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drawing on Bettina's plates

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:30:38 +0200

photo by Nagi Ademet

One of the biggest pleasures for me is a collaboration with talented artists in other fields. I importune many of my friends with «Let’s do something cool together», and sometimes it works out. Recently I made a collaboration project with a swiss ceramic artist Bettina Ammann.

We met at her studio, where Bettina has already prepared few beautiful simple bowls:

While Bettina prepares the glaze, I’m observing the studio.

It’s always interesting, to see other people’s workplaces.

Some objects look strange and inspiring:

Now it is my turn to work. I never worked neither with glaze, nor with a ceramic pencil… I try to do my best, but it doesn’t behave as I expected! However, the process is very exciting.

Bettina makes some final touches with transparent glaze:

And this is what we finally have.
From now on all the photos are made by Nagi Ademet:

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art process
collaboration
my friends

two new works in red series

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:21:30 +0200

taking vitamins

el amor si existe

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my art

inspiration: chinese photographer Di Liu

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:05 +0200

I fond this interesting photographer today in Designboom. The article says: «25 year old chinese photographer, di liu has been awarded the 2010 lacoste elyse prize.»

There is something very hm, I don’t know… human? and touching in this obese lonely animals in dirty urban backgrounds, right?

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inspiration

opening of "Butterflies in the Stomach"

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:08:42 +0200

Today it was an opening of the group exhibition «Butterflies in the Stomach» in Holon. Thanks for everybody who came! For those who could not make it, I really recommend you to have a look there, and not only because of my works :) I should admit that I enjoyed the opening much more than expected. First, many people have come, and among them my friends

Even children enjoy the exhibition

Second, as my friend Marina said, «It wasn’t boring» — the variety of works was interesting, very different with materials and formats, but yet connected by a concept: they all more or less deal with readymade or recycling. Some of the works that catched my eye:

and there have been many more, I just forgot to take a photo!

I even liked how my own works look on the wall (sometimes when there is not enough light, my works look sad and gloomy)

Then I get a phone call, that my family is on the way to the opening, including my mom (for the first time ever)! What a nice surprize. And what a pity the gallery is already closing :) They come at the last moment, and not really bothered that everybody else has gone.

Later, Michelle and me were reading the curator’s word (Yehudit Mazkel). about the exhibition and artists. It was interesting.

p.s. And the design of the exhibition booklet is very beautiful — who made it?

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exhibitions
my_life

"butterflies in the stomach" 19.11 - 7.1.12

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:35:10 +0200

«Butterflies in the Stomach» is a name of a group exhibition I’m taking a part in with my blue spaghetti series.

You can meet me in the opening:
Saturday 19.11.2011, 11:00
Meirov House, Herzfield st. 31, Holon
(the art gallery of Holon Design Museum).

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exhibitions

IN RED: too much fun

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:18:31 +0200

new work

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my art

few pictures from my short trip to Brussels and Paris

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:54:23 +0200

with my friend Karin Kails.
music by one of my favorite French singers Syrano

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inspiration
my friends
my_life
streetart
travel
urban

the Affordable Art Fair, London

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:39:21 +0200

If by chance you are at London this weekend, I invite you to The Affordable Art Fair.
As the organizers promise, «you don’t need to be an art expert or a millionaire to enjoy and buy art.» The Contempop gallery will has there (at Buttersea) 12 of my works (including the masks series and the last transparent ones).

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exhibitions

one nice sunny day

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:13:37 +0200

My daughter Michelle is a perfect company for drawing in a cafe. First of all, she is a very patient model.

Second, she entertains me with tales about princesses and crocodiles.

The next day we came to the same place all the family, and my spouse discovered now he has already three of us drawing in our sketchbooks.

The White Page. What to draw?

When we finally left our favorite cafe, we had one of these nice Tel Aviv days.

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children
inspiration
life in tel aviv
michelle
my_life
romy
sketchbooks
sketches
urban

something new: transparency and layers

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:19:00 +0200

I’m exploring two levels transparent framing. These two works go in October to Affordable Art Fair in UK (with 9 more).

I named this picture: «Why?»

and this one: «A tea before»

In the middle of the process:

and some more mushrooms are waiting for better days:

Btw, I read a cool article about intelligence of mushrooms (in Hebrew). It seems that they are definitely more complicate and mysterious creatures than I imagined.

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art process
my art
transparency