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Abed Abdi press archive

Browse interviews, press articles, and media features documenting the public and artistic journey of Abed Abdi.

Abed Abdi: An Essential Episode In The History Of Israeli Art

 Abed Abdi’s retrospective at the gallery of Umm al – Fahm shows his important contribution to the visual culture of the Palestinians in Israel. Abed Abdi’s Solo exhibition at the gallery of Umm al – Fahm is a comprehensive retrospective of the artist who for decades was well known to non – Jews in Israel,...
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Wonderland – Israeli and Palestinian Artists – Political Conflict in Art, Chagall Artists House, in Haifa, Israel

29/09/2012 source Author: kelise soixante-douze ‘Wonderland’ ran simultaneously in two galleries: Chagall Artists House and Grand Art New Gallery of Contemporary Art, both in Haifa, Israel. I saw the exhibition in Haifa Chagall Artists House non 28 September 2012, which comprised of sculpture, photography, multi-media/2-D works, paintings and several film/videos. Research visit to learn more about...
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Meeting With Abed Abdi

 On January 31st the Palestinian artist Abed Abdi came to meet the children at school. Abed Abdi is a Palestinian painter, graphic designer, sculptor and lecturer of the arts, who currently works and lives in Haifa. He often meets students all around the country, always bringing a series of his works with him and creating this...
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Abed Abdi: 50 years of creativity

The life of the creative artist is measured by the years of his gift rather than the years of his life. The creative artist Abdi Abdi was born and lived in Haifa, and his roots are rooted in this ancient city and from there he acquired his various arts. Despite his studies in Germany and...
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The Violence of Attendance … The Violence Of Stay!

A layer of sand lying randomly on a flat surface of cloth carrying a sea flavor almost inhaled from the fingers of the artist, who decorated the sand with some pieces of ceramics and stones that he had collected from different places from around the world to create a new world of his own, and...
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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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Guest of the Month: Artist Abed Abdi on his Pioneering Journey

The interview was conducted and prepared by Hanna Ibrahim, published in Al Ittihad newspaper on 24 February 1978 A people’s artist, in every sense of the word. He knew the bitterness of displacement and refuge, suffered what his people suffered, and struggled with his brush just as poets struggled with their verses. His communist commitment...
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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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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 / 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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