| Exhibitions Archive - The New Gallery |
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| Jerusalem Ghost |
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Artists: |
Hannan Abu Hussein | Ilizirov Lev | Eevital Cohen | Silvia Licht | Zoyka Legkiy |
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Everyone knows that Jerusalem is a unique city. It's charged nature - historical, religious, political - is evident not merely in the dramatic urban landscape - mosques, steeples and walls - but above all, in its human vistas. The spirits who haunt every alleyway and hilltop also insinuate themselves into the souls of its inhabitants. It is virtually a matter of scientific fact that the population of Jerusalem comprises...

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| Nocturnal Stillness |
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Artists: |
Reuven Zahavi | Ariane Litman-Cohen | Niv Ben David |
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Andrey Lev |
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“Goy” is a cultural/biological term defining - within the semantic field of Jewish culture - the figure of the alien and the presence of a certain set of genes. Similar terms serve as a back door that admits into the culture ideologies that do not relate to a person as a phenomenal informative entity...

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| Goyim |
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Artists: |
Hannan Abu Hussein | Erez Wagner | Esti Alamo | Chanchal Bango | Raya Bruckental | Zoya Cherkassky | Masha Duchovnaya & Anna Golfand | Max Epstein | Tom Goldberg | Arcadi Greenman & Max Lomberg | Luisiana Kaplun | Shiri R. Lanton | Anna Lukashevsky | Inna Polonsky | Maria Pomiansky | Masha Rubin | Esther Schneider | Angelika Sher | Boris Shpeizman | Ricardo Werdesheim | Maya Zack |
| Curator: |
Andrey Lev |
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“Goy” is a cultural/biological term defining - within the semantic field of Jewish culture - the figure of the alien and the presence of a certain set of genes. Similar terms serve as a back door that admits into the culture ideologies that do not relate to a person as a phenomenal informative entity...

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| The Alchemists |
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Artists: |
Haya Esther | Ella Beit Halahmi | Lena Zaidel | Ruth Dorit Yacobi | Ina Polonski | Janice Shapiro |
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Shoshi Aberbuh |
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The term “alchemy”, also known as “the dark art”, suggests mystery and secrets of antiquity. Alchemy is a study of matter and spirit. Its origins lie in experiments with materials performed in numerous ancient civilizations such as Egypt, China, the Islamic lands and Europe. Likewise, the Jewish Kabala relates in depth to this domain.

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| In the Course of Time |
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Artists: |
Noam Dror | Mirit Chervinski | Motti Yifrach |
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The NAUSEA
I live alone, entirely alone. I never speak to anyone, never; I receive nothing, I give nothing… When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell something: the plausible disappears at the same time as the fiends. You let events flow past...

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| Touches |
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Artists: |
Shlomi Brosh |
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It all began in Zfat (Safed).
Whenever young Shlomi Brosh roamed the alleyways of his native town, he would look out for any chance to peep into the artists’ studios scattered along every lane. In those pre-air conditioner times...

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| The Divine Image |
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Artists: |
Zelig Segal | Vera Gutkina | Uli Bocker | Anatoly Basin |
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If an image of a tree sparks images of trees, what does inspire a portrait of a man? Ideas of time, love, science, fashion, politics? The work of Art, in its actuality, is perception and each image breeds a hundred more...

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| Rashomon |
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Artists: |
Oren Eliav | Nir Harel | Roy Suffrin | Noa Charuvi | Yonathan Hirschfeld | Masha Zusman | Avi Sabah | Rony Carny | Shira Glezerman | Gilly Avisar | Gil Yafman |
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N. Charuvi, Y. Hirschfeld, R. Suffrin. |
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The Rashomon effect is the effect of subjectivity on perception and memory. It means that viewers of a certain event might have essentially different but equally reasonable impressions thereof...

