ISSN 2280-8817 ISRAEL year i number 0 summer 2015 trilingual BIMESTRALE - POSTE ITALIANE S.P.A. SPED. IN A.P. 70% - ROMA - COPIA EURO 0,001 - COPIA 70% - ROMA A.P. SPED. IN S.P.A. BIMESTRALE - POSTE ITALIANE INSIDE VENICE BIENNALE: DESIGN MUSEUM EXPO2015 INTERVIEW WITH TSIBI GEVA HOLON ISRAEL ALL ISRAEL: COLORFOOD THE ART MAP OVER THE WORLD Ucio culturale Ambasciata di Israele - Roma pagina artribune MARGUTTA Arcimboldo copia.pdf 1 16/04/15 08:54 “Our bodies “I nostri corpi Libera interpretazione di "Flora" Giuseppe ARCIMBOLDO Libera interpretazione are our gardens” sono i nostri giardini” William Shakespeare C M Y CM The MY natural CY CMY K choice Open your vegetarian art restaurant franchise i l a v M e t 9 g t 7 et u 19 a a g r r ia ce n food & art sin ilmargutta.com pagina artribune MARGUTTA Arcimboldo copia.pdf 1 16/04/15 08:54 “Our bodies “I nostri corpi Libera interpretazione di "Flora" Giuseppe ARCIMBOLDO Libera interpretazione are our gardens” sono i nostri giardini” William Shakespeare C M Y CM The MY natural CY CMY K choice Open your vegetarian art restaurant franchise i l a v M e t 9 g t 7 et u 19 a a g r r ia ce n food & art sin ilmargutta.com zero issue www.artribune.com director Massimiliano Tonelli vice-director Architecture, eco-sustainability, the fields of Marco Enrico Giacomelli tomorrow. The focus dedicated to Expo 2015 and to the Israeli Pavilion begins with the editor in chief Giorgia Calò words of the journalist Daniel Reichel… news editing & project management Santa Nastro contributors Christian Caliandro Elazar Cohen 10 Raphael Gamzou Hadas Maor Santa Nastro Daniel Reichel Ronit Sorek Aldo Spinelli Carlo Spinelli Art to eat. History of food (in Arianna Testino Israel), of its relationship with Giulia Zappa art and other aspects. An graphic design overview of “edible” artworks Alessandro Naldi from Futurism to Giuseppe Stampone. translations Christian Caliandro Sarah Kaminski referees - honour committee Galia Bar Or Marisa Fox Bevilacqua Martina Corgnati 18 Ruti Direktor Galit Gaon Drorit Gur Arie Avi Lubin Aya Lurie Hadas Maor Hadas Maor leads you in the curatorial Edna Moshenson concept behind Tsibi Geva’s exhibition. Alfredo Pirri Raffaella Sciarretta The Biennale focus, “inside the Pavilion”, Ronit Sorek continues. Artribune Israel - Issue Zero is published with the support of Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs 23 Israel Pavilion Expo Milano 2015 Ucio culturale Ambasciata di Israele - Roma Embassy of Israel – Cultural Department cover Tsibi Geva, Archeology of the Present, The Israeli Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition Already famous all over the world, la Biennale di Venezia, 2015. Israeli design has also a museum. In Photo: Elad Sarig Holon, near Tel Aviv, it is “big and published by Artribune srl strong”. Giulia Zappa writes about it. via Ottavio Gasparri 13/17 00152 Roma - Italy [email protected] printed by CSQ - Centro Stampa Quotidiani via dell’Industria 52 25030 Erbusco (BS) - Italy direttore responsabile Marco Enrico Giacomelli for advertising and subscription 28 [email protected] …while Elazar Cohen, Commissioner of the Israeli Pavilion at Expo 2015, explains its contents and its political and international dimension in an interview by Giorgia 12 Calò. 14 The difference between food and fashion? You can’t eat the models and food doesn’t need to wee-wee every five minutes. Dan Lev’s words, in this chat with Giorgia Calò. Tsibi Geva, the artist representing the Israli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, tells about himself and his work in an interview by Giorgia Calò. 20 Christian Caliandro guides us in a Israeli tour, searching for art spaces. Among Museums, public and private institutions, galleries and non-profit spaces, with a map of Israeli art. 26 The whole art agenda, with prizes and exhibitions in Israel, in Italy and all over the world. Arianna 30 Testino traces the route of the next season. Some of his artworks based on iconic images from Israeli culture: Gal Weinstein is an artists constantly trying to stay as curious as possible. Working without distinction with installation, sculpure, and video. An interview by Santa Nastro… 34 am happy to present this new publishing project that sees, once again, the col- laboration between Italy and Israel. Artribune, the famous Italian free press dedicated to the contemporary art with its many aspects from visual arts to design, from architecture to cinema, from fashion to food, laun- ches today this new, ambitious project. It is the Israeli version of Artribune that will have the same modalities of distribution, page GAMZOU layout and content management of the original magazine, but with a look on the Israeli RAPHAEL artistic and creative scenario. Indeed, Artribune Israel is a magazine of contemporary art and culture that tells the vibrant scene of Israel, paying