"Masa" Journey
Young Artists Exhibition
1 April - 18 June 2006
Curators: Ady Greenfeld 
               Aviva Carbonara

"One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things" Heny Miller (American writer, painter and traveller)
The idea of this exhibition origins in the encounter with the exhibition " Universal experience: art, Life and the Tourist's Eye" presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Feb-June 2005. The Israeli context  with the journey and travel experience was obvious. In particular the subject of Israeli young people travelling after Army and  or before Studies , the need to go far away to remote places over seas, before starting the "real" life commitments and meet expctations of  family and  society before settling down as adults .

I thought it will be interesting to present an exhibition of arworks of young artists, showing their impressions and experiences on the subject.
The  exhibition shows works of 21 young artists, graduates of Art Academies in Israel, showing the Journey experience as their perceive it. In addressing the subject of travelling or going from one place to another , we may find connected issues as : borders a contraversary issue for us as Israelis, discovering new places , new cultures by wandering in the country, vehicles and oher travel means and also we may find maps.
As a corner stone to the artworks of the young artists, the exhibition shows Meir Pichhadze's work "Self portrait wih suitcase" (oil on carton, attached to canvas, 58X50, 1996). This work is well representing a basic motif of his work - the Journey experience. 
Ady Greenfeld, Curator

Participating Artists
Nawal Nappa
Miri Silver
Irit Basan Barel
Yaniv Fogel
Judith Raviv
Cohavit Goldberg
Liat Yaakov Kashlas
Lilah Rozen
Ital Noy
Nevel Klachko Niv
Shlomi Lalush
Zohar Sitner
Sharon Indigo Wagner
Keren Halevi
Inbal Dinur
Ido Noy
Monica Gosables
Michal Brendaski
Daniela Horvine
Amir Polak
Tal Greenfeld

Left:(upper image)
Irit Basan Barel ,Acrylic on canvas, 100x100 cm
Left:Going Place ,Sharon Indigo Wagner , Map with cuttings 90x160 cm