{"id":11312,"date":"2011-03-27T06:48:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T13:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=11312"},"modified":"2011-03-27T06:52:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T13:52:20","slug":"bezalel-academy-of-arts-design-jerusalem-to-exhibit-in-milan-design-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=11312","title":{"rendered":"Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design Jerusalem to Exhibit in Milan Design Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arthur Brutter - Earthquake protecting desk. A classroom desk designed to serve as a shelter from earthquakes. Designed with the assistance of The Israeli National Rescue and Civil Defense\/Photography: Oded Antman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThinking Hands<\/strong>,\u201d an exhibit of designs by Bezalel students will be on show at the new, avant-garde Ventura Lambrate District during Milan Salone Internazionale del Mobile <\/strong>(also known as Milan Design Week), the largest design fair in the world, which takes place in Milan, Italy, from April 12 to 17 this year.<\/p>\n

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Tal Frenkel Alroy \u2013 Pearless. Another take on a classic status symbol \u2013 the pearl necklace\/Photography: Ana Morin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design <\/a>was chosen to showcase 45 designs from 37 under-graduate and post-graduate students, alongside work from the Royal College of Art in London, the School of Art and Design in Lodz, Poland, and the Academy of Art Maastricht in The Netherlands, among others \u2013 16 in total. The exhibit represents a cross-section of Bezalel\u2019s B.Des and M.Des graduates over the last two years. The works\u00a0were originally displayed at the final exhibitions of both programs \u2013 something to keep in mind when end-of-the-year exhibits come around.<\/p>\n

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Koby Sibony \u2013 Wire Frames. A radio assembled from plastic scraps and a wire frame\/Photography: Oded Antman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe philosophical background of the theme of the exhibition, \u2018Thinking Hands\u2019, comes from the new integrations and combinations possibilities in design today, enabled by the post-industrial radical change,\u201d says Prof Ezri Tarazi, head of the Master of Design program. \u201cBezalel is a cutting-edge laboratory of design in which students explore and experiment with the unconventional and unordinary in design today, and Milan is the best place to expose the Bezalel scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ori Yekutiel \u2013 LightStone. Stone - foam experiments. Patent pending technology\/Photography: Oded Antman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The images speak for themselves, conveying the creativity and sense of experimentation and exploration in these designs. The curators\u2019 text below, indicates the concepts underlying the planning and organization of the exhibit:<\/p>\n

“Thinking Hands” relates to a certain thought process that takes place between the hand and the brain, nurturing itself with feedback in a circular manner. During the creation process, a reverberation takes place that is a reflection of the corrected or disturbed action during the process. This process of thinking by doing, contradicts classic methodologies of pre-planning and then moving on to strict execution according to the plan.<\/em>
\nAs seen in our graduates\u2019 projects here, today\u2019s designers apply design as a manner of expression; they use it to formulate a personal perception, examine their identity, define new needs and challenge the classic industrial design process. Through these projects we can observe also the resources issues that contemporary design is dealing with. Resources such as: material, time, capabilities and traditional characteristics that are transferred from one culture to another, absorbed and changed.\u00a0 Today\u2019s contemporary design examines anew its place in the developing cultural experience. This is a new chapter in our industry that stands between the manufactured product and the one-off a kind object.<\/em><\/p>\n

The main theme of the exhibit is the concept of \u201cThinking Hands\u201d. This concept of “thinking by doing” is expresses in four hands. Hands that are thinking, searching, exposing and creating are becoming the main player.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nir Shalom \u2013 Amigo. Custom wheelchair for disabled dogs\/Photography: Oded Antman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These four sub-themes are:<\/em><\/p>\n

The Exposing Hand:<\/em>
\nFloods us with questions about new-old needs; those pre-historic, animalistic, instinctive needs (of the object and of man). The hand exposes the material, the past, inner organs, routines, and desires. It allows us to put rationale aside and concentrate on inner desires- the physical and emotional ones, and to make room for the mystical and spiritual thought from within this exposure.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Unifying Hand:<\/em>
\nThe Unifying Hand was born from the critical observation of what humanity has created through its continual striving for beauty, enormity, newness, and perfection. Our bruises and scars as a society have given birth to a hand that is full of compassion for time and for faults; a hand that is a patient creator; a healing, loving hand with compassion towards man and object.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sonnenschein Ori \u2013 Solskin peels. Citrus fruit peels as tableware using experimental microwave technology\/Photography: Oded Antman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Enchanting Hand:<\/em>
\nThis hand is driven by a conscious search for the local, accessible and responsibly useable. It exposes resources \u2013 new quarries hidden in available remnants: old bags become skin, and fruit peels become pottery. The production process is based on domestic constancy, known or new. The Enchanted Hand is the alchemy of combining old and new materials and giving them new meanings.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The Mischievous Hand:<\/em>
\nA Mischievous Hand that knows and well recognizes production processes, creating disturbances in the order of the process. This hand places a proverbial stick in the machine, disturbing its smooth running, stretching the machine\u2019s boundaries and the boundaries of the material. This is the hand that creates \u201ccraft\u201d from a new variety endowed with a new language of design, by way of disrupting the old and familiar system.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Noa Habas \u2013 Duo, Sensing time. A braille wristwatch for the blind.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bezalel\u2019s curatorial team comprises Haim Parnas, Prof. Ezri Tarazi, head of Bezalel’s Master of Design (M.Des) program, Ilanit Kabessa Cohen, academic coordinator of the M.Des program, and Liora Rosin, a recent Master of Design (M.Des) graduate of Bezalel’s Industrial Design department. The exhibition design team includes Rosin and Nitsan Debbi, another recent M.Des graduate.<\/p>\n

Opening hours
\nPress Preview: Monday April 11, 15:00 \u2013 20:00
\nGeneral Opening Hours: Tuesday April 12 \u2013 Sunday April 17, 10:00 \u2013 20:00
\nVentura Lambrate Opening Night: Wednesday April 13, 19:00 \u2013 23:00<\/p>\n

Address
\nVentura Lambrate
\nCollective Location
\nVia Massimiano 6, 20134 Milan, Italy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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