Biblical Narratives and Other Stories: The Photographs of Adi Nes.
Monday, October 30th at 7pm in Klingenstein Lounge
In a lecture accompanied by slides of his works, the artist will describe his personal artistic language. He will touch upon issues related to hidden layers in his photographs, the use of canonical icons and social ideas ascribed to them, staged photography which creates reality as opposed to photography which usually reflects reality, and the various faces of Israeli identity.
Adi Nes (born 1966, Israel), is one of Israel's most prominent photographers. Since his graduation from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (1992), his works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, achieving great recognition and success.
Nes's body of work includes five main series to date: Soldiers , Boys , Prisoners , Biblical Stories and The Village .
His works correspond with famous pieces from the art canon, as well as with contemporary photography, mythologies, film, media and journalism, fashion, and more. Nes diverts these borrowed images towards new contexts, thus creating a new and critical look at contemporary reality.
His creations have won Nes various prestigious awards, including the Anglo-Israeli Photographic award (1993), the Education, Culture & Sport Minister's Prize for Artists in the Visual Arts (1999 & 2013), the Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2000), and the Constantiner Prize for Photography (2003). His photographs have been acquired by many of the most celebrated public and private art collections, and have been sold successfully in international art auctions.
Nes's large scale and multi-layered color photographs, executed with meticulous light and print qualities, draw inspiration from his personal biography, as well as from collective Israeli memory and universal art history.
Adi Nes is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, NY
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Lauren Goldberg at hillel@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
