This is the second artistic collaboration of the two. It was preceded by an artist's book published in Berlin, in 2021. The two authors did not know each other before. The connection between them was made by the person in charge of the publishing house, who recognized common lines in Ronen's poetry and Tadmor's engravings.
Diti Ronen: "When I saw Gilad's engravings, I was amazed. They have tremendous power, including an abysmal vulnerability. There is no resemblance between the songs and the engravings, they speak a different language and they present different worlds, and yet they have a lot in common. It seems like something deep. "It connects the songs to the engravings. Like invisible threads connecting the works."
Interdisciplinary dialogue between creators offers an opportunity for mutual fertilization, a broad cushion for new interpretation and an inexhaustible source for a deep examination of narratives, experiences, concepts, ideas, attitudes, perceptions and thoughts.
The discourse between the engravings and the songs creates a covert play between the text and the line, which takes place in a wide range of modes. Sometimes the engravings expand the songs and sometimes the songs expand the engravings.
The mutual preoccupation, of the poet and the artist, with the issue of the existence of angels, underlies the exhibition, but still the question of what was inspired by what, depends on space.
In Tadmor's works, the angels are, at times, winged hybrid creatures, the product of the artist's imagination, but often take on a human form. These are human angels walking among us, full partners, some of them compassionate. The artist is the only one who sees their wings, and perhaps he gives these figures wings, to save them.
In Ronen's songs, the angels walking among us hide their wings from us. They were sent from heaven to earth to carry out a mission: they must explore and learn about the existence of the human race, in order to tell their senders, the creators of the world, when their day comes to return to heaven. The role of these angels is to experience the suffering and sorrow of human beings.
Gilad Tadmor "My preoccupation with art is characterized by a tension between three tendencies: on the one hand - a tendency, sometimes compulsive, to be precise in details, on the other hand, no less urge, to break through a fence and frame, and above all, my deep interest in the emotion underlying the human condition. "Resins, demons, chimeras make it possible to bridge the extremes. After all, who will stand up and prove me wrong about these creatures?"

About the artists:
Gilad Tadmor, a mathematician by education. He graduated with honors with a master's degree and a doctorate in theoretical mathematics from the Weizmann Institute. For a postdoctoral fellowship he traveled to MIT . After that he stayed in the USA, at the University of Northeastern in Boston. As a professor of engineering and mathematics. He taught, wrote research and advised companies.
During the previous decade he gradually left his scientific work due to health problems. The abandonment of mathematics allowed him to return to the passion of his youth, art. His father was the well-known painter Zvi Tadmor from the teenage group, who established the art department at Thelma Yellin and the house was steeped in art. Gilad argues that mathematics requires complete dedication, it is impossible to take freedom from a mathematical problem because all achievement will go down the drain. In the field of art, on the contrary, it is good to take a distance from the work and return to it with a fresh eye. Gilad made his first engraving as a child in a press in his father's studio. After his father's death in 2012, Gilad also found a cache of copper plates in the studio. Gilad was happy with the bargain and began to engage in the art of print with increasing enthusiasm.
The occupation brought him back to live partially in the country and create here. He soon specialized in the field of print and reached high qualities. Received recognition and with it invitations to participate in art projects around the world.
Gilad creates mainly human figures, friends, neighbors, figures he met and was attracted to. His drawing skill is impressive and the result is sometimes a bit grotesque.
Dr. Diti Ronen - Poet, editor and translator of poetry, theater researcher, cultural policy and arts management, consultant in these fields to foundations, institutions, organizations and government ministries, active in the struggle to promote culture and art in Israel.
Born in Tel Aviv, a mother of five, she studied painting with the artist Yitzhak Saar and in other settings. She painted mostly in acrylic, but for many children she abandoned painting and wrote her ideas for paintings on notes. These notes were the basis for her first poems.
In time she was accepted into the Helicon poetry class and published books of poetry, poetry, illuminated and collections in other languages. Her poems have been translated into many languages and published in prestigious magazines, anthologies and international poetry sites. For her poetry, she has won awards in Israel and around the world.

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