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Jazz Dialogues by Tamar Hirschl at Henry Crown Gallery, Jerusalem Theatre 1-31 May 2026
New exhibition - Jazz Dialogues by Tamar Hirschl will take place at Henry Crown Gallery, Jerusalem Theatre on 1-31 May 2026
Tamar Hirschl
née Rothmuller (b. 1939, Zagreb, Croatia) immigrated to Israel after the
Holocaust. In the past, she lived and worked in New York, and today she lives
and works in Tel Aviv. She is a graduate of the Kalisher School of Art, Tel
Aviv, and studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, holds a
teaching certificate from the Faculty of Arts – Hamidrasha, Beit Berl Academic
College, Kfar Saba, and a master's degree in art therapy from Lesley College,
Cambridge, USA. Among her teachers are Joseph Hirsch, Osvaldo Romberg, Raffi
Lavie and Deganit Berest.
In the
present series "Dialogues in Jazz" (2019), acrylic on paper and
canvas, Tamar’s diverse artistic background can be found in her expressive
brushstrokes and the application of full, thick color. Discernable is the
influence of Joseph Zaritsky and Eliyahu Gat on the one hand, Oskar Kokoschka,
Matisse and Degas, on the other. The series focuses on her period of residence
in New York, created through the observation of live jazz performances in
Manhattan.
Tamar Hirschl
reveals a rich inner world, translating her experiences into vivid, powerful
paintings. The musicians, dancers, audience, and the artist herself become a
single entity, charged with movement and emotion. The paintings function as a
documentation of sound, capturing the moment in which music, movement, light,
color, and the painter’s presence merge into one living experience. Tamar’s art
engages with synesthesia – the blending of the senses: sight echoes melody,
color evokes a physical sensation, and sound is translated into form and
gesture. The painting functions as a visual record of the sound, as an attempt
to capture the moment in which music, movement, light, color, and the painter's
presence merge into one vivid experience. Also in the exhibition are the
original ink sketches of the series on musical programs and newsprints, which
exhibit her great skill.
An additional
work in the exhibition, Fall (2003), is especially meaningful for us at
the present time. The painting depicts fire and eruption – a pivotal moment
that defines the work. The fire bursts from within, shaking the foundations and
shattering into fragments that move in all directions. The work resonates with an
apocalyptic time, in which the world order collapses and at its heart of which
lies a dialectical struggle between good and evil. It is composed of multiple layers
of time: primordial time, in which the desert, the rocks and the river appear; the
future, embodied in technology, space, launchers and satellites; and
chronological time, presented as a sequence of frames in black and white bordering
the painting, appearing one after the other. The imagery is based on Jewish
sources such as the Binding of Isaac and the Creation of the World, and
everyday scenes of children on the road, bomb remnants, and evacuation and
research teams. The work was painted on vinyl taken from a factory that prints
advertisements, a secondary use of raw material. This large-scale work (2.70 x 5
meters) is exhibited for the first time in Israel.
Tamar
Hirschel has exhibited in galleries and museums in Israel and abroad and
participated in international projects for the preservation of the environment
and climate control (Cool Globes, 2007). Her works can be found in private and
public collections. Additional works can be seen in her studio in Tel Aviv and
on the website: https://tamarhirschl.com
Curator: Dr. Batsheva Goldman-Ida, Curator, Jerusalem Theatre
Exhibitions
open to the public - Free of charge:
Sunday - Thursday 16:00-21:00
Friday 10:00-14:00
Saturday from venue Opening Time until 21:30
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