Kavanism
Exhibited at Fundbüro 2023, Berlin
PROLOG | PERSÖNLICHES
(Interview in englischer Sprache) Avi, imagine that you would receive us in the studio or at home. Where do we talk together, where do we meet? We would meet at my beautiful Altbau’s studio, located in a former Greek restaurant in Schoeneberg. Maybe we are sitting in your favorite place? My favorite place is the walls of the studio and the secrets they hide inside. You were born in Haifa, Israel, in 1973. Today you live and work in Berlin, Germany. What stations and people have particularly shaped you in your life so far? Most of my life I grew up in Haifa, in the Bat Galim neighborhood at the foot of the mountain and by the sea. At a relatively late age, 27, I took a backpack and traveled in Spain. I’ve been living there for a year. I’ve also lived in Tel Aviv for a short time but I didn’t like the „big city“ that much. I believe that most of my influence comes from my home, my parents who immigrated from Morocco to Israel, and on the other hand the Israeli environment, most of which was based on European culture and the memory of the Holocaust. As a child I often felt foreign, but over the years I found love and inspiration in that feeling.
Which writers do you find exciting at the moment and which books can be found on your bookshelf? Our house is full of books, they almost took over, they are next to the bed, behind the reading lamp and under, in the kitchen cupboards, everywhere. Which books have influenced or shaped you? The first of them was in my twenties, “Life as a parable” by the Israeli writer Pinchas Sade. It was his first book written in the very young Israel, in 1958, that discussed personal thoughts and questions about life as an individual and not as a collective. What are you currently reading and where does the book lie at hand? Lately, it’s been hard for me to devote myself completely to just one book and to disconnect myself. I’m so excited about projects that are coming to fruition in my life right now that I myself write books in my head every day. But the books surrounding our bed a like a guardian golem, watching us while we sleep. What music do you listen to and when? Almost every morning I do 5 minutes of physical excercise to the sounds of Stravinsky’s early piano sonatas, I highly recommend it!
Kavanism
Exhibited at Fundbüro 2023, Berlin
Through the Kavanism the single interrupted line comes to represent the ''change'', the crack or the desire to detach from the course of the current stream of things to the point of creating a life of its own. This disengagement requires formidable forces since the current accepted line is heavy and stable and will wipe out and eliminate any attempt to resist or disengage from it. But the process of tectonic detachment from the old generation and its outdated ideas are inevitable, and sooner or later the new ideas are going to get a life of their own in the form of a counter line with a life and desires of their own. The black line on the wall for the viewer is meaningless, an aesthetic dawn line, it is like a gecko, but this line is charged with enormous energy that is interrupted by the beginning of a new independent pure direction.
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Over time, the artist learns that all the virtual ways for his personal progress and growth do not work. At best, he is forced to understand that his way to self- and spiritual growth is only through society and personal and human encounters.
Contemporary art is currently limited and dedicated to a dream in which the artist needs to improve his marketing skills more than what he creates for and for whom. The bookshelves are full of books that come to plan the artist to be a source for money and trade and not as a source of expression of the inner soul.
A work of art whose sole purpose is to be sold is meaningless. In "kavanism" or in any art form or "ism".
Fundbüro 2023, Berlin
