Sat 8 July 2023 | 8:00 pm - 11:45 pm
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The question “What’s up, man?” is one of the most accepted greetings of peace in the daily Israeli male space; She radiates care, empathy, a desire for male closeness. The tone in which the question is asked hints at what is to come – is this a friendly meeting? Is it just before violence flares up?
Creative energy changes with age. In the twenties it is strong and erupts, and over the years it changes its shape and becomes softer. The group exhibition came to explore the creative space, what motivates the desire to create and whether this energy changes with age. Curating and a work of art is a personal process that comes from the body and returns to the body and always from a personal point of view related to the physical and mental processes that the artist/curator goes through. The choice to work specifically with men stems from a desire to explore internal processes that I as a man go through and to examine whether other artists experience similar processes. The exhibition allows a direct look at various shows of aggressiveness and violence that are probably an integral part of the male space. The exhibition is not only a celebration of a pleasant and safe male space, it also brings to light the less pleasant sides of the male space: violence, voyeurism, forcefulness, humiliation, with the thought that any violent action necessarily harms the perpetrator of the action as well. The masculine space is a space of codes that pass from father to son, I learn from my father how to be a man, what role he plays and how he behaves in the world. I form relationships with this father figure. The figure of the father moves around the exhibition, as if watching his son grow up and occupy a new place in space.
In recent years, the practice of men’s circles has developed – a closed space where men can share with each other the things that occupy them. It is a safe space of identification, of dismantling and rebuilding values such as friendship, achievement and sexuality, of dealing with crises and of finding the right way to live as a man in the 21st century. The exhibition creates a kind of men’s circle, which makes it possible to be a man – for the various challenges involved. Viewing the exhibition as a circle of men invites the viewer to glimpse the complex world of masculinity today. It is not a longing for a male world that has disappeared or a forceful move that seeks to appropriate or return something that has been lost, but rather an understanding that masculinity seeks a new place under the sun. Masculinity seeks to be enlightened and inclusive, to reexamine itself, to be more than we think it can be. The artworks in the exhibition can be read as a hidden script, through which one can begin to understand what that elusive new masculinity is and how it changes during life. The age range of those exhibiting in the exhibition is very wide, from artists in their twenties to artists who are no longer with us, and the works on display were created in different periods, the earliest were created in the late 90s and the newest were created especially for the exhibition.
Participating artists: Guy Bernard Reichman, Yonathan Ron, Ziv Ben Dov, Lior Shavil, Soren Dahlgerard, Tamir Zadok, Avner Finchover, Uri Lipshitz, Shivtz Cohen, Gabi Krichli
Curator: Meir Tati
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