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Traces of a Red Haifa (Masters Thesis)

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...

July 30, 2016ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Folds, Tents and Portraits

The current exhibition aims to view Abdi’s creative work from a more personal, private point of view, combined with an inquiry of his strong desire and sensitivity to material qualities which is impressively present through his work. Abed Abdi (b. 1942, Haifa) is a Palestinian-Israeli artist educated as a graphic designer in the former DDR,1...

May 21, 2013ByDr. Ayelet ZoharInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Drawers: Secrets and Cries

The drawer is culturally attached to the concept of secrecy and privacy, the location where one locks personal documents, intimate objects, and cherished secrets.

April 29, 2013ByDr. Ayelet ZoharInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Abed Abdi And The Liberation Art Of Palestine

Palestinian artists of the second half of the twentieth century, when interviewed, sometimes speak of being the first to do this or that, or that theirs was the first Palestinian one-artist exhibition, etc. The trauma of the Nakba caused an absence in knowledge. Closer study reveals that, despite this perceived chasm in the continuity of...

February 13, 2013BySamia HalabiInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Abed Abdi: Reviewed by Tal Ben Zvi

Palestinian art created within Israel’s 1948 borders possesses unique characteristics deriving from its being part of the visual culture of the Palestinian minority in Israel. In this artistic-national construct, the artist, graphic designer and printmaker Abed Abdi played a leading role as a consequence of his work over the decade between 1972 and 1982 as...

November 13, 2012ByDr Tal Ben ZviInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Abed Abdi – An Artist – Phenomenon

I am unable to address Abed Abdi’s catalogue from the purely technical and professional composition aspect. The historical profundity of Abdi’s experience places him in the category of artist-phenomenon. As a consequence of his intellectual and spiritual accumulation of experiences and the interaction between them, it would be more appropriate for me to go...

February 16, 2012BySamih Al QasimInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

The Wandering Museum in the Works of Abed Abdi

by Amir A. Abdi In 1962 my father held his first exhibition in Tel Aviv initiated by left-wing activists such as Gila Balas and her husband Shimon along with the poet Issam Al-Abassi and others. This event provided great cultural feedback as he was also elected to membership of the Artists Committee. He was twenty...

February 16, 2012ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInBiography, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Abed Abdi – “Wa Ma Nasina”

“Wa ma nasaina” (“We have not forgotten”) exhibition is a personal journey in time, memory andhistory of Palestinians, which constituting an integral part of the life of artist Abed Abdi, who was bornin Haifa. The exhibition contains paintings and lithographies which were published as photographic copies for 20 years, starting at the end of...

February 16, 2012ByDr Tal Ben ZviInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Abed Abdi’s Art: 52 Years of Creation

by Taleb Haj Abed Abdi is celebrating 50 years of artistic work this year, and is holding a special retrospective exhibition covering much of his art at the Um El Fahem Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalog (in Hebrew, Arabic and English) that summarizes Abdi’s work. On this special occasion, therefore, I ...

February 16, 2012ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInScholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Abed Abdi | Men In The Sun

Abed Abdi’s art is chiefly rooted in the autonomous sphere constituted by the language of Arabic literature and the Arabic press. In 1964 he left for art studies in Dresden, where he created many drawings which were published in the Arabic press, portraying refugees in a geographically unidentified space. In Untitled (1968), a caravan of...

June 27, 2009ByDr Tal Ben ZviInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

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