Shy Abady
Shy Abady (born 1965 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli artist who deals with issues related to the German and Jewish history. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad.
Biography
With fifteen years Abady took the first painting lessons in the studio of the painter Asher Rodnizky. Later attending workshops the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem and studied at the Art Academy in Ramat Hasharon Hamidrasha followed. Language studies in German and French completed his education.
In 1995 he presented his first solo exhibition, From reality to myth - Nijinsky, who represented the life and the image of the Russian dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky. Nijinsky was a myth, which focused on his movement in the center of his second solo exhibition, Anatomy. Later Abady created two other series that examined the body and movement, caresses, dissect the the male body in parts, and only for your feet, which focused on feet and combined video with sculpture. An exhibition on this subject presented Abady in 2009 in the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center again with The Revolution danced, a tribute to Nijinsky and Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, for the hundredth anniversary of its first performance in Paris. The homage presented works by two former Nijinsky series and a new job.
2000 Abady was awarded a residency fellowship at the Cité in Paris. There he created the series icon - the golden age, represented the Jewish figures in Christian iconographic art. In the series Abady transformed himself and his friends to Christian icons. He made reference to aspects of the Jewish- Israeli and Christian- art aesthetic traditions.
2005 Abady presented in the Frankfurt Jewish Museum 's series Hannah Arendt project, in which it is about the life story and the image of Hannah Arendt and the Jewish-German controversy over their political views. After the series was shown in Frankfurt, it was also shown in Bremen and Oldenburg. Then the series in the Jerusalem Artists' House was presented. In 2010, seven works from the series in the exhibition Jewish Icons Andy Warhol and Israeli artists, shown in Beit Hatefutsot Museum in Tel Aviv. A text by Abady about his work on the project in the book Thinking in Dark Times Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics was published by Fordham University Press (New York City). In the same year further an image from the Hannah Arendt series of Abady was used as a cover for the Hebrew edition of Arendt's biography.
2006 Abady began work on Radu, a series that shows the Israeli- Romanian poet and writer Radu Klapper in portraits. The series was introduced in January 2012 Tzadik Gallery in Jaffa.
In the years 2007-2008 Abady lived in Berlin and created the series My other Germany. The artist in his interpretation of German and German - Jewish history and the myth Berlin Sculpture and monuments represents the series used Prussian statues and monuments from the 18th and 19th centuries as an allegory on the 20th century and events from the Second World War.
2010 Abady began on the series Auguste Victoria to work, which continues his idea of the Berlin series, but now also shows from the Israeli perspective. The series explores the dialogue between Theodor Herzl, the founder of the spiritual Jewish state, and Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor. The fate of the two families becomes an allegory of the fate of the two nations and also that of the Palestinians. The series combines portraits of personalities from the two families as well as architectural constructions related to their history and their destiny. The series was first presented in 2012 at " Dan " Gallery in Tel Aviv, with the collaboration of the Goethe Institute.