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Interview with the Artist Abed Abdi

Conducted by the artist Karim DabbahPublished in Al-Tali’a Newspaper, June 22, 1978 I was born in Haifa in 1942, where I completed my elementary and secondary education. In 1964, I traveled to East Germany to study art and enrolled at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. In 1971, I received a master’s degree in mural...
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The Orphan Plow and the Municipal Consultant: A Memorial for the Victims of Land Day

Published by Yehoshua Sobol — the well-known Hebrew playwright, whom we recently came to know through Al-Ittihad newspaper for his socially themed play “Kriza.”This article appeared in the newspaper “Al Hamishmar” on 11 April 1977, and we are publishing it here in full. In the nineteenth century, they would have begun a case like this...
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Reflections on May Day: Resistance in the Visual Arts

Art is a weapon used by the people in their intellectual and practical struggle to achieve their denied rights. Naturally, this art must be purposeful, organized, clear, and expressive—emerging from the ongoing conflict between the exploiting and the exploited forces. Within it lie the distinct characteristics of committed visual art that serves the struggles of...
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Echoes: Abed Abdi’s Exhibition in the Israeli Press

The art exhibition of painter Abed Abdi drew the attention of both the public and art critics in Israeli newspapers. The exhibition was held at Beit Hagefen in Haifa during the second half of last month and included 39 artworks by the artist, who was already known to the public through his previous exhibitions and...
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Abed Abdi’s Solo Exhibition Opening: Speech by Poet Issam Abbasi

Dear audience, I am delighted to join artist Awkshi in opening the exhibition of our artist Abed Abdi, because several years ago, we used to look at Abed lying on the ground, doodling like a child, making what he called “drawings.”But today, we look up to Abed Abdi — a painter forging his path in...
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Abed Abdi’s Solo Exhibition Opening / Haifa

In the presence of a large audience of painters, artists, intellectuals, and writers, painter A. Awkshi and poet Issam Abbasi inaugurated the art exhibition of painter Abed Abdi last Saturday morning at Beit HaKarma in Haifa.On behalf of the Arab-Jewish Cultural Center – Beit HaKarma, the head of the art department, painter Feuerstein, gave a...
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Art for All: A Note on Kitsch

We often repeat words of admiration for things that please us and harmonize with our feelings, and we speak about taste in colors and their harmony. However, people’s response to aesthetic concepts does not form a unified or independent sense of taste, but rather a complete fusion that grows and matures within the social environment...
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Group Exhibition in Dresden, Germany (1966)

A group exhibition of 5 foreign students was held at the Brühlsche Terrasse – The gallery belonging to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, from 20 May until 30th of June 1966 . Participating artists: Dino Di Rosa (Chile)Mauricio Boizeau (Columbia)Elly Johnsen (Norway)Elis Kankkunen (Finland)Abed Abdi
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The First Solo Exhibition (1962)

Abed Abdi’s first solo exhibition was held at “Ahva” (solidarity) Culture Club, Tel-Aviv, Brenner street 21. Curator : G. Adam opening remarks: G. Adam, Adeeb Kass. A special conference was held on the last day of the exhibition (Saturday the 2nd of February 1962), on the “problems of Arab Culture in Israel”, with the participation...
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