Head to the amazing Tower of David in Jerusalem for yet another awesome exhibition!
Starting July 16 and running til December, Objective is a contemporary design exhibition that brings together for the first time two leading Jerusalem-born designers – Ezri Tarazi and Haim Parnas, former students and now senior lecturers in design at Bezalel. In the exhibition, Tarazi and Parnas show new bodies of work whose design is based on a personal study of Jerusalem, the city that served as the source of their inspiration and played a significant role in forming their identities as leading designers and platforms the process of design and “making”.
In the works exhibited, the two designers treat Jerusalem both as a place that has a rich material culture charged with geopolitical issues, and as an abstract subject that can be interpreted in varying ways.
Tarazi presents nine occasional tables designed out of different physical and conceptual interpretations of certain aspects of the city. The tables are based on an identical graphical source and some have working mechanisms that are only visible when the tables are being used. Parnas’s works combine improvised functional items and humorous sculptural objects and are displayed in four clusters arranged like vibrant, teaming and pulsating work environments.
The table you see above is, in our opinion, the coolest table you’ll ever see (we want one, badly!). When placing a glass on one of the relevant placement holders, a Middle Eastern tune/instrument is heard. Place a few more glasses and you’ve got yourself a stonkingly good song, completely adaptable to your own style and mood – just rearrange the glasses!
Despite the designers’ common ideological ground, Tarazi and Parnas are driven by entirely different design approaches. Consequently, the exhibition assigns each one a separate unit, thus enabling an increasing understanding of each designer’s thought processes as they evolve from one object to the next.
The exhibition does not only show case the end result, “the object of design” but also the work process, exploring the influence of the city on the now international renowned designers. The works are accompanied by films showing how the exhibits were prepared. Thus, the exhibition also provides a glimpse into the design process as it unfolds, beginning with the sources of inspiration, through the work methods, to the final product.
To a considerable extent, Objective is an exhibition that epitomizes the fulfillment of a historical vision of the Tower of David as the city’s museum, which – in addition to presenting the city’s history and displaying the citadel’s archaeological remains – is also capable of hosting contemporary art and design exhibitions within its walls that present the ‘other’ Jerusalem, the one that is ever-present in artistic and cultural thought and creation.
Opening hours for the Museum:
July: Sunday–Thursday and Saturday: 09:00–16:00, Friday: 09:00–14:00
August: Sunday–Thursday and Saturday: 09:00–17:00, Friday: 09:00–14:00
September – November: Sunday–Thursday and Saturday: 09:00–16:00, Friday–Saturday: 09:00–14:00
Further details on the Museum website: www.tod.org.il
To book, phone *2884 or 02-6265333. Entrance price is included in Museum entrance ticket.