A wonderful exhibition, “Five Museums and a House”, explores the different facets of the famous Bialik Square in Tel Aviv. The opening will take place Monday June 24 at the Artists house at 7:30 p.m. This is an unprecedented project whose work connects the five museums of Bialik Square with the Artists House, two historic cultural centers of the city. Thirty-four artists from the studio of Revital Ben-Asher, art advisor to the mayor of Tel Aviv, accepted the crazy challenge of representing the five museums in a unique way using different techniques.
"In recent years, Bialik Square and some of its museums have been renovated. Arie Berkowitz, the director of the Artists house, Michal Linenberg, who is in charge of the five museums, and I had the idea of bringing these establishments together within a great exhibition. We are all going through a very difficult year due to the war and we wanted to give some joy to the population, with an event that is extraordinary,” said Revital Ben-Asher.
Bialik, which bears the name of the famous poet Haim Nahman Bialik, is a true historic center of Tel Aviv-Yafo. Originally, the five museums were houses which were rehabilitated into cultural places. The five buildings claim a singularity of their own. It is this particularity that the artists wanted to exploit and highlight in their works.
"For a year, the artists were inspired by the interior of the museums on the square, the current exhibitions but also the exterior, the architecture, small details or much larger overall visions, and have thus produced very eclectic works: painting, drawing, collages, embroidery, as well as a video installation filmed between museum windows which alternates points of view between the inside and the outside. Each famous artist pays homage to the architecture of the homes from the exterior and interior, the key figures and hidden stories of these residences and their inhabitants,” Revital says.
This collaboration between the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Hall Museum, the Liebling House, the Bialik House, the Felicia Blumenthal Music Center and Library and the Reuven House has resulted in very original works that visitors could buy with postcards. (6 cards for 20 shekels). They will be displayed on decorative wooden trees in each of the five museums on Bialik Square as well as at the Artists House.
"It's a fairly new concept; we wanted the public to be able to leave with a little something from this exhibition. With the new means of communication, few people still send postcards. It is therefore an object which now belongs to the past, and which recalls nostalgia, the history of this place and everything that we wanted to revive through the works", said Revital.
Nathalie Navara, one of the artists, notably created her work around the word postcard in Hebrew (gluya), drawing in each letter a reference to the museums of the square; the five letters of the word also echo the five buildings.
Among the many postcards, we find portraits of Mania Bialik, the wife of Haim Bialik, Mrs. Toni Liebling and Reuven Rubin but also wild vegetation covering the City Museum, a tribute to Rubin's painting, a stop period shutters, a sleeping cat or even women on motorbikes on Bialik Square.
A magnificent exhibition which will be held until July 24 at the Artists house, at 9 Alharizi Street in Tel Aviv.
Caroline Haïat
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