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China Kan-KanIsraeli Artists in China
Opening reception: 3pm - 6pm, Sunday May 13th
Beijing, China, May 2007. The artists participating in this exhibition are all Israeli artists currently living and creating in China (Beijing and Shanghai). The exhibition is a mosaic of different artists' impressions and experiences generated by the new physical and spiritual landscape in which they live and from which they nurture their art. The exhibition will be held from May 1st to May 31st.
The name of the exhibition, 'China Kan-Kan', makes use of the double meaning the word-phonetic sound 'Kan' bear in Chinese and Hebrew: Kan in Chinese means 'to see' / 'to look'. In Hebrew, Kan means 'here' - a word that acquired cultural and national purport implying being specifically in Israel, as a reference to home. 'China Kan-Kan' raises the questions regarding the relationship between the Israelis' 'here' - which tool hold in one way or another of their way they perceive thee world - and the new 'look' the Chinese environment demands.
'China Kan-Kan' raises the questions regarding the relationship between past-[resent identities and changing new surroundings - questions that surely every 'foreigner' deals with when and where he becomes one, but perhaps Israelis deals with more than others, due to the Israeli/Jewish identity's ongoing, past-present, history.
Curators: Irit Tamari and Nitzan Katz-Wolff.
Artists:
Irit Tamari
Dvir Bar-Gal
Nir Elias
Basmat Levin
Amir Pollak
Noel Fortunee
Yair Lior
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