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Newsletter B 10.9.Indd Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem P.P. שולם Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design 1886 Mount Scopus ירושלים POB 24046 Jerusalem Jerusalem 91240 Israel Boris Schatz, 1918 Rosh Hashana 2006 / 5767 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem ISSUE # 1 SpecialSpecial ccentenaryentenary eeditiondition I (we) would like to make a tax-deductible contribution of _________ to the Friends of Bezalel in honor of the 100th Anniversary. Name _________________________________ Address ________________________________ City __________________________________ State ________________________________ Zip ___________________________________ Phone ___________________________________ Fax ___________________________________ Email _________________________________ Please make checks payable to Friends of Bezalel or complete the following: Visa/Master card# __________________ Exp. Date _________________________ Signature ________________________ Friends of Bezalel 501 Fifth Avenue, Suite 909 New York N.Y. 10017 212 687 0542 [email protected] Editor: Liv Sperber Design: Roy Figovsky Design Studio Writers: Nava Levi & Liv Sperber Photographs: Bezalel Academy Archive With special thanks to: Smadar Shapira, Hadas Blum, Prof. Nachum Tevet, Jennifer Roth and Marion Hauser. Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem Tel: +972 2 589 3304 Fax: +972 2 582 3094 Email: [email protected] Website: www.bezalel.ac.il Greetings from our President “I am proud to present you with our first Bezalel Bulletin.” he 2005-6 academic year will come to a close on 30th September. This year Thas been a very special time in the life of Bezalel - our Centenary. I feel this is a perfect opportunity for us to share with our friends throughout the world some of the events of this unique year, and hence I am proud to present you with our first Bezalel Bulletin. I hope that this new publication will provide you with an insight to the Bezalel Academy’s recent activities and will serve as a direct form of communication between us and our much valued Friends. I would like to share two developments with you that will be affecting our future. The first is the inauguration of the historic site of Bezalel in the centre of Jerusalem which will be the home of our Department of Architecture. The inauguration ceremony will take place on October 18th 2006, and of course you are all invited to partake in the festivities. The restoration and rebuilding of the historic site could not have been achieved without the kind help of our friends from abroad - our long standing friend and supporter, “Yakir Bezalel” – Honorary Fellow of Bezalel 2006, Dr. Marcella Brenner, from Washington DC, Ari and Sabby Mionis of Greece, Milla, David , Susan and Rebecca Gradel from the UK, the Abramson Family from New York, and the Libby Mohel Estate, Lakewood, New Jersey. The second development is our plan to return the entire Bezalel Academy from Mount Scopus to the center of Jerusalem. On 1st September we announced an international competition for architects to plan the future Bezalel campus on its new site - the Russian Compound in the very heart of Jerusalem (www. bezalel-competition.org.il). In the midst of our 100 year anniversary this is a very ambitious and demanding project. Our decision to relocate to the centre of Jerusalem is based on three main issues. Firstly, we believe that an Academy of Arts and Design should be connected to the pulse of an urban immediate environment providing interaction between the students and faculty with the public. Secondly, our current building is very user unfriendly, and has reached maximum capacity not enabling us to undergo any further growth or development. Thirdly, we believe that Bezalel in the city will be a major contribution to the strength and revival of the center of Jerusalem. The financial scope of the project is $60 million which we hope to raise through selling our building on Mount Scopus, some government assistance, and donations from our Friends around the world. As we embark upon this exciting journey, looking forward to our next 100 years of creativity in art, design and architecture, may I thank you for your interest and support, and wish you all a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous and Peaceful New Year – Shana Tova. Professor Arnon Zuckerman President Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem Bezalel 100 Year Celebrations at The Israel Museum Jerusalem ...equipped to deal with new challenges and ready to guide the world of art and design. he Government called the official opening of Professor Arnon Zuckerman, President of Bezalel, also TBezalel’s centennial celebration on January 4, looking forward to Bezalel’s continued achievements, 2006, “a national event”. The opening ceremony was quoted in The Jerusalem Post on 4.01.06: held at The Israel Museum was attended by several “Alongside preserving the tradition of Bezalel we dignitaries including H.E. President of the State of will lead the Academy into the twenty first century Israel, Moshe Katsav and Mrs. Gila Katsav, Vice Prime equipped to deal with new