Sound Requires a Medium is supported by Outset Contemporary Art Fund, the Ministry of Culture, and the Israeli Lottery Arts Council

The CCA is pleased to present Sound Requires a Medium, Maya Dunietz’s first solo, large-scale, site-specific, sound art exhibition. Dunietz is a composer, musician, and sound artist based in Israel whose work ranges from composing for ensembles and choirs, performing as a pianist and singer, and creating sound installations. She founded the Givol Choir, an experimental vocal ensemble and is a member of the band “Habiluim.” Her work has been presented at venues including the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014), Arnolfini, UK (2013), and the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011). Dunietz has recently been awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Composers.

Dunietz works at the intersection of visual art, music, sound, and performance. In all of these mediums, her practice is abstract and experimental, intent on shifting viewers’ and listeners’ attention to the essence of perception. Dunietz is inspired by sound theorists, scientists and philosophers, such as Lord Kelvin and his exploration of sound, matter and space, and Pauline Oliveros who coined the term and practice of “Deep Listening” that aims to connect individuals to their environments and open us up to one another.

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Marlborough Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Beijing-based artist Song Yige, curated by Zeng Fanzhi.
The exhibition is the artist’s first solo show outside of Asia.
Known for her figurative paintings, Song depicts everyday objects and anonymous characters, alongside subjects from the natural world in imaginary settings.
Her atmospheric works feature modest items often eschewed from their pictorial background. Through large-scale emotive and unsettling paintings Song merges childhood memories with autobiographical settings to reinterpret modern society. Themes of human emotion underpin the work, with a sense of loneliness and nostalgia inhabiting much of Song’s practice. Empty interiors, solitary objects and figures depicted from behind or with obscured faces are enveloped by vast space – a representation of the human experience of living and coexisting within the cityscape.

A panel will be held during the launch with the participation of Tali Tamir, Keren Goldberg and Avshalom Suliman. On the occasion of the book launch Chelouche Gallery will open Nadav Weissman’s solo exhibition “There is No Such Place”. The exhibition features an installation, previously on show at Lohamei HaGeta’ot Gallery, as part of the Oscar Hendler Award for 2014 prize, curated by Michal Horowitz and Yeshayahu ish Gabay. The exhibition “There is No Such Place” was produced with the support of The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts. The book was published thanks to the support of MiFal HaPayis.

Nadav Weissman 2007-2015 is a comprehensive book that showcases the artist’s work of these years throughout his various extensive installations. The book includes two new essays by Tali Tamir and Keren Goldberg and beautiful photos documenting the artworks and different installations. Languages: Hebrew and English.

From the book:
“The absence of continuity, the reflection of the past (childhood) in the present (adulthood), fragmentation and hybridity – all these attributes are reflected in Weissman’s complex installations, which call for an allegorical reading. Rather than joining together in a decipherable plot or narrative, the upside-down trees, the landscape segments, buildings, posts, lawns and figures are left to themselves, standing for a world deprived of its illusion of unity. In Weissman’s inventory of images, based in the 2000’s, the original, complete copy does not exist. The world he constructs is fragmentary, straddling reality and delusion, as a product of an onslaught of images in a technological world that no more distinguishes narrative from script.”
– Tali Tamir

In the exhibition “There Is No Such Place” Weissman explores the intersection of the human body and urban landscape. The human form transforms to an architectural structure, landscapes into body parts and together they compose an awry humanoid playground. Weissman creates an experience that combines the familiar with the strange, the obvious with the enigmatic and the visible with the invisible. The images, structures and objects in the installation are released from the external reality, yet do not ignore it- the common hierarchies of material, form and proportion communicate with various cultural references and produce a complex experience. These transitions are constructed out of Weissman’s unique and private syntax and lexicon, which echo, suggest and refer to core issues of the cultural fabric beyond the artistic discourse.

“…in ‘There is No Such Place’, the non-existent place, normal proportions are distorted, while the mimetic impulse reaches an extreme: the figures and buildings receive the same size, the same representational translation. The body merges with the building, the track, the road and the staircase; man becomes a construction site.”
– Keren Goldberg (from Nadav Weissman 2007-2015)

Nadav Weissman, born 1969, lives and works in Tel Aviv. Winner of the Oscar Hendler Award for 2014, Ministry of Education and Culture Award for distinction in the visual arts, 2005, and a scholarship for young artists, from the Israeli Lottery – Mif’al Hapa’is, Israel, 2002.
Wiessman exhibited numerous solo shows and participated in distinct worldly exhibitions in Israel and abroad, in venues such as: Kabe Contemporary Miami, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Musac, Leon, the National Museum Taiwan, and Arco Madrid.

About the Contributors:

Tali Tamir is an independent curator that specializes in contemporary art and Israeli Art History and Culture. She launched her career as a curator in 1991, with her exhibition “Solar Eclipse” at Bugrashov gallery, marking two years of the first Intifada. Between 1994-2004 Tamir was the curator of the Kibbutz Gallery, where she followed new motifs in the art of the Kibbutz. In 2005-2010 she served as the curator of the Nahum Gutman Museum, opening its gates to contemporary artists alongside Gutman’s works. During her work at the specific institutions Tamir independently curated shows at leading institutions such as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, Museum of art Ein Harod, Petach Tikva Museum of Art and more. In recent years she is engaged with curatorial education and publications of books and essays. She is the recipient of the Israeli Minister of Culture Award for a Curator, 2010.

Keren Goldberg is an independent writer and art critic. She received her Masters in Critical Writing from Royal College of Art, London, and writes regularly to international magazines such as ArtReview, Mousse, art-agenda, Frieze and ARTnews.

Modern Japanese graphic art has indeed undergone many changes, but the marks of their traditional art heritage are deeply rooted in the works of Japanese artists, including refinement and pure aestheticism, clean performance and high technical skills. Most of the prints in the exhibition were designed in the 1970s and 1980s, and are characterized by areas of lines and patches of color in abstract geometric forms, creating a sense of refinement and harmony. Many of these prints also integrate fine gradations of colour, a technique employed in the traditional Japanese woodblock prints, and executed with care and polish.
More Exhibitions

Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art
Fumizukai
(The Messenger; 2004), 15 minutes.
Animation by Naoya Kurisu
Opening: Saturday, 06.Feb 2016 | 19:30 pm
Curator: Dr. Ilana Singer Blaine
Closing: Sunday, 05.06.2016
HaNassi Blvd 89
HaNassi Blvd 89, Haifa
http://www.tmja.org.il/eng/Exhibitions/2704/Fumizukai

From (The Messenger; 2004), 15 minutes.
Animation by Naoya Kurisu

A woman is brought to a lonely hut in the mountains. She had been the favorite shirabyoshi dancer of a Heian nobleman from the capital, but returned home due to illness.
She was also secretly loved by another young man who received news of her illness in a mysterious fashion. The story is set in about 1,000 CE, and the spoken language is ancient Japanese. The film has won numerous awards.

The exhibitions include two group exhibits and ten solo exhibits. The museum will also host the international artist Federico Solmi.
“I want to be a machine”, declared Andy Warhol, thereby noting the loss of authenticity in contemporary culture and delegitimisation of an artist’s emotional expression.
Technological developments have brought far-reaching changes in the artist’s self-perception, as well as in the understanding of the essence of art and creative process.
These changes are the focus of the new exhibitions which address the period spanning the second half of the twentieth century until the present day,
and explore the Pop and Op (optical) Art movements