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Artist Statement:
I have looked to art as a
filtering mechanism, ever
since my childhood and my
emigration to Israel from
Croatia in 1948 with my mother
and sister. It is a filter on
the lens of life which allows
me to visualize, from a
distance, the pain,
destruction and suffering
of...
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Collections:
Queens Museum Permanent
Collection, Queens, New York,
USA
Sigmund Balka Collection, New
York, USA
Krasdale Foods, White Plains,
NY, USA
ACIC Corporate Collection,
Toronto, Canada
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Exhibitions for Tamar Hirschl:
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Contact:
Rachel Litcofsky: 212.824.2205
Hebrew Union College-JIR Museum
Tamar Hirschl: CULTURAL ALARM
September 19, 2006 – January 26, 2007
One West 4th Street (between Broadway and Mercer Street), Manhattan
Tamar Hirschl: Cultural Alarm, a fine art installation, awakens viewers to the dangers of human and environmental destruction. Hirschl’s artwork draws on her personal memories of war and displacement in Croatia and Israel. It conveys a universal warning challenging the viewer to acknowledge the unnatural separation of cultures, religions and societies that exists in the modern world. As well as illuminates the destructive effect that man’s “progress” has had on the animal kingdom, the natural world, and humanity itself.
Employing diverse techniques, materials and applications, Hirschl explores complex of emotional subjects. She substitutes vast surfaces of unframed vinyl for traditional stretched canvas, and expands the images so that these contemporary murals take on the scale of public billboards.
“Cultural Alarm grapples with the troubling idea that we, humankind, have become inured to tinkering with the balance of nature,” notes Laura Kruger, Curator. “The unimaginable scope and horror of the events that invest these works, the Holocaust, the World Trade Center attack, the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster, demand absolute attention on a grand scale.”
“Through her art, Tamar Hirschl reminds us that the chain of memory and humanistic values compel us to struggle for universal freedom, tolerance, justice, and human rights, says Jean Bloch Rosensaft, Director. “Her works speak to all who would help create a better world.”
Catalog and images available: please contact Rachel Litcofsky, 212-824-2205; rlitcofsky@huc.edu
Museum Hours: Mondays–Thursdays, 9 am-5 pm; Fridays, 9 am-3 pm; Selected Sundays, 10 am-2 pm, Sept. 11, 25; Oct. 16; Nov. 13; Dec. 11.
Information/Tours: (212) 824–2205 www.huc.edu/museum/ny
Admission: Free, Photo ID Required
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Queens Museum of Art
The Gift: Building a Collection for the Queens Museum of Art
November 20, 2005 – February 12, 2006
Tamar Hirschl will have several of her works featured in a new exhibition opening November 20 at the Queens Museum of Art (QMA) in Flushing Meadows, NY. Called “The Gift: Building a Collection for the Queens Museum of Art,” the show highlights recent gifts and acquisitions for the museum’s permanent collection.
Ms. Hirschl explores the fractured nature of world events and social issues through her large scale, mixed media works, which address the state of conflict using a pastiche of abstract expressionism and mass media images. Her mural, Fall (2003) expresses shock at the Columbia space shuttle disaster and her vision of an afterlife for the astronauts. Another, Cultural Alarms (2005), reflects the fragility of the global environment in the race to keep pace with population expansion and world hunger.
“The Gift” also features 16 of Tamar’s small drawings, and a painting, Storm I (1998), from the Museum’s permanent collection.
Valerie Smith, the QMA’s Director of Exhibitions, explained that she paired the work of Ms. Hirschl in this show with that of William Sharp, whose political drawings captured the rise of the Nazi regime, Cold War tensions and the drama of major trials including those of Alger Hiss and Lindbergh kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann. “The work of the two artists, while vastly different in style and separated by some 60 years of history, flow together naturally since both use visual images to express views on world politics, current events and social issues,” she said.
The past five years have brought with them a number of important acquisitions for the QMA, among them six important bodies of work, as well as remarkable contemporary pieces given by artists who have become in many ways, the Museum’s biggest supporters. These six major gifts have been a tremendous boon to the QMA’s collections, but so too have the many ambitious artists’ projects that have become the trademark of the Museum’s curatorial endeavor. The work shown here speaks volumes of these artists’ interest in assisting the Museum in building an important collection of contemporary work that addresses shifting trends in the international art community as well as the increasingly cosmopolitan dynamic of the borough of Queens.
Tamar Hirschl lives and works in New York. Her art has been shown in Israel and in several European cities, and she has participated in projects during the 51st Venice Biennale and the 9th International Istanbul Biennale. Tamar’s most recent solo exhibition was in 2004 at the Philadelphia Art Alliance. Her painting The Window was selected as the official poster of the 38th New York Film Festival.
The Queens Museum of Art is located in Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, adjacent to the Unisphere. The museum is open Wednesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and weekends from noon to 5 p.m. Suggested admission is $5 for adults and $2.50 for seniors and children. Information is at 718-592-9700 or online at www.queensmuseum.org
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WORK OF TAMAR HIRSCHL SELECTED FOR “WATERWAYS,” OFFICIAL INDEPENDENT PROJECT OF 9th ISTANBUL BIENNALE
Exhibit on a ferry touring the Bosphorus River Oct. 18 – 30, curated to call attention to increasing pollution of world’s water resources
Lead Curators & Producers: Renée Vara and Asli Sümer
Curatorial Advisors: Ethan Cohen, Paul Middendorf and Mary Mattingly
“Two Continents and Beyond: Waterways,” led by Renée Vara and Asli Sümer, is the second statement in a series of interventions. Recontextualized around the specific concerns of Turkey, the show repeats guerilla practices on the Bosphorus and investigates the iconic role of the Vapur (the local public ferries) as the nexus of the politics surrounding trade, commerce and environmental resources.
Waterways: what began as a collective happening during the 2005 Venice Biennale now returns as an Official Independent Project of the 9th Istanbul Biennale. This collaborative group of over 30 artists and 7 curators initiated a critical dialogue regarding the relationship between the environment, natural resources and its role in systems of transportation.
The show, installed on one of Istanbul’s largest vapurs, the Aykut Barka, will sail between the historic ports of Besiktas on the European coast and Uskudar on the Asian. The ride provides a conscious pause to actively engage and explore the complex dynamic inherent in the systems of politics and international exchange as it relates to environmental conservation and global warming.
This collaboration of artists and curators represent a collective commentary on such issues and wrestles with the utopian ideal embodied in closed systems and international exchanges of divergent viewpoints.
Press & Opening Reception: October 18th, 6PM at Kabatash Port
Opening VIP and Press Party: October 18th @ 9PM
artSumer Gallery
1.cadde No:62 Arnavutkoy 34345 Istanbul
Tel : 90-212-263-5623, http://www.artsumer.com
RSVP: rsvp@varaart.com
Further information and press images:
Renée Vara, T (001-921-1708), info@varaart.com
Asli Sümer, T (001-90-212-263-5623), info@artsumer.com
Further information regarding Waterways collective:
and http://www.waterways2005.blogspot.com
This project was realized in cooperation with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and I.D.O.
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