attention both to what happens in the country and to the experiences that bring the Israeli creativity throughout the world. Which best occasion to present the pilot number of the magazine than the two international showcases of Milan EXPO 2015 and of the Venice Biennale, hosting the respective Israeli Pavilions? In this way, an international cooperation starts, that launches the free press at the same time in Italy and in Israel, hoping that this could become a fundamental vehicle for the communication of the exciting cultural scene that the country is currently living. For these reasons the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sustained the project and its authors from the very beginning, wishing them good luck for the realization of this mission. AMBASSADOR DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL HEAD OF THE DIVISION FOR CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS ISRAEL MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS 6 EDITORIAL he Israeli Pavilion joins the most advanced technologies to thousand-year old traditions, celebrating the research spirit and the curiosity of Israeli people. The Pavilion’s logo is inspired to the prayer for the Peace and the Justice in the Psalm of King David (Psalm 85-12) and reflects through a graphic interpretation of the word "the key concepts, the colors and the creative energy of a people that made the desert flourish: Truth (אמת) ”truth“ springs from the earth and righteousness looks down from heaven." Only the one who searches and spreads the truth will see the fruit of his success. The concept of the search for COHEN truth is deep-rooted in the Hebrew culture and is expressed in the study of the Torah. Thanks to the values, to the ELAZAR teachings and to the study method of the sacred texts the Israeli society was able to discuss and interrogate reality with the aim of innovating and advancing. In this way, the Start Up Nation is born. ,emet) is composed by the first letter of the alphabet, Alef, by the central one-אמת) ”In Hebrew, the word “truth Mem, and by the last one, Tav: this gives an important significance to the alphabet itself. But this is not the only concept of our history connected to the themes of Expo 2015. According to the Jewish tradition, every seven years the fields have to rest: it is prohibited to plant, cultivate, reap the sabbatical year of the soils of ,(שמיטה) or pick fruits, in order to let the nature restoring its rhythms. The schmita Israel that falls this year is an example of how the Jewish culture has always been careful to the farming sustaina- bility. It is truly symbolic that the schmita Expo 2015 coincides with the responsible message promoted by Expo. Besides, we remember that the Jewish agriculture tradition imposes to dedicate a portion of soil at the edges of the fields to the poors: the concept of donation Tzdaka( ) has not to be an end in itself but strictly connected to the justice (Tzedek), the justice of an altruist and open economy and society. It is with this spirit of sharing, justice and truth that in Expo 2015 the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs and the Israeli Goverment make available the results of the technological and scientific research. To let prosperate the fields of tomorrow, for a better future. From Israel, at the service of manking. GENERAL COMMISSIONER ISRAELI PAVILION – EXPO MILAN 2015 EDITORIAL 7 am proud of presenting this new publishing project signed by Artribune. A challeng- ing work that had a long time of gestation, if we think that the first meeting about it between me and Massimiliano Tonelli was in 2012. Three years have passed, the necessary time to structure CALÒ at its best a magazine that wants to talk to a country that is so complex in its multicultural and multidisciplinar dimension. GIORGIA Artribune Israel is born with the will to offer a transversal look at the great creative season that the country is living in the last years. The long-awaited presentation of the Israeli pavilions for the Milan EXPO 2015 and for the Venice Biennale, the prizes that confirmed the excellence of the Israeli authors in different fields – from literature to cinema, from exhibitions to the great events organized in foreign coun- tries that allowed the viewers to know artists and entire collections from the most important museums of the country, are only some of the treated topics. Indeed, this issue tells also about what happens in the nation, about the extraordinary excitement that involves museums, gal- leries, non-profit spaces and academies, within an art system able to present and represent the Israeli creativity in all its forms and aspects. This is the mission of Artribune Israel, a valid means to know new and differ- ent cultural and creative realities, with the witty attitude and the attentive gaze that characterize Artribune from its birth.