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Even before the shadow: Yaakov Mishori's stormy painting has been censored in the past

A painting by the artist Yaakov Mishori, which deals with Kristallnacht with the inverted words "Death to the Jews", was removed from a wall in a medical center in Tel Aviv after a post of the shadow and a storm arose. Walla! Tarbut

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Storm in the Art World: A painting by the artist Yaakov Mishori, on which the words "Death to the Jews" appear in reverse because he dealt with Kristallnacht, was removed from the wall at the "Medica" Medical Center in Tel Aviv. This follows a post written by his Facebook page by singer and right-wing activist Yoav Eliassy, ​​known as the Shadow. Walla! Culture has learned that this is not the first time that the performance of this work has been censored - and the previous time it even happened by a curator associated with the left.

In 2012, the work was to be displayed in an exhibition at the Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Walla! Culture Knowledgeable factors in the world of culture, but the late curator of the exhibition, Naomi Aviv, urged Yaakov Mishori not to display the painting. According to the sources, this was Aviv's fear of the way the work would be understood and accepted ("Naomi was afraid it would cause problems," they say). Similar to what is happening now. this led to the planar respond to this surprise and anger, but eventually accepted the pleas dissatisfaction, officials say, and instead presented another work of his.

the curator Naomi Aviv was a journalist and cultural critic and art who wrote and worked among others in Yediot Aharonot and Haaretz, and was In the Curatorial Award in 2011. Unlike Eliassy, ​​Aviv was identified with the left, for example, before her death she was in the process of building an Israeli-Palestinian art collection for the Luciano Benton Foundation.

Yaakov Mishori refused to comment. Drorit Gur Arieh, who ran the museum during the period Petah Tikva for art, said in response: "I do not remember such a case."

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Mishori created the painting following the testimony of his mother, who saw the inscription "Death to the Jews" on Kristallnacht on the streets of the city where she grew up in northern Germany. Yoav Eliassy shared the painting on his Facebook page on Tuesday (Sunday) and wrote, among other things: "A man came across this picture at the Medica Center Medical Center in Ramat Hachayal in Tel Aviv. He rubbed his eyes and did not believe what he saw. The shocked man approached one of the senior facts and asked The worker answered him excitedly: "This amazing art has been hanging here for a year. That of a provocative 'artist' who is married to a senior member of the Haaretz newspaper (how surprising) named Yaakov Mishori." The shocked man asked: "Are you aware that death is written on it for Jews? ' The worker replied angrily: 'Yes, it's freedom of expression, it's art!' Who needs outside enemies who are our own biggest enemy? ".

After many likes and shares of the post, including calls to the medical center to remove the painting, the medical center removed the work. Eliassi then wrote on Facebook: "Following the social pressure, the bizarre image with the caption 'Death to the Jews' was removed from the Medica Medical Center."

The removal of the painting from the medical center has provoked much anger in the cultural world. Naomi Givon, owner of the Givon Gallery, tells Walla! Culture: "It's a scandal due to a lack of understanding of the role of art and the role of the artist in society. It borders on the cause of action, because the artist has a social role, and he will not tolerate any mouth-clogging. If this painting is artistically good there was no reason in the world to download It is artistically an exceptional painting, without any flaws. It embraces very important messages to society historically, and also in terms of the modernism of the language used by Mishori. It can be said that this is a private society that has the freedom to choose which work it is willing to stand for. "But the fact that they chose painting in the past and lived with it in peace, so what happened? The work was brought down from ignorance, it is terrorism."

Medica reported in response to the media: "The painting displayed in the corridors of the hospital was painted in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and has one purpose - to present the resurrection and victory of the Jewish people after World War II. The way the work was presented online is completely the opposite and we regret it. However, Medica Tel Aviv is a leading medical center in Israel that listens to its customers. The center displays works by dozens of artists on its walls. In light of the reactions and feelings that came to us, it was decided to replace the work with another. We apologize if anyone's feelings were hurt. That was probably not our intention. "

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