Studio is unique
The bimonthly magazine documents Israel’s art events and offers the small but lively arts community a forum for exchange, discussion and information. Sound criticism, discussion and professional debate with domestic and international trends and events in all fields of the plastic arts, Design and architecture form part of the magazine. In these spheres, Studio is unique in the Israeli media landscape.
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At the same time, it also serves as a barometer of social trends in an active, constantly moving society and also as a critical observer of these changes.
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The plastic, symbolic arts play a negligible role both in religious and in socialist-pioneering Judaism. Against the background of the current severe problems of the Israeli society, the plastic arts could not maintain until now the status they naturally deserve in such a culturally rich society. Studio acts in opposition to this situation. The magazine offers artists and interested laymen as well as people entering the arts a forum for discussion of the status on this cultural sphere and for becoming informed in a profound and comprehensive way about the Israeli and the international scene.
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Jewishness as Identity in Young Israeli Art

In the past year a new and surprising tendency is discernible in Israeli art – young artists are extensively preoccupied with their Jewish identity, while employing and adopting classical Jewish symbols from the Judaic reservoir, and even more surprisingly – from the well-known anti-Semitic repertory. This is an unprecedented phenomenon. Since its very outset, Israeli art has striven to establish a universalism and Israeliness distinctly detached from any reference to Jewishness. In fact, since the first generation of Israeli art that brought the preoccupation with Judaica with it from Europe, the engagement with Jewishness in art was almost taboo. Moshe Gershuni was the first to violate that taboo. Michael Sgan-Cohen also made such attempts in other ways. Nowadays we are concerned with a sweeping phenomenon, rather than an individual caprice.
The roots of this phenomenon are unclear. It could be related to the outbreak of the Intifada (Palestinian uprising) and to Israel’s situation in the international scene. These are issues yet to be explored. In any event, we are looking at a new, unique phenomenon that is bound to have an impact on the public sphere in Israel. Studio is currently planning a special issue that will delve into this subject.