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Group Exhibition: “1948”@ Haifa City Museum

Opening: 01 December 2018Closing: 28 April 2019 The dramatic change undergone by Haifa in the 1948 war still resonates in the city’s urban space, its buildings, residents, and cultural-historic climate. This exhibition seeks to present the many aspects of that fateful year. In an attempt to avoid imposing one single narrative, we sought to search...

February 12, 2019ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInExhibitions

In Controversial New Exhibit ‘1948,’ Fusing Palestinian and Jewish Narratives

A Haifa art show presents work by both Jews and Palestinians depicting the ongoing trauma of the 1948 war Naama Riba, Haaretz The festive decorations adorning Ben-Gurion Boulevard outside the Haifa City Museum stand in contrast to the deep wound at the heart of the new art exhibition within. “1948” is a display of works...

December 16, 2018ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews

Culture of Memory: The Holocaust and the Nakba Images in the Works of Lea Grundig and Abed Abdi

by Tal Ben-Zvi https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/bash18296.14 This chapter, titled Part III The Holocaust and the Nakba:The Deployment of Traumatic Signifiers, revolves around an exceptional encounter between a woman who was one of the first painters of the Holocaust events and a man who had been, for many years, one of the most important authors of Nakba iconography....

September 20, 2018ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews

The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History

Edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg. Foreword by Elias Khoury. Afterword by Jacqueline Rose. Columbia University Press, Pub Date: November 2018 In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often...

September 20, 2018ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews

Story of a painting

In the painting “Father on the Background of Displacement from Haifa April 22nd, 1948” Abed Abdi reconstructs through his and his family’s personal experience the traumatic historical event of the Palestinian people: The Nakba. In 1948, Abdi who was born and lives in Haifa, was uprooted with his mother to Lebanon, where they spent four...

July 13, 2017ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews

Tel Aviv Art Show Exposes the Aesthetic of the Occupation

It’s rare to see an exhibition in which equal weight is given to both the Palestinian-Israeli narrative and the Jewish-Israeli one Ouzi Zur, Haaretz Newspaper Jul 13, 2017 The first time I came to the group exhibition “Bad Taste: The Fiftieth Year of the Occupation,” red-and-white ribbons blocked the entrance to Minus1 Gallery in Tel...

July 13, 2017ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews

Group Exhibition: Bad taste, the fiftieth year of the occupation / Minus 1 Gallery

curator, Efrat LivnyMinus 1 Gallery, Tel Aviv2 June – 29 July , 2017 Online exhibition catalog: Minus 1 Gallery participating artists, Abed Abdi, Farid Abu Shakra, Ron Amir [and 25 others] 2 June, 2017 – 26 August, 2017Artists: Abu Shakra, Farid | Geva, Tsibi | Berest, Deganit | Ben David, Arnon | Ashkar, Anisa |...

June 2, 2017ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInExhibitions

Traces of the Nakba

Penny Johnson Raja Shehadeh Jerusalem Quarterly Issue 80 – Winter 2019 Review of Exhibition: “1948,” Haifa City Museum, 4 December 2018–28 April 2019. On Ben Gurion Street in Haifa’s Germany Colony, banners flutter in the wind. Emblazoned on them is simply a date: 1948. The Haifa City Museum – an official municipal museum – was...

March 10, 2017ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews

Traços de uma haifa vermelha : um estudo sobre a cultura visual da sociedade palestina/israelense através de charges e ilustrações do artista palestino Abed Abdi (1972-1982)

Figueiredo, Carolina Ferreira de Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a cultura visual presente em Israel e na Palestina durante as décadas de 1970 e 1980, através da singular interação entre o universo das imagens e a luta política da Palestina. O estudo parte da preocupação em compreender territórios e alcances da visualidade palestina, especialmente...

July 30, 2016ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInEspañol

Traces of a red haifa: a study on the visual culture of Palestinian / Israeli society through cartoons and illustrations by the Palestinian artist Abed Abdi (1972-1982)

Masters Thesis by Figueiredo, Carolina Ferreira de Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas This work aims to analyze the visual culture presented in Israel and Palestine during the 1970s and 1980s, through the unique interaction between the images spectrum and the political struggle in Palestine. The study is...

July 30, 2016ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews