האמן הישראלי אבנר בר חמא משתתף בתערוכה שנפתחה לפני כשבוע בוושינגטון

האמן   הישראלי   אבנר   בר   חמא   משתתף   בתערוכה   שנפתחה   לפני   כשבוע   בוושינגטון   .

בנושא   " גבולות   ישראל   ופלסטין ".   שם   העבודה : " היום   גוש   קטיף - מחר   יפו !"

בר חמא נסע   לוושינגטון להרכבת העבודה ולהשתתפות בפתיחה שהתקיימה בתאריך 21.2.08 בהשתתפות קהל רב .

התערוכה   תהיה   פתוחה   עד   יוני   2008.

לאתר האישי:  

http://www.barhama.com/homepage.html

 

How can we look at maps, which are often considered to be a reflection of history and objectivity, as lenses through which we can interpret the social milieu of Israel? Do people define and draw borders, or do borders define and create a “people” (or a peoplehood?) How can boundaries be examined in a way that is not staunch and constrictive, but rather open to other ways of knowing a specific landscape?

The exhibition ‘L(A)ttitudes’ which opens at the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery on February 21 raises more questions than it provides answers. The exhibition does attempt to create an inclusive conversation by focusing on explorations by contemporary artists, of various viewpoints, working in a variety of forms and styles. ‘L(A)ttitudes’ includes work by 10 artists from five different countries. Highlights include Alban Biaussat’s 55 photographs interpreting the Green Line; frescos of historic maps by Joyce Kozloff; manipulated atlas works by Doug Beube; two installations: one a 25-foot “Orange Map” floor installation by Avner Bar Hama, and a commissioned wall installation by Simonetta Moro; Yoav Galai’s black and white photographs of the separation wall in Israel; two works from local artists: Nikolas Schiller’s digital manipulation of a CIA map, and Anna Fine Foer’s collage remembering Biblical Israel; and pieces from Karey Kessler and Mel Watkin who are working with psychogeography, interpreting and creating maps, and taking a new approach to boundaries and borders in and around Israel.

Avner Bar Hama, Israeli, b. 1946

About the artist :

Bar Hama was born in Morocco in 1946, and immigrated to Israel in 1956 . From 1966-1973 he studied art at the High School of Painting at the Art Teachers’ Training College, in Ramat Hasharon. Upon graduation, he was asked to join the school staff, where he was nominated as Pedagogic Director from 1972-1977. After this, Bar Hama served an educational assignment in Brussels. From 1981-2007 he has been the Head of the Art Department at Talpiot College, Tel Aviv. Between 1988 and 1992 he served as a representative of the Jewish Agency in Eastern Canada and during 2002 he served as a representative of the Jewish Agency Cultural Department in Western Europe.

Since 1972, Bar Hama has exhibited over 30 sculptures and artistic projects in Israel and abroad, and many of his works are permanent fixtures. Bar Hama has won various sculpting competitions and other prizes including the annual prize for Jewish Art, by the Ministry of Education & Culture, and the 2000 "Exhibition Award" from the Tel Aviv Artists’ Association. In 2003 he was chosen to participate at the “Cité International des Arts de Paris,” and in 2004 was recipient of the Ministry of Education & Culture’s first annual prize for Jewish Culture.

About the work:

Bar Hama’s work is frequently referred to as the “Art of Disengagement,” from the religious-zionist perspective, or, the “Far Right.” Especially interesting is his work that protests against terrorism (in one piece he shows Arafat drenched with red blood-like paint.) Naturally, he and a group of similar-minded artists from the Right find it almost impossible to get their work displayed in art galleries and museums in Israel.

L (A) t t i t u d e s’ centerpiece is Bar Hama’s twenty-five foot floor-installation map of the Land of Israel composed of oranges, each stamped with a green "Jaffa" sticker. Bar Hama states: " Orange is the color of the anti-disengagement campaign, and the green stamps hint that today we are talking about Gush Katif, but tomorrow we might be talking about Jaffa…" In 2005, he wanted to awaken some empathy for the settlers. "Politically, we were always seen as settlers. Nobody knew what was going on with us culturally." "[Bar Hama shows] on the one hand the promise of walking the entire land, and at the same time the reality that doesn´t permit us to do it - and that is the conflict."

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L (A) t t i t u d e s

February 21-June 2, 2008

Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery

Washington DCJCC

1529 Sixteenth Street NW

Washington , DC   20036

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