Category: Diary

Drawing Session with Karin Mendelovici

Drawing Performance on the

Rooftop of my new Appartment in Florentine

with Doron and Ophira.  Made a long Movie, but meanwile some

of Dorons Fotos .

 

 

Drawing Sesion with

Miki Ben-Cnaan and OPHIRA AVISAR

Drawing Session and Performance in Arsuf
with Amir Eshel, Ophira Avisar, Doron Polak and lots of friends.

 

Drawing Sessions in the North

For another day i went to the North,
together with my friends Sabine, Doron and Amir.
Our first stop took us to Nahariya.

“In the years 1934/35 Nahariya was founded as an agricultural village by a company limited by shares and headed by the agronomist Dr. Selig Eugen Soskin (1873-1959), the civil engineer Joseph Loewy (1885-1949), the financial expert Heinrich Cohn (1895-1976) and the engineer Simon Reich (1883-1941). The company acquired an area of land by purchase from the Arab landowner family Toueini. After ameliorisation and parcelling the plots have been offered to new German Jewish immigrants who had escaped from Nazi persecution. The first two families permanently settled in Nahariya on February 10, 1935, which is now considered the official founding date of Nahariya.^[5] After an accumulation of economic, financial and climatic problems the residents soon realized that agriculture was impractical and chose to focus on tourism, taking advantage of the natural surroundings and beaches. During the British Mandate of Palestine, many British officers coming from Khartoum stopped in Nahariya.”
(Text Wikipedia)

We meet Itschak De Lange in his Studio and his Gallery “The Edge”.

 

As a Second Stop we followed the Invitation of Eliya Beany in

“Kafr Yasif (Hebrew: כַּפְר יָסִיף; Arabic: كفر ياسيف‎‎, Kufr Yaseef) is an Arab town in the North District of Israel. It is located 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) northeast of the city of Acre and adjacent to Abu Sinan. The population of Kafr Yasif is largely Christian (57%) with a significant Muslim minority (40%), and a small Druze community.” (Text Wikipedia)

Eliya is engaged in the Museum of the IBDAA (Association for Developing and Encouraging Visual Arts in the Arab Society).

For more information, have a look at their Homepage:
www.ibdaa-art.com/en

We had a worm welcome in the Museum
and went on to Eliya Beanys Studio.

Sukkot
16-23 Okt.

“What is Sukkot?

Sukkot (Feast of Booths or Tabernacles) is one of the three biblically based pilgrimage holidays known as the shalosh regalim. It is an agricultural festival that originally was considered a thanksgiving for the fruit harvest. Sukkot are hut-like structures that the Jews lived in during the 40 years of travel through the wilderness after the exodus from Egypt. As a temporary dwelling, the sukkah also represents the fact that all existence is fragile, and therefore Sukkot is a time to appreciate the shelter of our homes and our bodies.

How is Sukkot celebrated?

Sukkot is celebrated by, first of all, building a sukkah. Jews are required to eat in the sukkah for eight days (seven days in Israel), and some even sleep in the sukkah for the duration of the holiday. The sukkah is decorated and the first day is considered a holy day in which most forms of work are forbidden. The rabbis dictated that arbat ha’minim (four species) should be held together and waved during the holiday. These are based on four plants mentioned in the Bible, and the rabbinic version includes the following: etrog (fruit of the citron tree), lulav (palm frond), hadas (leaves from the myrtle tree), and aravah (leaves from the willow tree). This waving ceremony was performed at the Temple in the ancient world.

The seventh day of Sukkot is called Hoshanah Rabah. On that day in the synagogue Jews circle the room seven times while the arbat ha’minim are held and special prayers are recited.”

