The largest fashion exhibition ever presented on the life and work of the great designer Alber Elbaz, will open on September 15 to the general public and will span the entire building of the Holon Design Museum.
The exhibition “Albert Elbaz the Dream Factory” will span all the spaces of the museum which will be dedicated to the journey between the milestones in the fashion path of the super designer Alber Elbaz, who passed away last year from Corona. The exhibition will feature couture models, rare archival materials, personal items and photographs that have never been revealed to the public, including the launch collection that Elbaz designed for his brand, AZ Factory, which has not been shown in the museum until today. As part of the exhibition, the models of the LOVE BRINGS LOVE display will also be presented – an event that was unparalleled in the history of world fashion. At the initiative of his partner Alex Ko and the brand AZ Factory, 46 of the best fashion houses in the world mobilized to create tribute models in honor of Albert’s memory – including Beit Dior, Gucci, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen and more. The models will be presented in an original multimedia experience specially designed for this exhibition.
Alber Elbaz, super designer and international fashion legend. Born in Casablanca, raised in Holon, immigrated to New York, conquered Paris and left behind a magnificent legacy that changed the face of fashion forever. The exhibition “Albert Elbaz: The Dream Factory” that will open at the Holon Design Museum and will cover all its parts is the most comprehensive exhibition presented so far about him – an exciting and touching tribute that celebrates his life and work. Elbaz (1961-2021) dreamed and breathed fashion from childhood, and is considered an elevation among fashion designers in the world. The exhibition is an opportunity to tell and experience his extraordinary story. Alvar was known not only for his unique talent for design, but also for his innovative vision and his rare ability to tell a story, touch and move. He was a man who was loved and appreciated by many all over the world and influenced many creators. The dreams, the driving force in his life, are given a place of honor in the center of the exhibition, next to magnificent couture models.
Exhibition curator: Yara Kidar (“The Prom”, “Zha Tam, Ronit Alkavetz”).
Creative Director: Katie Rees, who accompanied Alber for 15 years.
The Haifa Museum of Art will open the summer-autumn season with 5 new exhibitions on August 4.
In the new exhibitions, the museum re-examines ideas that took shape during the last century in relation to today’s reality. With the help of a display of prominent contemporary Israeli artists alongside a reading of the museum’s collections, the exhibitions offer a discussion of modernist concepts from an artistic, architectural and social point of view. The artist Nardine Srouji traces the architectural past of the building as a girls’ school of the Anglican Church; The solo exhibition of the artist Oded Hirsch examines the contemporary relevance of the pioneer settlement ethos in Israel. Alongside them are three exhibitions that conduct a discourse about modernism and contemporaneity in Israel: a new permanent display for the Israeli art collection, an exhibition presenting a selection of German prints from the first half of the twentieth century, and an exhibition of engravings by the best Israeli artists from the Gottsman Center for Engraving in Kibbutz Kabari.
4 new summer-autumn exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Maayan Elkayam’s “Clock, Sun” is a kind of exhibition within an exhibition, a spectacular thought-craft of crafts from the past that create a mirror image that turns into an era where there is almost no craft.
The exhibition “Every method is gray, only the tree of life is green forever” was curated from the various collections of the museum. The rule that guided the selection of the works, marks the degree of their power to create a discourse and create a new meaning when they are placed in close proximity to other works created in different mediums and periods, from changing artistic concepts and cultural contexts.
Shira Zalver’s exhibition “Bird Gathering (2022)” includes more than 400 bird sculptures of various species. The birds, made of wax, faithful to their original size, stand motionless on the gallery floor in a celebration of beauty and diversity. From ‘simple’ sparrows and crows to spectacular and oversized birds such as flamingos. Each one of them was sculpted and painted by hand, with careful attention to each and every feather.
Urs Fischer’s “PLAY”, presented for the first time in a museum space, is apparently an innovative and seemingly simple artificial intelligence installation – nine colorful office chairs move freely in the gallery, react to the audience and “communicate” with the visitors. The sculpture and the behavior of the spectators in the space, join a surprising complex of human choreography. When visitors enter the gallery, the chairs react – one can “run” towards us, another will “frighten”, turn and hide in a corner, while other chairs will appear to gather in a group and “ignore” our presence. With every movement of the audience, in the gallery space the behavior of the chairs becomes richer and more unpredictable.
