ISRAELStreetart Tel Aviv
We sneaked away again during the cold months. Overwintering somewhere far more in the south, definitly very recommendable. Of course we brougth a nice collection of street art pictures and graffiti material from the place we went to: Israel. As well we went for an interview to the since 10 years existing Montana can shop in Tel Aviv. The country has a lot to offer and is worth an explorative visit.
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Painter and Muralist Tamir Shefer – Iconic Mayan Comic Masks
The painter and muralist Tamir Shefer from Tel Aviv began his career as a comic creator and cartoonist. Meanwhile he doesn´t only paint his colorful figures, swarming masks and mythical icons in a pop up style on canvas, but as well on motorcycles, cars, guitars, pianos, shoes, dinosaurs or countless house walls in the urban space. Important for him is to take objects and places which themselves generate a social dynamic. Check out the interview with the fabulous artist!
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Streetart Florentin – Tel Aviv
Florentin is actually a part of Tel Aviv, we wrote already about its street art. But Florentin deserves a special part about the graffiti and the particular surrounding. The walls are covered with nice artwork and the extraordinary mix with the industrial buildings is phenomenal. It is as well a very interesting place if you want to directly observe and study some kind of half-functioning but still developing gentrification. Some streets are in perfect hipster manner, there are chick bars and nice cafes, a lot of alternative and different styles. But just around the corner there is as well the factory quarter, between dirty roads and market streets all over. Its a fantastic mix. There the stylo cafes, on the other side is one car repair shop next to each other with a scrap head in front of the place. Just the architectural commingling is fantastic.
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Capzoola Can Store – Tel Aviv
During our stay in Tel Aviv we surprisingly found out there exists a Montana Can Shop in town. Self-evidently that we visited that place. Lalo and Andrew run the can store named Capzoola since 2007 in the city center. With a lot of work and effort they made it that far and the shop is meanwhile a little institution if you need anything around paint and colors. In the beginning they started selling the cans from underneath the bed. More than a decade ago they opened the nice space in Geula Street 42, „zoola“ from Capzoola means „cool place to chill“ in Hebrew.
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Photographer Dana Arieli – The Phantom Project
The photographer and historian Dana Arieli from Israel captures the relics of the past and highlights the different aspects of dealing or not-dealing with remains. As a history professor she is continuously introducing ancient times and gone moments to the present. On her online platform Phantom Photography she uploaded hundreds of photos located to a map and sorted by categories. The project is made for commenting and opens a discussion with people around the world. At the exhibition Echos in the Kunstverein Familie Montez we spoke with the artist in an interview.
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Multidisciplinar Artist ALANDER ESPECIE – Paintings, Installations and Macramé
The artist ALANDER ESPECIE is a sculptor, designer and installation creator whose practice of intensive work is based on traditional weaving and macramé with curiousity about how the search for ancestry and his own path intertwine. Born in Brazil and after having an art period with his design art, he moved to Isreal where he discovered abstract painting. A multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural artist. Check out the interesting interview and his great artworks!
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Streetart Jerusalem
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Herodium Monumentum
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The Dead Sea
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City Reportage – Jerusalem
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City Reportage – Tel Aviv
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