My wife and I visited the Tel-Aviv art museum today. They have an exhibit of contemporary art from India, and one of the pieces of sculpture is this: It is about 1.80 m tall, and is engraved all over with animal and monster figures. Here are some details: I forgot to take down the name of the artist. Yonadav
WOW!!! Too cool!!! Could you tell what material it was made of? Resin perhaps? I'd love to read the Artist's Statement for this piece! Thanks for sharing!
I've been praying several times a day for Israel and the IDF. I'll keep it up. My Son-in-Law is Jewish and he's been praying too. With the help of G-d all will come out well. Oh, and cool sculpture, too. Fun stuff. Gerry
They did not mention the material. It looks metallic, but could be most anything. Thanks for the concern over the events (actually war) here. For the time being, I am still out of rocket range from Gaza, but can't tell for how much longer. The southern part of Israel is under a constant barrage of rockets, aimed at cities and towns, not military installations. Today we had over 250 rockets (as of 9 PM) and counting. Some 100 of them were intercepted. Several people (young women, one child) were killed. Two rockets landed at the southern outskirts of Tel Aviv, but had not hit anything. I hope it comes to an end soon. Yonadav PS - I just started a separate topic in the lounge to discuss current events in Israel. Let's keep this thread for stove discussions.
Here's a link to an article on the exhibit in Tel Aviv for anyone interested. Click here. A wonderful exhibit from Israel called "Violins of Hope" had their North American debut in my city earlier this year. An excerpt from their website: "In 1996, Israeli master violinmaker Amnon Weinstein began to collect and carefully restore violins that had extraordinary histories of suffering, courage, and resiliency. These violins are precious artifacts from one of the greatest human tragedies. Some were played by Jewish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps; others belonged to the Klezmer musical culture, which was all but destroyed in the Holocaust. Today, Amnon receives visitors bearing priceless instruments in shambles. The restoration process is complex, sometimes taking years to revive a single instrument. But when a violinist moves his bow across one of these instruments, the message resounds." You can see the exhibit's website by clicking here. And there is a very good article on the exhibit here. The instruments were absolutely gorgeous!
That's a damn sight better than those knitted stoves that were on ebay a few years ago! Cheers, Graham.
