In about a month, an exhibition with paintings by the late Papu, who specialized in graphic design, industrial design and exhibition design, will open at the Artists’ House in Kfar Saba.
Posted on: 22.6.22 08:34
The brush dropped. Well-known artist Yaakov Papu from Kfar Saba passed away last week. 90 years old was at his death. His funeral took place on Friday in the Pardes Haim cemetery in Kfar Saba. One of Papu’s two sons, Shlomo, told of a special man: “He was a ‘guy’, a little ‘crazy’ with a heart of gold, he had some rigidity, he used to tell people what he thought directly without filters, it’s probably something That he has left from the days of the kibbutz. There are quite a few stories about him, one of them for example in 1956, when he arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, sneaked into a navy ship. Towards the end of his life he fell ill, had a cancerous growth, but still had time to celebrate his 90th birthday ten days before his death. “
Shlomo revealed that in a month, on July 20, a retrospective exhibition will open at the Artists’ House in Kfar Saba with paintings by Yaakov Papu from the 1950s when he studied at Bezalel onwards, with the curator of the exhibition being Aviya Mammon.
The late Yaakov, a native of Yugoslavia, was known as a graphic designer and artist. When he was 8, World War II broke out. 1944. He came to Kibbutz Merhavia, where he studied and painted.
He later studied art and design at the Bezalel Academy of Art and graduated with honors. At the end of the 1950s, he served as the artistic director of the Graphis advertising agency in Haifa, and in 1961 he opened an independent studio in Tel Aviv. The studio specializes in graphic design, industrial design and exhibition design. Papu designed logos, symbols, posters, ads, calendars, packaging, stamps and more. Among his important works as a graphic designer: the emblem of the International Flower Fair in Haifa (1959), a series of ads for the Maariv newspaper (1962) and a tourism poster on the subject of Acre (1968). As part of his work as an artist, the late Papu painted paintings that deal with his personal experiences, using a unique technique he developed. , Mordechai Ardon, one of the greatest painters in Israel.
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