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Shai Kremer
Broken Promised Land
April 10 - May 10, 2008
The Julie Saul Gallery is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition
of photographs by Shai Kremer. Since 1999 Kremer has set about documenting
the "ominous imprint of the military on the Israeli landscape- and reflectively,
on Israeli society." Working in color in a beautiful documentary style,
Kremer's vision is both clinical and emotional. The traditional Zionist
attitude of a poetic affinity and love of the scorched and often barren
Israeli landscape blends with a critique of the remnants from Israel's
longstanding violent struggles with Arab and Palestinian neighbors.
The exhibition features ten large color prints, including two panoramas.
Subjects include the separation wall, training sites, detritus from past
conflicts and the scars left on the landscape. These images collectively
make up the vision of Israel as it is today. Instead of shock, Kremer
cerates aesthetic, orderly compositions that parallel the defense mechanisms
developed to protect Israelis from the powerful reality of the current
political situation. As Kremer as stated, "my goal is to reveal how every
piece of land has become infected with loaded sediments of the ongoing
conflict."
A hardcover monograph entitled Infected Landscape: Israel, Broken Promised
Land with 66 color plates will be officially published in September
2008 by Dewi Lewis publishing, but will be available in advance at the
exhibition. Sylvia Wolf, photography scholar and director of the Henry
Art Museum in Seattle has contributed an essay as well as Moshe Zuckerman.
Kremer's work was previously exhibited here in the group exhibition entitled
Infected Landscape in 2006 along with Atta Kim, Misty Keasler and Anthony
Haughey. Kremer lives and works in Israel and New York, and he received
an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2005.
Selections from his new work will have solo exhibitions this spring in
Israel, Oslo and San Francisco in addition to New York. His work has been
published widely including the cover of Afterimage in 2007 and
the New York Times Magazine on assignment. His work is in many
public collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Chicago, the Israel Art Museum (Jerusalem) and the Contemporary Art Museum
(Tel Aviv), the Harvard University School of Business and the Rose Museum
of Brandeis University.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards including three scholarships
or grants from the American-Israel Cultural Foundation in 2002, 2004 and
2005.
SHAI KREMER
BROKEN PROMISED LAND
APRIL 10 - MAY 10, 2008
ENTRANCE:
View of a minefield, abandoned Syrian base, Golan Heights, 2007
chromogenic print mounted on sintra
30 x 40 image, 39 5/8 x 49 1/4 framed
ap 1/2 from an edition of 5
Surface of a park sculpture after a Katyusha explosion, Karmiel, August,
2006
chromogenic print mounted on museum board
20 3/4 x 27 3/4 image, 28 x 35 framed
edition of 10
MAIN GALLERY
EAST WALL:
Palestinian olive trees beheaded due to security reasons,
East Jerusalem, 2007
chromogenic print mounted on sintra
20 x 82 3/8 image, 28 x 90 3/8 framed
edition of 10
NORTH WALL:
Improvised landing strip during the Lebanon Wars,
North Israel, 2006
chromogenic print mounted on sintra
30 x 40 image, 39 5/8 x 49 1/4 framed
edition of 5
"Chicago" Ground Force Training Zone, 2007
chromogenic print mounted on sintra
30 x 40 image, 39 5/8 x 49 1/4 framed
edition of 5
Jeep, Air Force training target, Big Rivers Nature Reserve, 2007
chromogenic print mounted on sintra
30 x 40 image, 39 5/8 x 49 1/4 framed
edition of 5
The Separation Wall, Jerusalem, 2004
chromogenic print mounted on sintra
30 x 40 image, 39 5/8 x 49 1/4 framed
edition of 5
WEST WALL:
Panorama, Urban Warfare Training Center, Tzeelim, 2007
chromogenic print mounted on sintra
21 3/8 x 82 7/8 image, 29 3/8 x 90 1/2 framed
edition of 10
SOUTH WALL:
Interior, Urban Warfare Training Center, Tzeelim, 2007
chromogenic print mounted on sintra
30 x 40 image, 39 5/8 x 49 1/4 framed
edition of 5
Abandoned Syrian base, Golan Heights, 2007
chromogenic print mounted on sintra
30 x 40 image, 39 5/8 x 49 1/4 framed
edition of 5
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View of a minefield..
Surface of a park sculpture..
Palestian olive trees beheaded..
Improvised landing strip..
Jeep, Air force training target..
The Separation Wall..
Urban warfare training center..
Interior, Urban warfare training center..
Abandoned Syrian base..
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