Co-organized by Israel General Consulate Guangzhou and Redtory Culture & Art Organization, the exhibition "Imagined Landscapes" from July 1 to August 24 displays the Israel which lies in the heart of the artist, Aharon Gluska.
"Imagined Landscapes” is an exhibition to show the series of art works of the Israel contemporary artist Aharon Gluska. In 1970s, Gluska immigrated to America, where he was deeply influenced by the American Abstract Expressionist movement. Therefore, he hoped to find a new technique as well as a new method to reproduce his childhood landscape. Nevertheless, the Israel in his artworks is not the concrete pictures or shapes as usual---it is an expression of his childhood memory hidden deeply in his heart; and it is an unrecognizable landscape painting, which is imagined based on his memory.
以色列驻广州总领事安亚杰先生在开幕式为展览致辞：“当我站在这个被以色列沙漠为题材的艺术作品所包围的现场之时，我甚至能够听到风吹过的声音，我们可以想象到沙漠是很长的，这些画作看起来像照片，但其实不是的。这些都是哈龙·格罗斯卡通过多年以来的实验，运用自己发明的新技术创作出的作品，现在也是唯一一个运用这个技术的，这种创作技术令我感到十分惊讶，我甚至问艺术家是否为这一技术申请了专利，但是他没有，大家也可以自己尝试一下。其实沙漠是以色列犹太特征和历史的重要组成部分，四千多年前，十二名使者离开埃及，经过40年的时间行走在沙漠地带才到达以色列这片土地，领导者摩西的兄弟和我们的艺术家有着相似的名字，也叫艾哈龙。当我近看这些作品的时候，我总能想象到白天沙漠的干燥和炽热，日落后的平静和冰冷，还有我们家乡以色列的温暖。”
红专厂艺术总监黄丽诗在开幕式上发言：“格罗斯卡先生用他特有的艺术语言，特殊的媒材和特别的形式把我们带到遥远的国度以色列，通过艺术家的引领，我们能够体验到天空的张力，旷野的温度和沙漠的能量，相信此次展览将给大家带来的是一段既熟悉又陌生，既开放又深邃的艺术之旅。众所周知，以色列具有古老的文化传统，在当代艺术的进程之中，传统又得到了很好的凝聚、梳理和重新焕发，我们只有敞开心灵，回望历史，提炼记忆，我们才能真正地确认文化的认同和身份的认同，从此为彼此的交流建立根基，这也是红专厂作为艺术区一直以来希望发挥的功能”。
By the curator Yaniv Shapira, the exhibition is going to display the unique and unusual Israel to the visitors, while at the same time to show the deep impact from the combination of contemporary art and landscape expression. The artist as well as the curator will come to Redtory to share with us their experience concerning art and creation.
策展人雅尼夫·沙比拉在开幕式上发言：“通过这次展览我学会了很多的东西，中国是一个有着悠久历史和文化的国家，选择将以色列的艺术作品带来是一个很大的挑战。尤其是风景画，创作者更需要寻找到属于自己的创作特色，格罗斯卡的艺术创作就融入了自己对风景画的向往。”
策展人雅尼夫表示，格罗斯卡的风景作品不全是以色列风景，他是通过他儿时对以色列土地的印象还有通过他自己的想象创作出这些作品。以色列每年都大致会有一次大风暴。这场大风暴过后，雨水会把这块沙漠土地洗刷一遍，那时的景象就像格罗斯卡的作品中所展示的原始自然的状况。
在展览开幕的前一天，策展人与艺术家在红专厂C1艺术馆进行了以色列风景画专题讲座。策展人雅尼夫·沙比拉向大家介绍了以色列风景画发展历史，艺术家艾哈龙·格罗斯卡则分享了他的创作手法和理念。
时间：2014年7月1日至2014年8月24日
地点：广州红专厂艺术设计工厂 C1艺术家：艾哈龙·格罗策展人：雅尼夫·沙比拉主办方：以色列驻广州总领事馆 红专厂文化艺术机构
By the curator Yaniv Shapira, the exhibition is going to display the unique and unusual Israel to the visitors, while at the same time to show the deep impact from the combination of contemporary art and landscape expression. The artist as well as the curator will come to Redtory to share with us their experience concerning art and creation. By the curator Yaniv Shapira, the exhibition is going to display the unique and unusual Israel to the visitors, while at the same time to show the deep impact from the combination of contemporary art and landscape expression. The artist as well as the curator will come to Redtory to share with us their experience concerning art and creation.
By the curator Yaniv Shapira, the exhibition is going to display the unique and unusual Israel to the visitors, while at the same time to show the deep impact from the combination of contemporary art and landscape expression. The artist as well as the curator will come to Redtory to share with us their experience concerning art and creation.
Aharon Gluska Solo Exhibitions (since 2004):
2013 Trierweiler Contemporary Gallery, Weimar, Germany
2012 Total Art/Courtyard Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2011 Rivera Gallery, West Hollywood, CA, USA
2010 Schueppenhauer Gallery, Koln, Germany
Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009 Total Art/ Courtyard Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2005 Florida Holocaust Museum, Tampa, FL, USA
2004 Carole Rubenstein Associates – Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (since 2004)
2012 Total Art/Courtyard Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2011 Rivera Gallery “Anthrophysis” West Hollywood, CA, USA
2010 Schueppenhauer Gallery, Koln Germany
Galeria de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art Affaires, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009 Total Art/Courtyard, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2007 Mana Fine Arts Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, USA
2005 Yad Vashem Museum “Etched Voices” Jerusalem, Israel
About Yaniv Shapira
Yaniv Shapira was born in Israel (1967). He studied Art History and Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Since 1995 he has been serving as a curator at the Museum of Art, Ein Harod, where he has curated numerous art exhibitions. He has been the Director and the Curator of "The Kibbutz Gallery" in Tel Aviv for five years and a guest curator at several other museums and galleries in Israel and abroad. Shapira is currently completing his doctoral dissertation which deals with sense of Place, of Belonging and of Identity in Israeli Art.
Duration: July 1 - August 24, 2014
Venue: C1, Redtory
Add.: No.128, Yuancun Si Henglu, Tianhe District, Guangzhou