Manofim 2022 | 5th exhibition in the 19th Nidbach series Juklook’s Service

5th exhibition in the 19th Nidbach series Juklook’s Service

Saturday, 29.8.2015 until 24.10.2015

Artist: Oded Yaakov
Curator: Etti Abergel

“Juklook’s Service,” the installation by Oded Yaakov, is an imaginary,
chaotic realm, enveloping disarmed military elements. Hybrid and grotesque
imagery unveils the world of a young artist, examining his identity in a global
as well as a local Israeli artistic context.

Yaakov combines military syntax with a painterly one, in a way both ominous
and parodic. Art, connoting freedom, imagination and free speech is enmeshed
in the Israeli code, as he paints on khaki colored Cordura fabric or sews sculptural
objects, such as army vests and assorted casings that resemble
dismembered body parts or portraits.

“Juklook” is the brand of sewing machine that is personified in the installation,
a fictional character, disrupting the appropriate mode of fabrication and inciting
a flush of images overflowing the space and accumulating as in a play or shadow theater.

Gallery talk: Friday, 4 September 2015 12:00

Sports day, 2015, acrylic and oil on Cordura fabric, 135X18 cm

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Jerusalem Artists’ House

The Jerusalem Artists House is situated in a historic building that once housed "The Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts," founded by Boris Schatz in 1906, today the current Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design. For a time the building housed the Bezalel National Museum, precursor of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. When the Israel Museum was opened, the collections of the Bezalel National Museum were transferred to it, where they formed the initial core collection of the Museum. Since 1965, the House has served as home to the Association for Jerusalem Artists. In this capacity, the House has become a dynamic center for exhibitions, displaying unique and varied works of both Israeli and international artists. The annual exhibition plan includes a series focusing on prominent young artists exhibiting their works for the first time, as well as a series of retrospective works by veteran artists. In addition, the Artists House displays group exhibitions on a wide range of subjects, joint presentations between Israeli and international artists, as well as a variety of other activities.

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