Shy Abady

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Shy Abady

Shy Abady (born September 24, 1965 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli artist who deals with topics related to German and Jewish history. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad.

biography

Smoke, 2004, mixed media on paper, on wood, 49.5 × 34.5 cm, from the series "Hannah Arendt Project"
Das Schloss (based on the Berlin City Palace), 2008, electric etching on OSB panel, 98 × 119 cm, from the series "Mein Anderes Deutschland"
The Syrian Bride (Mother), 2016, mixed media on plywood, Ø 110 cm, from the series, "Back to the Levant"

At the age of fifteen Abady took his first painting lessons in the studio of the painter Ascher Rodnizky . She later took part in workshops at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem and studied at the Hamidrasha Art Academy in Ramat Hasharon. Language studies in German and French completed his training. It was only in 2014 that Abady completed his master's degree in art history at the Tel Aviv University Art School .

In 1995 he presented his first solo exhibition, From Reality to Myth - Nijinsky , which portrayed the life and image of the Russian dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky . Nijinsky was also at the center of his second solo exhibition, Anatomy of a Myth , which focused on his movement. Abady later created two more series that explored the body and movement, Caresses , which dissect the male body in parts, and For Your Feet Only , which focused on feet and combined video with sculpture. Abady presented an exhibition on this subject in 2009 at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center with The Danced Revolution , a homage to Nijinsky's and Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes , on the centenary of its premiere in Paris . The homage featured works from two previous Nijinsky series and a new work.

In 2000, Abady received a residency grant at the Cité in Paris. There he created the series Ikone - the golden age , which depicted Jewish figures using Christian iconographic technology. In the series, Abady turned himself and his friends into Christian icons. He referred to aspects of the Jewish-Israeli and Christian-aesthetic art traditions.

In 2005 Abady presented his Hannah Arendt Project series at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main , which deals with the life story and image of Hannah Arendt and the Jewish-German controversies about her political views. After the series was shown in Frankfurt, it was also shown in Bremen and Oldenburg . The series was then presented in the Jerusalem Künstlerhaus. In 2010, seven works from the series were shown in the exhibition Jewish Icons - Andy Warhol and Israeli Artists , at the Beit Hatefutsot Museum in Tel Aviv . A text by Abady about his work on the project in the book Thinking in Dark Times- Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics has been published by Fordham University Press ( New York City ). In the same year, a picture from the Hannah Arendt series by Abady was also used as the cover for the Hebrew edition of Arendt's biography.

In 2006 Abady began work on Radu , a series that shows the Israeli-Romanian poet and writer Radu Klapper in portraits. The series was presented in January 2012 in Zadik Gallery in Jaffa.

From 2007 to 2008 Abady lived in Berlin and created the series My Other Germany . The artist presents his interpretation of German and German-Jewish history and the myth of Berlin sculptures and monuments. The series uses Prussian statues and monuments from the 18th and 19th centuries as an allegory of the 20th century and events from World War II . Five works from the series were shown in 2014 as part of the exhibition "Back to Berlin" at the Herzlija Museum for Contemporary Art (Israel).

In 2010 Abady started working on the series Auguste Victoria , which continues his idea of ​​the Berlin series, but now also shows it from an Israeli perspective. The series explores the dialogues between Theodor Herzl , the intellectual founder of the Jewish state, and Kaiser Wilhelm II , the last German emperor. The fate of the two families becomes an allegory on the fate of the two peoples and that of the Palestinians. The series combines portraits of personalities from the two families as well as architectural constructions related to their history and fate. The series was first presented in 2012 at the “Dan” gallery in Tel Aviv, with the collaboration of the Goethe Institute . In 2014, a work from the series was shown in the exhibition "The Generous Tree" in the art gallery of Umm al-Fahm (Israel).

The portrait of "Kaiser Wilhelm II", a work from the series "Augusta Victoria", as well as two other portraits from the series "Hannah Arendt Project", were shown in the same year as part of the exhibition "Turning Points" in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest shown. The exhibition focuses on the reaction of various contemporary artists to important events of the twentieth century, such as the First and Second World Wars.

Between 2012–2016 Abady created the series "The Return of Passion". The series leads a dialogue with two artists and their creation, one is the Jewish-German artist Elie Marcuse from the 19th century and his epic biblical painting: "The death of King Saul on the Gilboa" and the second is the Italian mannerist painter Jacopo Pontormo. The series isolates pieces from the works of the two artists and provides a stage for a material and conceptual dialogue between them. Through the works of the two, the series explores the complex relationship between the Christian-Western art tradition and the Jewish-Israeli one. The series offers a meditation on the way that Jewish-Israeli art could have developed sensually and aesthetically if it had engaged with Christian-Western art.