(Text from: toriavey)

Yom Kippur

(/jɔːm ˈkɪpər, joʊm, jɒm/; Hebrew: יוֹם כִּיפּוּר, IPA: [ˈjom kiˈpuʁ], or יום הכיפורים), also known as the Day of Atonement, is the most solemn and second only to the Sabbath as the holiest day of the year in Judaism. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jewish people traditionally observe this holy day with an approximate 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services.
(Text: Wikipedia)

That means : No Cars, No Television, No Radio …no Market,
Bar etc.
People are out in the streets and go on bikes or walking.
The synagoges are open 24 hours and serve.

Getting up early, going to Banana Beach for a swim,

having a coffee with some artists, going to carmel

market buying fruits and to the studio start working.

Am i exaggerating …? NO! Thats Artist live in the City!

Ps.: Visiting Galleries in between:

Ha´Kibbutz
Founded by the Kibbutz Movement Federation in the 60’s, the Kibbutz Gallery went through some changes along with the development of Israeli art scene. In the last few years the gallegy has focused its identity and its obligation to art as an inseparable part of the discourse on Israeli culture and art. Alongside its ongoing artistic activity the gallery is currently involved in a combined initiative with some 15 galleries operating in various kibbutzim in the kibbutz movement.
(Text: artbeat)

Meeting with Fatma Shannan at the:

Alfred Gallery,
Alfred Cooperative Institute for Art & Culture is an alternative art space – home to an active and vibrant artist community aimed at introducing contemporary Israeli art and its young creators to art lovers in the local community. The Alfred Institute is the successor of Alfred Gallery, a pioneer in the sphere of cooperative artistic ventures, who’s work became a model for numerous cooperative art galleries in Israel. After 8 years of successful work in south Tel-Aviv, Alfred Institute was establish one year ago, as a space devoted entirely to promoting and supporting young Israeli art.
(Text: Alfred Cooperative Institute)

Motorbike Trip to Mount Carmel National Park

By invitation of the BMW – Club Israel i made a ride to the North
visiting the park and the Al-Muhraqa at Mount Carmel

“Mount Carmel National Park (Hebrew: פארק הכרמל, Park HaKarmel) is Israel’s largest national park, extending over most of the Carmel mountain range, and containing over 10,000 hectares of pine, eucalyptus, and cypress forest. The park has numerous bicycle and walking paths, dedicated nature reserves, and over 250 archaeological sites inhabited by prehistoric humans.

The park is one of the largest open spaces of northern Israel. It is a typical example of a Mediterranean ecosystem, and includes a rich inventory of geological phenomena, prehistoric artifacts, biodiversity and landscapes. In 1996 it was recognized by UNESCO as a biosphere reserve.”
(Wikipedia)

Al Muhraqa

Text by the Discalced Carmelite Order Muhraqa Monastery

שנה טובה

From Tel Aviv Rolf_Maria

“Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה‎‎, literally “head [of] the year”) is the Jewish New Year. The biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah (Hebrew: יוֹם תְּרוּעָה‎‎), literally “day [of] shouting/blasting”, sometimes translated as the Feast of Trumpets. It is the first of the Jewish High Holy Days (Hebrew: יָמִים נוֹרָאִים‎‎ Yamim Nora’im, lit. “Days [of] Awe”) specified by Leviticus 23:23–32, which usually occur in the early autumn of the Northern Hemisphere.

Rosh Hashanah is a two-day celebration, which begins on the first day of Tishrei. Tishrei is the first month of the Jewish civil year, but the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year.

According to Judaism, the fact that Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the year is explained by it being the traditional anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman according to the Hebrew Bible, and their first actions toward the believed realization of humanity’s role in God’s world. According to one secular opinion its origin is in the beginning of the economic year in the ancient Near East, marking the start of the agricultural cycle.

Rosh Hashanah customs include sounding the shofar (a hollowed-out ram’s horn), as prescribed in the Torah, following the prescription of the Hebrew Bible to “raise a noise” on Yom Teruah; and among its rabbinical customs, is the eating of symbolic foods such as apples dipped in honey to evoke a “sweet new year”.”

(Wikipedia.org)