ARTICLES & PRESS

Shy and the Figures, Contemporary Historic Painting, A lecture by art historian, Tali Tamir, January 2023 (English subtitles)

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The Online catalog of the exhibition, “Marcuse, Pontormo and Me” with texts by Avi Lubin and Shy Abady, Januery 2023

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The Catalog of the “Paul Celan/69/A Visit”, with Texts of Galili Shahar and Dialog between the participants artists

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Sabra, Shira Friedman, April 2021

Shy Abady overturns the familiar plot of Moshe Shamir’s novel "He Walked Through the Fields", integrating into the familiar narrative a turn in the plot that stems from Abady’s own politics of identity – as a Sabra, a Jew, an Israeli, a Syrian, an Egyptian and an Arab. The exhibition features five paintings from the series “Back to the Levant” The figures recurring in these paintings are based on portraits of Assi Dayan and Iris Yotvat, who starred in the film made after Shamir’s book. First published in1947, the novel quickly became a cornerstone of modern Israeli mythology. The plot...

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Two portraits of Hannah Arendt in an article of Yosefa Lushitzki in the american journal “Camera Obscura”, September 2019

“The Restless”, a film by Roni Kaufman, includes interview with the curator Shira Friedman, May 2017

"The Restless", a film by Roni Kaufman about Shy Abady's exhibition, (English Subtitles), May 2017

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Both Sides Now, Sahul Setter, “Haaretz”, August 2017

An exhibition of portraits that features lesser known or errant offspring in Jewish history positions the ‘Arab Jew’ as the necessary extreme of the dynasty By Shaul Setter Aug 19, 2017 Link to the article  Something interesting happens to an art gallery when it’s located in a place like the Schechter Gallery in Tel Aviv. Neve Schechter is a center for Jewish contemporary culture and arts that was established by the directors of the Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. It is situated at the edge of Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv’s first neighborhood, in a gorgeous building....

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Galili Shahr, The Tselem, “The Restless” catalogue, May 2017

The Tselem Galili Shahar What is a tselem, and what is its meaning? A tselem is an image, likeness, or semblance. It is a form or a figure, an object. Yet it is also an essence – the essence of the soul. It is a living spirit as well as the vestige of this spirit, its template. To this we may add: the tselem is light and is also the shadow of death (tsel-mavet). Such contradictions must be taken into account when we speak of the tselem– the form of what is created, the essence of being. Yet being is embodied in matter, in each and every body. Anyone, anything created according to an image,...

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Restless – Shy Abady, Shira Friedman, May, 2017

Restless – Shy Abady  "Thinking and remembering… are the human way of striking roots, of taking one’s place in the world into which we all arrive as strangers." Hannah Arendt[1] The exhibition of works by the artist Shy Abady features ten portraits of "restless" Jewish men and women, which partake of six independent series of paintings. The presentation of these portraits as independent works removed from their original series does away with the historical, biographical, cultural, and narrative contexts in which they were created, giving rise to a new and autonomous body of works...

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My Hannah Arendt Project / Shy Abady, Fordham University Press, N.Y. December 2009

During my German-language studies at the Goethe Institute in Tel Aviv in 2003, I came across Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem," the only one of her books that had been translated into Hebrew at the time. There it was, standing behind a window  in  the institute's foyer, on its jacket, Adolf Eichmann wore a white shirt, looking like the most typical and ordinary person in the world. Soon the book was in my hand; the reading experience was thrilling. Sharp, direct, cynical- and yet sensitive and convincing- the book offered a wide perspective on a new form of evil. Hannah Arendt entered the life...

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