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Artist Statement -



My art is a private perspective on life, private pains and
disappointments, society, Death and a philosophical look at life.
Death is the source for creation and the motor of life.
Crucifixion a symbol for pain, pain caused by social, political and
religious systems.



I think that art is another way to communicate, to express my ideas , for me art should have a message of a sort.
This is the way I saw art when I was a little boy trying to express his Ideas with simple drawings, and this is the way I see art when working on my digital art or writing poetry today. Some times I ask myself, if we can reach people through "reason"! but I think its better to get to people's hearts through emotions, through ART, and from there we might get to their reason. Or maybe use extremes in art - and that is what I usually try - in order to make people think and ponder after their emotions become tens. Then their analyses might bring with it reasoning.


Artist Exhibitions



Solo Exhibition
1997 - A Look Inside, Gallery Center, Nazareth, Israel
1999 - Life and Death, Art Gallery, Umm Elfahem, Israel
1999 - Life and Death, Gallery Center, Nazareth, Israel

Group Exhibition
1996 - Opening Exhibition, West Galilee Art Gallery, Acre, Israel
1998 - Earth, Art Gallery, Umm Elfahem, Israel
1998 - Arabic calligraphy, the Land of Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
1998 - Arabic Artists, Gallery Center, Nazareth, Israel
1999 - Arabic Artists, Art Gallery, Umm Elfahem, Israel
1999 - Arabic Calligraphy, Bet-Hagfen Gallery, Haifa, Israel
1999 - MAC 21 INTERNATIONAL Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Center Sur, Malaga, Spain
2000 - The International Contemporary Art Fair of Art Galleries, Recinto Ferial, Marbella, Spain
2000 - More than a Letter, Kage College Gallery, Bear-Sheva, Israel
2001 - The International Contemporary Art Fair of Art Galleries, Recinto Ferial, Costa del Sol, Spain
2001 - Pixxelpoint 2001 - International Computer Art Festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2002 - MAC 21International Contemporary Art Fair of Art Galleries, Recinto Ferial, Costa del Sol, Spain
2002 - Pixxelpoint 2002 - International Computer Art Festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2003 - MAC 21 International Contemporary Art Fair of Art Galleries, Marbella , Costa del Sol, Spain
2004 - 26th International Hollfeld Art Exhibition - Minimal Art, Hollfeld, Germany
2005 After Hiroshima: Nuclear Imaginaries, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK...

Artist Publications



Analyses by Dr. Edward Badeen, Basel, Switzerland

In this work of art called “The Sons of Eilaboun” one can see several factors working on the viewer – not necessarily all these factors are consciously aimed at by the artist himself while at work.

To the upper left we see the wide-awake blood weeping face, which represents an ever awake and vivid memory of the massacre of Eilaboun, when this village in Galilee has been bereaved of its 16 innocent unarmed civilian villagers on the 30 of October 1948.

The stone plate could stand for that of the Ten Commandments, in which it says: You shall not kill! The Israeli soldiers trespassed against this commandment, when they killed the above mentioned youngsters in cold blood!

In the Arabic text it says: The olive trees screamed when our life was torn apart! Why the olive trees? Because the rest of the villagers were commanded to leave their village to Lebanon on foot, which took them about three days march only a few elderly people who could not walk anyhow, remained at home – and this split is represented by the crevice of the stone. On the other hand, in the villagers’ memory, time has been cracked between what before and what after the 30th of October 1948, just as Americans and indeed the whole world now a days talks of the time before and after the 11th of September 2001.

On the left part of the stone we find the names of the victims in Arabic – however you could hardly read them. Who can remember their names except for their relatives and personal friends? But the massacre itself will be craved in the collective memory of a whole nation, which is true for all massacres!

The stone is “getting old”, but there are fresh shadows representing a recurring memory, or are they the spirits of the dead haunting their killers? The shadows of the birds are the shadows of the souls of the dead, bringing back their memory.

Two pieces of paper, one old and one new, lay on the ground! The old one could stand for the Zionist Archive, in which the truth or part of it was hidden. Now that this Archive is opened for historians, a historian from the village wrote and published recently (the new piece of paper!) a book about Eilaboun and the massacre fills an important part of it.

There is the smaller tombstone with a cross and a bird on it. The cross is a direct symbol of the fact that the victims this time were Christians. The bird is a hope for life and future.

We see an iron railing shadow falling on the ground and partly on the tombstone, a symbol of the Palestinians being under siege. On the right side we see not a shadow this time, but a real machinegun, symbolizing the on going killings of civilians, not only Palestinian children under Israeli occupation, but also non Jewish Israeli citizens as well.




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Artist Collections



Numerous private, corporate, museum, gallery and government collections detailed information coming soon.

Artist Favorites