. Great fields of pure color, geometric shapes, new media, conceptual and minimalist art and color theory all came from the world of advertising.The national condition, and the ongoing conflicts with Arab nationalism returned to the forefront, causing the landscape painting to bear direct relevance to current events. Accompanying the desire to integrate with the greater world and the Global Village, a clash of cultures began to rage within Israel, arising from the romantic idealization of the land at the beginning of the twentieth century, and extending to the territorial wars that marked the end of the century. Decades passed in between, yet still painting of stone cairns, olive trees, the sands of the coastal plain, and the curve of the hills of Judea retain their potency with regard to place and to current events, and remain as provocative as ever.

Oded Feingersh


Left: Oded Feingersh- Jaffa Sunset From the series -Israeli Landscapes. Oil on canvas. 120x90cm. 2014. $5375

Oded Feingersh- Boat in Jaffa port.From the series -Israeli Landscapes. Oil on canvas. 120x90cm. 2013. $5375


Oded Feingersh- Double Landscapes -Terraces in Shaar-Hagai. From the series -Israeli Landscapes. Oil on canvas. 65X90cm. 2013. $3250


Oded Feingersh- Double Landscapes. Red roof in-the jezreel valley. From the series -Israeli Landscapes. Oil on canvas. 65X90cm. 2013. $3250


Oded Feingersh- Fishing boat in jaffa. From the series -Israeli Landscapes. Oil on canvas. 90X120cm. 2013. $5375


Batya Bombigher-Gospel.Original Art. Oil on canvas. Mixed Media. 79x110

Oded Feingersh- Courtyard in Rosh Pina. From the series -Israeli Landscapes. Oil on canvas. 140X90cm. 2012. $7500

Oded Feingersh- Jezreel Valley. From the series -Israeli Landscapes. Oil on canvas. 120X80cm. 2012. $5000


Oded Feingersh- Fishing Boat In Jaffa Port. From the series -Israeli Landscapes. Oil on canvas. 110x140cm. 2012. $9800

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