The Stone Dance - a solo exhibition by artist Miriam Buber
At the Tribal Art Gallery & Israeli Art

Festive opening: Friday, February 4, 2222, at 11:00
Curator of the exhibition: Naomi Gordon-Chen in collaboration with the gallery

The exhibition "The Dance of the Stones" presents works by the artist Miriam Buber, which deals with the landscape pattern of her homeland.
She focuses her work on painting a local landscape and the portraits through which she actually deals with questions of identity. Place and time are present in her works while constantly searching for beauty in the ancient and eternal nature. Buber is connected to landscapes of the land of the Bible that have not changed since ancient times - the olives, the hills studded with stones and the landscape on the border of the desert.
Buber exposes us, the viewers, to her personal mosaic fantasy, as she interprets it. The stone helps it to break free from fixed patterns and thus encourages change and development, encourages spontaneity and adventure, creativity and emotion. She has more than 200 works, a minority of which deal with the Holocaust and most of them have their roots in the country, in the landscapes of the area in which she lives (Moshav Lachish), whose landscapes during the changing seasons are a source of inspiration and endless observation.

Buber was born in 1938 in Poland. When she was 3 years old she was separated from her parents who perished in the Holocaust and was hidden in Polish peasant houses and various hiding places. After the war she stayed in an orphanage. In 1949, at the age of 11, she immigrated to Israel with Lena Kuechler's group of one hundred children and was educated in the Schiller group. Since its rise, Buber has been engaged in art as a life-giving element, an element that defines her sense of freedom and in the constant search for beauty in nature, landscapes and portraits. Her works carefully walk on the border of memories and seek to touch beauty, as if to say, I was there. have seen. got it. Now I create here with mosaic stones, because the stones have always been here, and so has the landscape, and will always remain this beauty of the orchards, of Tel Lachish, of the olive trees and the cypresses.

The choice to display Buber's mosaic works in a gallery that connects traditional art with Israeli art in all its nuances and complexity, now being created in Israel, adds another layer to the exhibition and creates a direct connection to the distant past and spectacular mosaic works created over thousands of years.
The stone - its bright and colorful color and the magic secret of its production - fascinated the peoples of the world from East Asia to Europe and exerted its charm on Buber. The first mosaics appear since the third millennium BC and during the thousands of years thereafter, adorn many buildings, both private and public. In ancient times, mosaic works could be found almost everywhere where a large crowd of people gathered - bathhouses, religious buildings, public buildings and the like. To this day, more and more mosaic works of artistic value are being discovered all over the world, including in Israel, which were lost after thousands of years and are slowly being revealed.

The first encounter with Miriam Buber's works leaves a sense of post-Impressionist stories painted in stone. Buber is inspired by the works of Van Gogh who belongs to the post-impressionist current and creates works in her own unique, free and associative style behind each of which is a story. In each of the works many weeks of precise work are invested to create qualities of unique and meaningful painting using mosaic tiles. She creates the tiles herself, with the help of colored glaze to achieve depth and colorful richness and to achieve a rich and special shade of colors that stimulates the imagination.

Buber also creates in stone portraits, works inspired by songs, portraits and works that express personal experiences. Eye work intertwined in some of her works. Their beginnings appear in works on the Holocaust in which she used eyes from the forest, also in her own eyes, when the figures are hidden or buried in the ground inside the forest. "I can work on eyes for a week. Move and move the stones until the expression I want is obtained." The eyes appear in Holocaust works, portraits, cats and tigers.

Buber also works in art diaries where her fears emerge from the Holocaust period which she has repressed all these years. In her dream she looks out the window and sees a horse-drawn sleigh and does not know they came to pick her up. This is alongside a dream in which she draws tigers roaming outside that instill fear and dread. She dreams of hunger and the bread that was used for barter and in her dreams come landscapes from her childhood years.

Buber has participated in group and solo exhibitions, created work for the Ghetto Fighters' Children's Museum, a synagogue in Ramat Gan, the Lachish Community Center and more.

Visiting hours at the exhibition:
Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 to 19:00
And on Fridays from 10:00 to 14:00
Sundays Monday and Tuesday by appointment

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