In 2016, years after dealing with "Western European" issues, Abady began creating the series "Back to the Levant ", a series that deals with the Levantine region and its history. The series opens a conversation between the complex and sensitive regional history and the artist's personal family history. "Back to the Levant" links Abady's personal story with political history, it blurs the boundaries between Jewish and Arab identities. Abady's painting portrays Arab personalities from the Middle East who are perceived by the Israeli eye as hostile figures (such as Gamal Abdel Nasser and Haj Amin al-Husseini ) alongside his family, all of whom were born in the region and who lived among the Arabs for many years in Jerusalem, Aleppo and Cairo . In addition, in addition to the Arabic inscription, the series also shows sacred places (such as the Dome of the Rock and tombs of the Jewish and Muslim righteous). For the artist, the Levant is an open space of mixed identities that bridge and contrast with East and West. At the same time, the series touches on the encounter between the West and the East within the Israeli internal identity discourse alongside the artist's own ethnic identity.

In 2017 the exhibition "The Restless" by Abady was presented in the "Schechter Gallery" in Neve Schechter in Tel Aviv. The exhibition showed portraits from various series that he created over the years, including portraits from the series “The Return of Passion” and “Back to the Levant”.

In 2018 Shy Abady began his series “The Embers and the Donkey Scream”, which is dedicated to the historic visit of the Jewish poet Paul Celan to Israel in October 1969. The series is part of a joint initiative by Tel Aviv University and Stanford University to mark the 50th anniversary of Celan's visit. In his pictures Abady combines the poetry and the dramatic life of Celan and his experiences during a visit to East Jerusalem . Abady collects words and sentences from Celan's poem "The Embers", the cycle of Celan's Jerusalem poems ("The embers count us together in the donkey's cry in front of Absalom's grave ..."). Abady's works contain words and captions in Arabic and other languages, as well as images of historical sites in East Jerusalem. Donkey pictures and portraits of Celan and Ilana Shmueli , his childhood friend from Chernivtsi , who accompanied him on the trip to Israel, also play a role in the series . Abady emphasizes the Levantine-Arab side of Celan's visit, which so far has received little attention in most reports. The Celan series combines Abady's earlier series, including his German-Jewish series ("The Hannah Arendt Project", "My Other Germany", "Augusta Victoria") and the new series "Zurück zur Levante".

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
year Exhibition name Place of issue
1995 From reality to myth: Nijinsky Bet Ariela - Tel Aviv
1998 Caresses Bet HaAm Gallery - Tel Aviv
1998 Anatomy of a myth Theater - Jerusalem
1999 Just for your feet Artist residence - Herzliya
2005 Hannah Arendt project Jewish Museum - Frankfurt am Main
2006 Hannah Arendt project Heinrich Böll Foundation Gallery - Bremen
2006 Hannah Arendt project Hannah Arendt Center - Oldenburg
2006 Icon - the golden age Artist House - Tel Aviv
2006 Hannah Arendt project Artist House - Jerusalem
2009 The danced revolution Opera House - Tel Aviv
2012 Radu Zadik Gallery Jaffa
2012 Augusta Victoria Dan Gallery - Tel Aviv
2017 The restless Schechter Gallery, Neve Schechter, Tel Aviv
Group exhibitions
year Exhibition name Place of issue
2000 Intimacy: multimedia and video art HaBama Theater - Jerusalem
2001 Reconstruction: Biennale for Contemporary Drawing in Israel Artist House - Jerusalem
2004 In real colors Alternative gallery - Jaffa
2004 The profile of Tel Aviv City Hall - Tel Aviv
2005 Together and separately Enav Cultural Center - Tel Aviv
2008 Beware the aftereffect Infernoesque - Berlin　
2009 bride and groom Museum - Jaffa
2010 Jewish Icons- Andy Warhol and Israeli Artists Beth Hatefutsoth Museum - Tel Aviv
2011 Borrowed place Zadik Gallery - Jaffa
2012 In small format Zadik Gallery - Jaffa
2013 Fans Zadik Gallery - Jaffa
2014 money Zadik Gallery - Jaffa
2014 The generous tree Umm al-Fahm art gallery
2014 Back to Berlin Herzlija Museum of Contemporary Art
2014 Turning points Hungarian National Gallery - Budapest
2015 Libra Schechter Gallery, Neve Schechter, Tel-Aviv
2015 On the face Zadik Gallery, Jaffa
2015 Libra Schechter Gallery, Neve Schechter, Tel-Aviv
2016 Black box Outdoor exhibition, Jerusalem
2017 Home countries Jerusalem Biennial, Bezeq home
2018 I'll be right back Zadik Gallery, Jaffa
2019 Jacqueline Kahanoff : The Levant as a parable Eretz Israel Museum , Tel Aviv
2019 I am in the east Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center , Tel Aviv University
2019 I'm In the East: Spain and Jerusalem Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha'ananim Jerusalem

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i About Shy Abady and his exhibitions. Retrieved November 20, 2010 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Projects by Shy Abady. Retrieved November 20, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Abady, Shy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem