משתמש:גלית מועלם/Lena Zaidel
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Lena Zaidel (Heb: לֶנָה זַיְדֶל; in Russian : Лена Зайдель ; born November 3, 1962 ) is an Israeli artist born in the the USSR . Most of her oeuvre engages with the image of the wolf, which became in her paintings a symbol of liberation and liberty in the urban space of Jerusalem. Zaidel is a member of the cooperative gallery Agripas 12.
Biography[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
Lena Zaidel was born in 1962 in St. Petersberg in the former Soviet Union, the only child of Olga and Felix Rabinovich, who were engaged in photography and cinema. In 1976, Lena and her family immigrated to Israel.
Lena Zaidel is a multidisciplinary artist who draws, paints, and sculpts. A graduate of the Bezalel, Jerusalem Academy of Art and Design.
(BFA, 1987), she was awarded a grant from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (Sharett Scholarship, 1983), the Bezalel Academy Prize (1987) and the Shoshana Ish Shalom Award for Artistic Creation (2016).Her works are in private and public collections, among them the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Umm El-Fahm Art Gallery, the collection of Dr. Gideon Efrat (Ofer Levin Foundation Collection of Israeli Art).
She is married to artist Oded Zaidel and mother of artist/teacher Neta Zaidel.
The Image of the Wolf
The wolves wake Jerusalem from its deep slumber, shaking up its streets and sacred sites. Nothing remains unaffected where the wolves have passed. The wolves threaten outdated perceptions, and personal, social or political fanaticism or dogma. They also threaten the tedious daily routine, which dulls one´s senses, vision and thinking. The scenes take place on the fault line between civilization and wilderness and depict the encounter between the wild and culture. The wolves appear as regiments of the Salvation Army, shaman-healers who grant the city its purity and promise of a new future. They are a reminder of untamed vitality, nature´s magic, alert instinct and intuition, challenging structured and linear thinking. As they run through the city´s streets they are transformed into a sign, a symbol, a magic spell that is repeated again and again. (Lena Zaidel)
Lena Zaidel´s creative psyche sways between two poles: at the one, the abstract, she aspires for sublime spiritual peace, of the meditative and sacred type. However, at the other pole, the realistic, she is drawn to the earthy, the bodily, the animalistic, the energetic, which the wolf depicts in her creative works. This itself is the "threat" which arises from her above quoted words about wolves as arousing from the slumber of routine and the inertia of stagnation. Lena Zaidel´s paintings are stretched in both directions, which fecundate each other: the meditative grows out of the "wolfy," and the "wolfy" from the meditative. The duality of peace and vigilance, of the good and the threat, the sacred and the profane, the spiritual and the earthy, the salvation and the apocalyptic. Jerusalem, the heavenly bride, in contrast with the wolf of the underworld. This duality is a creative split
From the text The Wolves’ Riddle, by Gideon Ofrat for Lena Zaidel´s catalogue of the exhibition: Street Wolves, Jerusalem Artists’ House, 2013
Gallery[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
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Wolf of the Branches, 2015, iron frame, branches, 72x140x44, awarded the Shoshana Ish-Shalom Prize, 2016 -
Signs of Love, 2006, pastel on paper, 108x230 -
Western Wall Plaza, 2, 2006, pastel on paper, 108x230. Collection of Israel Museum -
Chair, 2006, pastel on paper, 108x230 -
Dome of the Rock, 1, 2006, pastel on paper, 108x230 -
Western Wall Plaza 1, 2006, pastel on paper, 108x230 -
Art of air-conditioning, 2006, pastel, industrial gold paint on paper, 108x230 -
Paz Talpiot, 2006, pastel, industrial gold paint on paper, 108x230 -
Bulldozer, 2007, charcoal, pastel, industrial gold paint on paper, 43x110 -
Garage, 2, 2008, pastel, industrial gold paint on paper, 150x495 -
Dome of the Rock, 4, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 50x100. Gideon Ofrat Collection ( Levin Foundation for Israeli Art ) -
Dome of the Rock, 7, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 240x210 -
King George Street, 2009, charcoal, industrial gold paint on paper, 108x276 -
Dome of the Rock, 3, 2010, pencil on paper, 33x90 -
Fence, 2, 2009, pencil on paper, 33x90 -
Marcel Janco’s Dream, 2, 2018, pastel on paper, 95x240
Prizes[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
- 2016 - Shoshana Ish-Shalom Award for Artwork
- 1987 - Bezalel Academy Prize for designing the Poster for Israel´s 39th Anniversary
- 1983 - Young Artists’ Scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation ( Sharet Foundation )
Selected collections[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
- The Janko-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, 2019
- The Israel Museum, Drawing and Prints Department, 2015
- Dr. Gideon Efrat Colletion, The Levin Foundation for Israeli Art, 2013
- Umm Al-Fahm Art Gallery, 2007
Solo exhibitions[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
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Selected group exhibitions[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
- 2023 - Running with Wolves - Version 2023, Re’ut Artists´ House, Re’ut, Curator: Tal Gelfer
- 2022 - My Childhood Album, Gordon College of Education, Haifa, Curator: Rina Genussov
- 2022 - Spatial Action, Agripas 12 and Marie Galleries, Jerusalem, Curator: Dr. Nava T. Barazani
- 2022- Lena, Oded and Neta Zaidel: My Family and Other Animals.
- The Gallery for Israeli Art at the Tivon Memorial Center, Curator: Michal Shachnai Yacobi
- 2021 - Neopostism? Neosent?, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem, Curators: Lena Zaidel, Sasha Okun
- 2021- A House on the Bridge, Museum Kaiserswerth, Dusseldorf, Germany
- 2021- The Artists of Agripas 12 Gallery´s: Homage to Moshe Castel,The Moshe Castel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Ma´ale Adumim, Curators: Osnat Shapira, Lena Zaidel
- 2020 - A House in Ein Hod, Ein Hod Gallery, Curator: Yossi Waxman
- 2020 - Vienna 1900, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem
- 2019 – “And in my dream…Janco,” with Oded Zaidel, The Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod. Curator: Rina Genussov
- 2019- L.H.O.O.Q., Janco-Dada Museum. Ein Hod. Curator: Raya Sommer
- 2019 – Fresh Paint Art Fair, 11, Satellite exhibition, Agripas 12 Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Hagai Segev
- 2019 - "...A Sex Life or the Kingdom of Heaven?", Works from the collection of Mikhail Grobman, The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv. Curators: Chana Kofler, Orit Mor
- 2019 - Her Dress, Her Symbol, Antea Revisited, Agripas 12 Gallery and Marie Gallery, Jerusalem. Curators: Nomi Tannhauser, Rita Mendes-Flohr
- 2018 - The Artist´s Family, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem. Curators: Yossi Waxman, Lena Zaidel
- 2018- The Artist´s book of Agripas 12, TLV, Tel Aviv, Curator: Shoshana Averbuch
- 2018 - Fantasy, Sadnaot Gallery, Yavne, Curators: Lilach Abramsky-Arazi, Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar
- 2017 - Night Sailing, "Makom le Omanut" Gallery, TLV, Tel-Aviv, Curator: Shosh Averbuch
- 2016 – Lena and other animals, panoramas. With Oded Zaidel, Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv
- 2015 - Ghosts and Demons, The New Gallery, Jerusalem, Curator: Max Epstein
- 2015 - Beuys, Beuys, Beuys, Meshuna Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Curator: Liav Mizrahi
- 2012 - Fresh Paint-5, Contemporary Art Fair, Agripas12 Gallery, Tel Aviv
- 2012 - Jerusalem - Sacred and Profane, Stern Gallery, Curator: Debby Luzia
- 2011 - Fresh Paint-4, Contemporary Art Fair,Agripas 12 Gallery, Tel Aviv
- 2010 - "Wolf, Wolf!" - Beit Kener, Rishon le Zion, Curator : Efi Gen (Catalogue)
- 2010- Fresh Paint, 3, Contemporary Art Fair, Agripas 12 gallery, Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv
- 2010 - Four Walls, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem Curator: Lena Zaidel
- 2010 - Traces IV, Biennale for Drawing in Israel, The Jerusalem Artists´ House, Chief Curator: Tamar Manor Friedman (Catalogue)
- 2008 - Antea Darom, Kaye College of Education, Beer Sheva, Curators : Rita Mendes-Flohr, Nomi Tannhauser
- 2008 - Manofim Project, Broken Phone, Jerusalem Artists’ Studios
- 2008 - Manofim Project, Edges ,The New Gallery, Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem, Curator : Yosi Davara, (Catalogue)
- 2008 - Jerusalem - Surface Fractures, The Jerusalem Artists ´House, Curators : Israel Hadany, Zvi Tolkovsky, Hedva Shemesh (Catalogue)
- 2007 - The Desert Generation, The Jerusalem Artists´ House, The Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Organizers : Larry Abramson, David Tartakover, Suleiman Manzur, David Reeb
- 2007 - Traces - III , The Third Biennale for Drawing in Israel, The Jerusalem Artists´ House, Chief Curator: Dalia Manor (Catalogue)
- 2007 - The Alchemists, The New Gallery, Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem, Curator : Shosh Averbuch, (Catalogue)
- 2005 - Traces - II , The Second Biennale for Drawing in Israel, The Jerusalem Artists´ House, Curator: Dror Burstein (Catalogue)
- 2004 - Place for Contemporary Art, Hi-Touch Gallery, Herzliya. Curator: Daphna Naor
- 2004 - International Biennale of Drawing, IV, Pilsen, Czech Republic (Catalogue)
- 1995 - Sights of Poetry, Jerusalem Artists’ House
- 1982 - From Symbol to Technology, Leviathan Group, Jerusalem Theatre. Curator: Mikhail Grobman (Catalogue)
special projects[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
2016 - Translation of Michael Gandalev's poems from Russian to Hebrew "In the Gardens of Allah", edited by Oded Zaidel (Tel Aviv: Keshev La’Shira Publishing House)
2015 - Outdoor sculpture: Wolves of the Branches, 2015, courtyard of the Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem
2014 - Public art: "Dome of the Rock 6 and 7", Public art project "Art Comes Out", Zion Square, Jerusalem, and Judean Desert. Initiated and curated by Leonid Ziger
2013 - Publication of Mikhail Grubman´s poems in Hebrew, "Liberty Arrives Naked," Translated by Lena Zaidel, (Tel Aviv: Keshev La’Shira Publishing House)
2012 - Animation film for Mikhail Gendelev´s poem
External Links[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
- Lena Zaidel’s website: https://www.lenazaidel.co.il
- Lena Zidel on the Israel Museum website.
- "Yehoshua Burkovsky and Lena Zidel are the winners of Ish Shalom Prize" - Erab Rav magazine
- Gideon Ofrat, ”Riddle of the Wolves”
- Street Wolves,” Jerusalem Artists' House website
- Street Wolves,” art-in-process" website
- On Mikhail Grobman’s book, Liberty Arrives Naked: Daniel Oz, “Why did you become mocked? On “Liberty Arrives Naked,” Yekum Tarbut [Culture], May 27, 2013
- Oded Zaidel and Lena Zaidel, Jerusalem Panoramas, Achbar Ha’ir [City Mouse] website
- Ereb Rav magazine, “Drawing cities”
- Four Walls,”art-in-process" website.
References[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
1. ^ Lena Zaidel, on the Jerusalem Artists’ House website, www.art.org.il
2. ^ Daniel Oz, “Why did you become mocked? On “Liberty Arrives Naked,” Yekum Tarbut [Culture], May 27, 2013.תבנית:Reflist [[קטגוריה:People from Jerusalem]] [[קטגוריה:Israeli painters]] [[קטגוריה:Israeli women painters]] [[קטגוריה:Soviet emigrants to Israel]] [[קטגוריה:Wikipedia categories tracking data same as Wikidata]]