exhibition
Aviva Uri: The power of destiny
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
curator: built a dog
Lock date: 20.5.23
Opening days and hours: Monday-Thursday: 10:00-14:00, Tuesday, Thursday: 16:00-20:00, Friday and Saturday: 10:00-14:00
Address: 4 Habanim Street, Herzliya
phone: 09-9551011
Ticket availability on the website: www.herzliyamuseum.co.i
Last week, the Herzliya Museum opened “The Power of Fate”, a solo exhibition by the Israeli artist Aviva Uri (1922-1989). The exhibition includes 40 drawings by Uri from the collection of the collector and researcher Beno Caleb, who also curated the exhibition, with the aim of awakening a renewed awareness of the uniqueness and importance of his work.
about the exhibition
The exhibition includes works from Uri’s long career, and it spans two different exhibition spaces. By placing identical drawings next to each other, Caleb sought to examine the fine line between creative power and obsession, aspects that characterized Uri’s work.
Uri’s marital relationship with the painter David Handler, who was her partner for many years, is also presented in the exhibition, through drawings and love notes exchanged between them.
About the artist
Aviva Uri was born in Safed in 1922. Her career as a painter began in the 1940s, and later she became one of the most important and influential artists in Israel.
She is mainly associated with abstract drawings on paper, drawn with frenzied lines, expressing intense emotion and mental turmoil. In some of the works it is possible to identify a motif reminiscent of a landscape, a figurative detail, a sentence or a word implying a position or mindset that communicates in the work.
one job
“Requiem for a Bird” is the name of a series of paintings Uri created in the seventies inspired by the Yom Kippur War. One of the works is a small drawing of what appears to be huge bonfires, on which is written the name of the British composer Benjamin Britten and one of his works – the “War Requiem”, which commemorated the devastation caused by World War II. According to Caleb, the drawing proves that Britten was most likely one of Uri’s sources of inspiration when she painted her paintings about the war.
market value
During her lifetime, Uri’s paintings were exhibited in the best galleries and in almost all museums in Israel, and many of them are included in the institutions’ collections. Today, Uri’s works are owned by the Gordon Gallery and the Givon Gallery, both in Tel Aviv. Uri’s signed prints are valued at about $2,000, the price range for small works is between $4,000-8,000, and the prices of large works can reach up to about $30,000. In 2015, a painting by Uri was sold for $64,000 at an auction in Tirosh.
concert
“Brahms Among Friends”
The Israeli Conservatory of Music “Striker”
date: 28.1.23
hour: 20:30
Address: 25 Louis Marshall St. Tel Aviv
Concert duration: about two hours
price range: 110-145 shekels
Ticket availability on the website: www.icm.org.il
The Stricker Conservatory in Tel Aviv holds one of the best chamber series in the country, where excellent ensembles are regularly hosted. The upcoming concert in the series is called “Brahms among friends”, and as part of it, three leading Israeli musicians who often play together will appear: the violinist Guy Braunstein, the cellist Zvi Pelser and the pianist Miri Yampolski. The story of the violinist Braunstein is particularly interesting, because several years ago he left a stable and rewarding career as principal player in the famous Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and returned to work as an independent solo violinist.
Violinist Guy Braunstein / Photo: Boaz Arad
In the program, four works by Johannes Brahms and other composers close to him will be performed in different forms. The concert will be opened by the rhapsody “Rusalka” by Antonin Dvožak, arranged for violin and piano by Guy Braunstein. It will be followed by Johannes Brahms’ Piano Trio No. 3, a beautiful and expressive work. Later, the Sonata for Cello and Piano Opus 4 by the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodály will be performed, and to finish – the Piano Trio No. 1 by Robert Schumann, who was one of Brahms’s most prominent supporters.
As always, the Stricker Center grants free entry to young people up to the age of 21 and tickets at a price of only NIS 45 to young people aged 22-35 (both on a space-available basis).