challenges, and ready to Minister, Ehud Olmert, and Mayor of Jerusalem, Mr. guide the world of art and design, both in our local Uri Lupolianski. sphere and across the globe.” The ceremony opened the main centenary exhibition, Boris Schatz: The Father of Israeli Art, a retrospective exhibition celebrating the life work of Boris Schatz (1867-1932), founder of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem in 1906 and of the National Bezalel Museum, forerunner to the Israel Museum. Over seventy paintings, sculptures, and historical documents - including works that had never been exhibited publicly, such as a handwritten draft of the Balfour Declaration - traced Schatz’s achievements from the beginning of his career in Europe through his role in shaping the first chapter of modern Israeli art history. “Boris Schatz was a visionary whose goal was to establish, in Jerusalem, a cultural center for the birth of a new Hebraic art... Established in 1906, the Bezalel Academy gathered students from near and far, from the budding Zionist settlements and from the Jewish Diaspora, and continues to this day to promote Schatz’s legacy and beliefs,” said Yigal Zalmona, the Israel Museum’s Chief Curator and curator of the exhibition. 2 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem Rosh Hashana 2006 ISSUE # 1 Opposite page Top: From left: Mr. Aharon Dovrat - Chairman of our Board of Governors, Prof. Arnon Zuckerman, Mrs. Gila Katsav, Mr. Moshe Katsav, Mr. Uri Lupolianski, Mr. Ehud Olmert Bottom: From left: Prof. Arnon Zuckerman, Mr. Charles Bronfman, Mr. James Snyder Above: Silversmithing Department, 1910 3 “Solos: New Design From Israel” at Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum he Bezalel Academy’s centennial celebrations materials, such as designer Tal Gur’s chair made of Twere also marked at the Cooper-Hewitt National plastic drinking straws that had been fused together Design Museum on January 25, 2006, with a cocktail with heat. reception and the opening of Solos: New Design from Though some of the exhibition objects are in mass Israel, the first museum exhibition of contemporary production, most are one-of or small batch pieces Israeli design in the United States. created to foster reflection on the design process. The Solos: New Design from Israel, focused on works contrast between materials was often highlighted, by graduates of Bezalel’s Department of Industrial instead of hidden, and elements were juxtaposed Design. It featured more than two-dozen prototypes, in a frank, even abrupt manner. This material experimental objects and duality was revealed in objects production pieces conceived and such as stools designed by Raviv created by designers who live and Lifshitz that consist of inflated work in Israel. The exhibition beach balls enclosed within wire was on view January 27 through structures. Themes of rupture and April 23, 2006, in Cooper-Hewitt’s discontinuity are also present in new ground-floor gallery. The many of the designs, including a set exhibition was organized by guest of ceramic mugs by Yuval Tal whose curator Ezri Tarazi, head of the handles have been broken off and industrial design graduate program then re-attached through blatantly at Bezalel, and Ellen Lupton, mechanical means. Many of the curator of contemporary design at objects in the exhibition displayed Cooper-Hewitt. a rough, unfinished character that The objects presented in the provoked conceptual questions exhibition, ranged from bookshelves about how everyday objects are to chairs to lighting fixtures, eliciting made and used. An installation by a discourse on the sculptural, material, functional Tarazi consisted of furniture that unfolds out of its and conceptual possibilities of useful things. They own shipping crates, commenting on the itinerant also provided insight into the relationship between nature of museum exhibitions as well as life in a designer and manufacturer. Though Israel supports global society. high-tech industry, there are few businesses in A heartfelt thanks go to the sponsors of the exhibition the region that manufacture household goods and -- Connie and Harvey M. Krueger, Myrna and Isaac furniture. The designers featured in Solos: New Design Kaye and Barbara and Morton Mandel, and to Dr. from Israel addressed this constraint by constructing Marcella Brenner and The Polonsky Foundation for domestic objects from locally sourced, everyday assisting with the publication of the catalogue. Top: Prof. Ezri Tarazi, Industrial Design Middle: Raviv Lifshitz, Industrial Design Bottom: Tal Gur, Industrial Design 4 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem RoshRosh HashanaHashana 20062006 ISSUEISSUE # 1 “Solos: New Design From Israel” at Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum the first museum exhibition of contemporary Israeli art in the United States Top: Arye Mekel - General Consul of Israel in NY (center), with Jennifer Roth - President of NY Friends of Bezalel, and Prof. Arnon Zuck- erman Middle Row: Pini Leibovich, Industrial Design • Prof. Ezri Tarazi (on left), with Prof. Ron Arad • View of Exhibition Bottom Row: Tal Gur, Industrial Design • Dr.
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