Beginning Anew

Group exhibition

Start. First things first. Beginning.
First of all, start walking - create a walk.
First of all, start thinking - create a thought.
First of all, start asking - create a question.
First of all, start creating - create art.

First of all, in the beginning, the word kibbutz connotes coming together; Connecting around an idea, uniting around a thought. Then, right away, the word kibbutz calls for creation, for listening and observation.
Just like the act of making art, like the act of the artist who goes to the studio every day.

Time and place also call upon us; ask us to begin anew. They ask us to go back to the sources, to the places where we started and searched and asked, to the points where we met people, were inspired, saw the landscape and were able to imagine; We were part of what was happening around us. We felt, we were present, we didn't disconnect.

Beginning Anew, the first in the series of exhibitions that make up the kibbutz exhibition in Givat Haviva, brings artists who, in their own way, present this spirit of the times, the spirit that asks for creation, that asks for a gaze. Artists who go to the landscape of their kibbutz, the landscape of their surroundings, and find their inspiration in the thoughts and ideas, the houses, the fields, the roads.

In her poem The End and the Beginning, poet Wislawa Szymborska writes about the need for someone to look at things differently:

“In the grass that has overgrown
causes and effects,
someone must be stretched out
blade of grass in his mouth
gazing at the clouds.”

It seems that there is no one who produces connection and cohesion like art, like the artists who gaze directly at reality and invite us on a journey through their world - our world.
A journey back to the kibbutz.
First of all, the kibbutz.

Taal Eva Goldman (Yotvata), Yossi Veissid (HaMa’apil), Dana Harel (Hatzor), Eshchar Hanoch Kliengbiel (born in Nir Oz), Israel Neta (Be’eri), Efrat Natan (born in Kfar Ruppin), Tzila Liss (Ein Shemer) and Dov Or-Ner z”l (Hatzor) - The connection and cohesion with the environment and the spirit of the time run like a thread through their works and create a platform for observing the kibbutz of today, through a continuous look at the kibbutz of the past.