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ideal conditions; investing valuable time in - and more precisely, if we want to be

searching for budgets to finish projects. recognized as distinct - from the rest.
There is still much to be enhanced, and yet,
artists keep on creating and procreating, As part of a country that was born not so long
doing what they are meant to be doing. ago, artists have indeed matured. Since the PREFACE
faraway era in which much was tilting
In a way it would be true to say that there are towards the shaping of the nation and where
almost as many patterns of expression as artists depicted in their distinctive creations
there are artists around. Nevertheless, there both the native and the arriving alongside the
are some up-to-date trends present in the land’s scenery that engulfed them (reassuring

local art landscape, mainly sociopolitical, the place that was meant to become theirs),
basically reflecting the contents of the heavy artists have arrived to a point of awareness
weight-loads of information spread out by about their position within the global art
means of mass-media communication, which scene - a concept that lies beneath the term
are regularly pumping our lives with a “globalization”, which become so popular in
plentitude of reality facts. All this turmoil of our vocabulary. And if this is the natural and
data is inevitably influencing our existences. inevitable course we are destined to follow,

But also these circumstances are evidently the art we are doing would in fact be Israeli
contributing to the narrowing of the gap only geographically, and I don’t think this
between the general public and the art that is could lead to any ominous direction, but the
being produced. More viewers feel closer in other way around.
understanding to what it is all about. In a
land of complexity and confusion to a certain What would be essentially relevant as the
degree, art language is becoming more outcome is that the art made in Israel, as the
comprehensible. art made anywhere else, ought to concentrate
above all on its refinement as a means of

Artistic bodies and minds are dispersing expression, aiming to gain and retain a valued
beyond national borders, consistently and fast. position not only in the geographic location
The urge to know more and to show what where it is created, but anyplace within the
they are able to create is increasingly driving global sphere and, consequently, assuring that
the artists to come near and get acquainted it will be time- lasting and remembered.
with other artistic communities from distant
lands. So it should be asked if, as Israeli

artists, we are indeed making our art different ©2004 Liliana Kadichevski, artist
Israel, December 2004

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