What can be said today about the events of the “Land Day”, that bitter day of the 30th March, 1976. I take the liberty of reiterating what I wrote a month before the “Land Day”, and published in the weekly “Chotam” of 27th February, 1976. “Just when a number of M.K.s of the ‘national league’ […]
I have been asked again and again, why we made the monument to the “Land Day” at Sakhneen. In ancient times, people piled up cairns as monuments to preserve a site or to drive away evil spirits… And surely only evil spirits could force peasantry to leave their land, and only evil spirits could disturb […]
The peoples of the world have created, on their creative path of civilization, expressions for their conceptions of thought, in the form of symbols and rituals which were clearly expressed by the erection of temples, places of worship, obelisques and stone monuments. In the wake of the march of humanity, and in the course of […]
From earth to earth! For hundreds of years, man has been repeating these words, which are full of equanimity and wisdom, and are within a religious, Sufi context. But for the peasant who is rooted in the soil of his land, this sentence is charged with a different connotation; here matter and soul meet in […]
There are those who claim that early years of an artist’s life are the ones that leave their imprint on his creative productivity and accompany him throughput his life. In Intensive tempo childhood images return and emerge, forms and lines are coupled to a subject which pursues the artist again and again, revealing periods […]
Over a decade ago, when I encountered Abed Abdi for the first time, I could not help but expect a productive and fruitful future for the painter. He was twenty one years old at the time and I came into possession of one of his early drawings, which enabled me, later on to see the […]
Hagefen Gallery Haifa. Exhibition open from 4-22 November, 1972.
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
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 […]