{"id":7822,"date":"2010-10-12T14:06:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T21:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=7822"},"modified":"2010-10-17T02:19:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T09:19:42","slug":"ohavim-omanut-art-season-opens-in-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=7822","title":{"rendered":"Ohavim Omanut: Art Season Opens in Tel Aviv"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rafi Perez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Put on your walking shoes, Ohavim Omanut \u2013 Loving Art \u2013 the opening event of the season begins on Thursday, October 14, 2010. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Nahum Gutman Museum, Beit Reuven and 75 art galleries will open their doors from 14:00 to 23:00 for this city-wide event \u2013 but that is not all.<\/p>\n

\u201cHearing Art\u201d begins at 19:00 with video, sound and installations created by the Zik group, Uri Dromer, Anat Pik, Nevet Izhak, Guy Sharaf, Talia Keinan, Gabi Krichli, Benaya Reches along Hen Boulevard, Gan Yaakov, Rothschild Boulevard and Ginat HaSharon. \u201cMaking Art\u201d takes place on October 15 and 16, with 250 artists opening their studios to the public. Among the artists participating are Anisa Ashkar, Jennifer Bar-Lev, Lea Avital, Eitan Buganim, Roey Heifetz, Ra\u2019anan Harlap, Shahar Marcus, Hanna Sahar, Shay-Lee Uziel, Elyasaf Kowner and Keren Shpilsher. Making Art Friday 11:00 \u2013 18:00 and Saturday 11:00 \u2013 18:00. A complete list of all the participating artists, events and map of locations can be found here (in English and Hebrew).<\/a><\/p>\n

Some Midnight East favorites:<\/p>\n

The Zimmer<\/strong> will be transported from it\u2019s usual location on HaGdud HaIvri 5 to Ginat HaSharon (otherwise known as Gan HaHashmal on the corner of Levontin and HaHashmal Streets) with a full program beginning at 19:00: Eran Sachs, Shmil Frankel, Alex Yonovich, Guy Dubious and Ron Katsir will explore the sounds of playground equipment, followed by Schneckentempo (Snail\u2019s Pace) a concert of video and live music with video, sound and directing by Nevet Yitzhak and Yael Barolsky on violin. Safi \u201cSniper\u201d Etiel will present a video sound performance and Nico Teen (Zohar Shafrir) will perform new songs along with those from her latest album. The evening will close with an encore from the playground gang.<\/p>\n

At the Tel Aviv Port photographers Eyal Landesman and Eldad Rafaeli<\/strong> will present an evening of stills, video, live music and broadcasts from a pirate radio station on the ruins of 102FM radio. The event is part of the \u201cShort Exposure\u201d project at the port.<\/p>\n

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Michal Goldman\/Image courtesy of Zadik Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Jaffa, the Zadik Gallery<\/strong> will open the exhibition Promised Land by Michal Goldman on Thursday night at 20:00, with painted scenes from the lives of the artist\u2019s neighbors, foreign workers in the neighborhood of the Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv. The performance Promised Land by Avner Eitan and Stefan Ferry will take place in the gallery on Saturday between 11:00 \u2013 16:00. The gallery is located on 16 Shimon HaZadik Street, call 077-495-6981 for further information.<\/p>\n

Historic Bialik Square<\/strong> will host an art happening from 20:00 \u2013 23:00 with video works by Doron Salomons, Gal Weinstein and Assaf Shoshan, music by Tabac and two art exhibits: \u201cNocturnal Pondering\u201d by Dina Shenhav at the Bialik Center and \u201cSehnsucht\u201d by Roey Heifetz at Beit HaIr (Tel Aviv\u2019s original City Hall).<\/p>\n

Nature lovers look for sound artist Anat Pik<\/strong> in Gan Yaakov on Tarsat Street with her installation Frogs. A network of speakers spread among the garden bushes will disperse the sounds of frogs croaking from around the world combined with human voices, creating noise-puddles, which reach to each other.<\/p>\n

The Zik Group<\/strong> will present Three Hundred and Sixty Degrees 2009 \u2013 2010, a video and sound installation on 142 Rothschild Boulevard. Founded in 1985, this intriguing group of artists develops sculptures and sculptural concepts into live performances.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a reason to smile, Kutiman <\/strong>and Karolina<\/strong> will be waiting for you on 68 Rothschild Boulevard with a new video clip for the song Smile 2 Me from Karonlina\u2019s new album \u201cWhat Will I Do Now?\u201d Created as homage to Tel Aviv street artists, it was shot with a pocket camera in 200 locations around the city.
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\nThe \u201cLoving Art \u2013 Making Art\u201d events are initiated and produced by the Arts Department of the Tel Aviv- Yafo Municipality and Impact, the Israeli Union of Visual Artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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