I finally found some time to prepare a draft for the catalog for the next collection of prints I plan to display as an exhibition. The collection is called “Babes, Bibles, Bikinis and Burkas” and I think that the title is pretty self explanatory…

You can download the PDF catalog here

As always your comments are most welcome : )

My good friend Galit Gaon is curating an exhibition of early Israeli comics created between 1935 and 1975. Spanning a period that begins before the establishment of the state, and indeed before the 2nd World War and the Holocaust, and ending after the traumas of the Yom Kippur war, this exhibition should give an interesting insight as to how the country perceived itself and what was considered “funny” during those early years.

This sketch is for a portrait of a woman I met on Israel’s business community’s leading social networking website - cafe.themarker.com.

I see it as being digital pop art very reminiscent of other portraits I have created like:

• “Digital Dan“
• “Ayala“
• “Sylph“

That’s all for now…

Mike
PS
I am constantly updating and adding to my index of Israel’s art galleries. Check it out…

A quick collection of links to Techno artists sent to me by the good people at Pacotek.
I hope you enjoy them:

• Vermont / Exercise, Spekk
  www.myspace.com/vermontsyrup
  
• STEPHAN BODZIN / Herzblut, Germany
  www.myspace.com/stephanbodzin
  
• Clown Down / Break it
  www.myspace.com/clowndown
  
• Oded Adam / Legotek
  www.myspace.com/odedadam

I have collected here all the materials relating to my debut exhibition “Digital Zion” and attached my thanks to the many people that helped make it a reality.

“Digital Zion” is the name of my debut exhibition of digitally crafted pop art giclee prints.
The exhibition’s theme is contemporary Jerusalemite and Israeli reality.
It presents the social, political and cultural dilemmas faced by Jerusalemites and Israelis today as I understand them.

To view, review and purchase the prints that composed the body of the exhibition visit the gallery “Digital Zion“.

Digital Zion - the exhibition catalog in PDF format - enjoy…

Photos
Here are links to photo galleries on Facebook from the exhibition’s opening evening:
Gallery 1 | Gallery 2 | Gallery 3 | Gallery 4

Video
Digital Zion on Israel’s “HOT Channel 3″

Gratitude
My warm thanks go to Maia Elder for choosing to interview me on the eve of the exhibition and off course to all the people who came.
My special thanks go to:
Hemdat Goldberg - for the wonderful catering, Ivan and Noam - for the video installation “Analogue Photoshop“, Oren Wassersprung - for this website, Menachem and Orit - for the catalog, Dudi and Udi - for the giclee printing, The Yellow Submarine - for the venue, Hank, Lililth, Omer and Eran for the photos.

Last but not least, thanks go to my family and Lihi for the support you always give me.

Mike
: )