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Ashurbanipal

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"Ashurbanipal", by Saadya one of the works in “ Paper Heroes ”, an exhibition at the Old Jaffa Museum, Israel October 5 – December 30, 2017 Curator:  Ilan Garibi “ Strap your sword upon a hero's thigh... ” (Psalms 45: 3) This king is not my hero. But he is the hero of my hero. My hero is a Jewish poet who lived in the 7th century BCE in exile in Babylon, then moved to Jerusalem: one of the early Zionists. The poetry he wrote in both locations was to shape Jewish religious experience down through the ages, and many of his verses, whole and in fragments, have made their way into central portions of the Hebrew prayerbook. In their own day too they influenced contemporary Hebrew literary productions such as the Book of Jonah. Yes: a hero of mine, all around. His hero — for so he describes him in a poem written for him in 663 BCE, in Nineveh — was King Ashurbanipal: the last great ruler of the Assyrian Empire, and by his own account the first truly literate one, who could rea...
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"Press-Origami", by Masha Revva

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Origami Tessellations + Press-Prints on Paper June 20 -- July 4 th , 2017 Jerusalem Artisans Gallery  (Beit Ot Hamotzar Hayerushalmi) 12 Hebron Street, Jerusalem, Israel This is a fine, understated exhibit by a leading Israeli origami artist, strangely moving given that the works in it are entirely non-figurative. It brings together tessellations —tile-like patterns from folded paper, each built out of minute folds of a single, uncut sheet—with old-fashioned press-prints in color, also on paper, made by passing the equivalents of these same folded objects under a heavy roller after inking. What's strange is that even though everything h ere is pattern and geometry, so much emotion—even specific ideas of nostalgia, hope, determination—manages to be conveyed. This is also a welcome departure from standard origami exhibitions where one either displays arty-looking paperfolds or efforts to make origami “practical” (fold-up solar collectors for satellites; robotic wheels that expand, ...
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Israeli Origami 2: The Designer vs. the Sculptor

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              Ilan Garibi | Saadya Sternberg Hankin Design Gallery     109 Hankin Street,  Holon,  Israel      March 29 - May 5 2017             This show combines Ilan Garibi’s fabulous explorations of non-paper materials in his fashion and product design—all based on origami patterns he's invented—with my own efforts make original figure-sculpture from origami, mostly in paper but also in a few other types of material. Both of us think of ourselves as carrying origami into new precincts. "Folding Squared: Israeli Origami", Beit Meirov Gallery, Holon, Israel, 2015 We’ve called the exhibition “Israeli Origami 2” in reference to a previous very successful show in a different municipal gallery in the city of Holon, in 2015. There we took a much broader look at the origami activity taking place in Israel today— an exciting range that includes not just the cute animals and pattern-art  (...
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