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The show

Terra Infirma , a personal exhibition by Tsibi Geva, the arrival point of the Shades of Israel project, a traveling contemporary art journey curated by Fiammetta Martegani, opens on 5 October at 6pm at the Pascali Foundation. We start from Lecce, at the Jewish Museum on 3 October with the collective My Altneuland which involves 10 contemporary Israeli artists representing the different voices, religions and identities of Israel, to arrive in Trani at the Castello Svevo on 4 October with the solo exhibition Ludmilla di Maria Saleh, Israeli-Ukrainian Arab artist, winner in 2023 of the Rapoport award as best Israeli artist of the year, until arriving in Polignano a Mare.

The three exhibitions inaugurate in parallel during the week of Sukkot - the Jewish Festival of the Huts - a celebration that reaffirms the value of friendship and solidarity, represented by the meeting under the hut as a metaphor for the union of art and culture and, above all , of the close cultural and diplomatic bond between Italy and Israel, told, in all its facets, by these 12 great Israeli artists.

With nearly 50 years of an established international career, Tsibi Geva is one of the most influential Israeli artists on a global scale, having exhibited and represented Israel around the world, including the Israeli pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2015.


The works on display focus entirely on what Geva believes is the fundamental structure of his painting, the very foundation of what he sees as he walks and what inspires him to paint: from the "terrazzo" tiles to the hypnotic glimpses of the Mediterranean urban patterns of buildings around him.

Born and raised in Kibbutz Ein Shemer, son of one of the most important Israeli architects – Yaacov (Kuba) Geber , one of the greatest exponents of the Bauhaus – Geva is largely influenced by his father's work and, at the same time, by the genius loci and society Israeli who intervenes in an important way in his research.

In this exhibition, created specifically for the Pascali Foundation, Geva " brings together" , explains the curator , "her universal vision of the world, with a very Mediterranean touch such as the "terrazzo" style, typical of both Israeli and Italian.

The "terrace", in fact, in Geva's world is not only a stylistic technique, but also a state of mind, which allows the artist, as well as the observer, to get lost in a stratification, a diseased land, of practices and feelings. The narrative in these abstract paintings works in the background, in the subconscious of the painting and of those who observe it and, right here, we grasp the meaning of a painting in which, as in all of Geva's work, the subject is left free, the turbulence becomes docile and mottled, decadent and overturned, layer upon layer, in a process that presumes to be infinite. Because Geva's painting is something in continuous evolution, a question that comes and goes, continually out of focus: a painting that reveals traces and movements of thought: the infirm Earth of the artist and of our contemporary world".

The Shades of Israel project was born in light of the close cultural relationship established, since 2021, between Puglia and Israel, in particular thanks to the precious collaboration between Pugliapromozione and the Jewish Museum of Lecce as part of the ERDF, on the occasion of the 2023 season 2024. With these premises, the partnership between the two countries is renewed, in order to continue to develop and promote the already consolidated cultural, commercial and tourist bridge between Italy and Israel.

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