The Hidden Garden Exhibition ― Sculptor: Yael Netanel, Curator: Asia Dublin
Yael Netanel is an Israeli ceramic sculptor who has been working for decades at Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk in the Western Galilee.
In the new exhibition “Hidden Garden”, Yael presents a new body of work in which ceramic female figures are embedded within colorful knitted spaces reminiscent of a Galilean forest, waves, roots, sky, and streams of water. The female figures created by Yael extend, float, hide, and open within knitted spaces, which constitute for them both a garden, a safe haven, and an internal map of healing.
The body and the landscape are intertwined, and the sculptures become small islands of breathing, rest, dreaming, and holding. Within the Israeli reality of recent years, “Hidden Garden” seeks to create a different place ― quieter, softer, one that allows one to stop for a moment and connect to a protected space of softness in a turbulent period.
The exhibition will open as part of the July Art Festival.
Yael Netanel lives and creates in Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk in the Western Galilee. Her artistic path developed from self-study and a deep personal connection to the material, with clay becoming for her a language of expression, healing, listening, and inner connection. Over the years, she has developed a unique creative language that combines ceramic sculpture, textiles, and materials from nature. Alongside her sculptural work, Yael writes poetry, and in her creative process there is a dialogue between text and material ― sometimes a poem gives birth to a sculpture, and sometimes the sculpture becomes a poem.
Asia Dublin is an independent curator and creator who has been working in the field of art and culture for over a decade. During her entrepreneurial endeavors, she initiated, curated, and produced dozens of art exhibitions and cultural projects in galleries and public spaces. Her work focuses on connections between art, community, crafts and local culture, and on promoting artists and creators from the Western Galilee
Program:
11 am – 11:15 am Gathering & Light Refreshments
11:15 am Address by the CEO – Michal Shiloah Galnoor
11:30 am – 12:15 pm Gallery discussion with sculptor Yael Netanel and exhibition curator Asia Dublin
When? Friday, July 3, 11 am – 12:30 pm
Where? JNF-USA Information Center, Old Akko
Price: Free admission, with advance registration!
Phone: 072-3941110
The seeds of sculpture were sown into Yael’s childhood, during hours of pleasant and intimate creation with her mother on the kibbutz. However, another 40 years would pass before she turned her love of sculpting into a career.
“The female figures I sculpt are created with a lot of love — for women and their mature bodies from which life is created. Women are happy, love themselves, are grateful, accept their bodies, and celebrate life.”
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We expose the visitors to the unique heritage and hospitality through workshops, culinary events, art, music, guides tours, festivals and also through our Tourist Information Center in Akko, owned by JNF USA which we were chosen to operate since Jan. 2016.
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