Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Israel Now is a multi-disciplinary collection of works reflecting the dynamism and vision of 24 extraordinary Israeli artists. This exhibition at the MACRO Testaccio of Rome, that this book catalogues received the culture award from the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano. The book explores multiple future scenarios to offer a possible alternative conception of artistic production and fruition as well as individual and collective identity. Structured around a diverse selection of Israeli artists, each work is as unique as the experiences that inspired it. The artists involved are Boaz Arad, Maya Attoun, Yael Bartana, Orit Ben-Shitrit, Yifat Bezalel, Ofri Cnaani, Elinor Carucci, Michal Chelbin, Keren Cytter, Shay Frisch Peri, Dani Gal, Tamar Harpaz, Lea Golda Holterman, Meital Katz Minerbo, Shai Kremer, Adi Nes, Uri Nir, Leigh Orpaz, Michal Rovner, Yehudit Sasportas, Nahum Tevet, Gal Weinstein, Shahar Yahalom, Guy Zagursky.Texts by Gianni Alemanno, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Ofra Farhi, Piergaetano Marchetti, Franco Pavoncello and Micol Di Veroli.
Synopsis
Israel Now -- Reinventing the future is a great multi-disciplinary catalogue, able to reflect the dynamism and vision of 22 Israeli artists engaged in a deep research on the manipulation of possible futures. Why reinventing the future? Reinventing the future means not only to evolve but to transform into something different, beyond the concept of the production of the new and the spectacular. The future is waiting only to be reinvented, be it through a new way of thinking in the social sphere, looking to new technologies or creating new forms. Thus the artistic practice can open up new windows on alternative worlds. Modern society must inevitably break free from the constraints of the new as the only form of progress and reinvent the future, to regain a real sense of it. Israel Now -- Reinventing The Future seeks to open multiple future scenarios, in order to offer a possible alternative conception of artistic production and fruition as well as of individual and collective identity. The project is structured around a selection of Israeli artists of different generations and experiences. The land of Israel is a concrete example of a nation looking at the future, because it draws nourishment from a multi-ethnic society, characterized by a deep and ancient spirituality and at the same time it is able to open up parallel scenarios, both real and imagined Israeli artists are immersed in an environment that has already developed a solid idea of the future.