Art Undercover
Tamir Zadok
ROSENFELD GALLERY, Tel-Aviv
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Première
- Title
- Art Undercover
- Gallery
- ROSENFELD GALLERY, Tel-Aviv
- Year
- 2017
- Duration
- 26 min 40 s
- Format & Technical
Video
Edition of 6 + 2 AP
Art Undercover is a chronicle about Zadok’s quest to find a lost modernist painting. The film is on the seam between performance, documentary, and fiction. The video is rooted in the story of Shlomo Cohen Abravanel (who will later become one of the heads of the “Mossad” – the Israeli secret service), who went on an undercover mission in Egypt assuming the identity of a French painter named Charduval. Abravanel’s cover story was so successful that he later had a solo exhibition in Cairo and two of his paintings were sold to the Egyptian National Museum. Tamir Zadok tries to track one of Charduval’s oil paintings in Cairo but, just as the Mossad agent pretended to be an artist until he became one, Tamir Zadok’s works leads him to pretend to be a fake secret agent, an artist-spy. The video’s claimed narrative, the mission to find the lost painting, serves as a platform for a dual discussion on impersonation of an artist and of an Arab.
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Tamir Zadok
- Artist
1979, Holon
Tamir Zadok (Holon, 1979) is an Israeli artist who works with video, photography, and installation. His practice employs various types of recognizable film genres in order to undermine historical narratives and political identities. Zadok tests his identity in relation to the Arab expanse, which functions in his work on two levels: the biographical and the political. His last solo exhibition took place in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2017 and he has participated in many exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including MODEM, Hungary (2018), Augusta gallery, Helsinki (2017), Martin Grupious Bau, Berlin (2015), Weserburg Museum, Bremen, Germany (2013), European House of Photography, Paris (2012), Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (2012), Haifa Museum of Art (2011), and Artisterium, Tiblisi, Georgia (2010). He has won several awards and grants such as The Israel Museum Gerard Levi Photography Prize (2016), Artis Project Development Grant (2016), Artport residency (2015/16), Cité Internationale des Art, Paris (2012), and Israel Ministry of Culture Prize for Young Artists (2010).
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ROSENFELD GALLERY
- Address
- 1 Shvil HaMif'al St. , 66535, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- Phone
- +97235229044
- gallery@rg.co.il
- Website
- www.rg.co.il
Founded by Eliezer Rosenfeld in 1948, the Rosenfeld Gallery in Tel Aviv has become one of the most prominent exhibition spaces in the local art scene. Since 1995, under the ownership and direction of Zaki Rosenfeld, the gallery has shifted its focus to contemporary art and the discovery of new talent. It represents an impressive roster of artists, featuring both up-and-coming talents and established names like Roee Rosen and Zoya Cherkassky, each playing a vital role in transforming Israeli art.
In 2009, the gallery relocated to south Tel Aviv, an industrial area that is rapidly evolving into a key destination in the local art scene, now home to numerous artists’ studios. Over the past few years, Rosenfeld Gallery has become a must-see destination, a worthwhile stop on the local gallery circuit, and one of the brightest spots on the local art map.