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| Waiting For An Echo |
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Artists: |
Liliana Kadichevski & Mark Daniel Cohen |
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One might think that a collaboration between two artists, particularly artists who work in such different art forms as video installation and poetry, would be rife with difficulties. However...

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| Lost Spaces |
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Dalit Sharon & Eldad Shaltiel |
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Outside there is a stadium. Inside the stadium, Dalit Sharon and Eldad Shaltiel have constructed another stadium, or structure similar to a stadium. They propose that we dwell upon the similarity. They suggest that we compare the large stadium outside with the small stadium inside....

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| Forest Man |
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Artists: |
Liliana Kadichevski | Ergin Cavusoglu | Yaakov Hefetz | Nasan Tur | Doron Furman |
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Doron Furman |
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Strolling in the forest, he encountered a large black mirror. He polished it, taking great pains to clean and scour it. But his reflection remained blurred and fuzzy.
Human civilization functions between two dichotomies: one, noble, is passionate and visceral; the other - cultural and moral...

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| Sacrifice |
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Artists: |
Oshrat Helen Bentor | Asad Azi | Yosefa M. Drescher |
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Hedva Shemesh |
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The tale of the offering of Isaac is one of the high-points of biblical prose. A chilling drama narrated tersely, with a minimum of detail, without a word too much. Possibly for that very reason, the tale draws the attention of each generation, the reader's attention riveted by its sparse potency...

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| Playground |
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Artists: |
Dana Levy, Alon Cohen Lifshitz, Hannan Abu Hussein, Hagar Goren, Hadas Keidar, Yoav Weiss, Gaston Itzkovitch, Dafna Grossman, Marcello Lauber, "SALA-MANCA" |
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Alon CohenLipshitz & Marcelo Lauber |
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The "Playground" project attempts to transform the gallery into a space where temptation and menace, boundaries, regulations and the sense of freedom, trial and error...

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| Remember Where You Came From |
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Artists: |
Julia Lagusker & Galina Bleikh |
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Hedva Shemesh |
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It all began when I told to my friend, artist Antro Aum, about my amazing discovery: Sir G. Word's diary dating from the beginning of the last century. During his archeological excavations in the Jerusalem hills...

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| Observances |
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Artists: |
Emmanuel Santos |
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Shosh Averbukh |
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A photographic exhibit documenting the Ashkenazi Hassidic community takes on a unique perspective when presented by a photographer born on the island of Luzon in the Philippines...

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| Prisa |
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Artists: |
Chen Shapira | Noam Rabinovich |
| Curator: |
Hedva Shemesh |
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| Boiling Point |
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Artists: |
Joshua Neustein |
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Hedva Shemesh |
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The mapped view suggests an encompassing of the world without asserting the order based on human measure that is offered by perspective pictures. This tradition of picture making has it's roots in Dutch art of the 17th Century...

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| Cocooning |
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Artists: |
Edna Ohana |
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Hedva Shemesh |
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Edna Ohana ventured into the woods near home to experience the sensation of cocoon within a womb of thread...

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| Shever |
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Artists: |
Yuval Danieli | Ami Valach | Tzila Liss |
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Talila Grinberg |
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Equality is an ideal aspired for by mankind since the very beginning of humanity.
The Kibbutz - a community based on equal rights and duties - is an attempt to make this ideal come true...

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| Dozing Rousing |
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Artists: |
Max Epstein | Katya Oicherman | Boris Oicherman |
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Hedva Shemesh |
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When an art critic encounters a creative artist ~ not for the purpose of writing a review but rather, as in the present case, in the role of "presenter" ~ it gives rise to ethical difficulties. If we can liken the relationship between curator and presenter to that between restaurateur and waiter...

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| Black White Gray |
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Artists: |
Ejezquel Iardeni |
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Rayah Redlich |
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There is no arcane research to be sought in this brief assessment, nor some new theory. It is simply an interim summary of the work of Ejezquel lardeni, seen from an unconventional viewpoint. As a rule, essays...

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