The General Exhibition - Safed Artists Museum
The General Exhibition holds a permanent show presenting the best works of
Safed artists - painters and sculptors. The General Exhibition resides at
the heart of the Old City of Safed. Across the General Exhibition there is
the Artists Alley, where artists are creating in their workshops and
exhibiting their art works.
The Artists Colony
Safed's enchanted atmosphere, it's fascinating history and the Jewish
Mysticism vibrations engulfing the surrounding landscapes - presents a
source of inspiration for artistic creation of all kinds - from immemorial
times. Renown artists like Mark Schagal, Kukushka and the director Ugin
Unesku acknowledged the spiritual potential of Safed.
When Israel became an independent state, on 1949, an Artists Colony was
established in the Old City of Safed. The need to establish a focal point -
an artists meeting place - combined with the search after local contents
which will serve as a source of inspiration to the art and culture of Israel
on the make in the infant state - all these brought to Safed many artists,
the forefathers of the Israeli art - artists like Moshe Kastel, Isack
Frenkel, Menahen Shemy, Mordehay Levanon, Ziona Tagar and
Shimshon Holtzman.
As the core of Israeli art forefathers gathered in Safed, artists who
survived the holocaust came along, have found their new homeland here, as
well as their homes and livelihood. Together they established an Artists
Cooperative - the first in it's kind in Israel. They used an ancient
building in the heart of the Old City of Safed to serve as a permanent
exhibition hall for their art works.
This General Exhibition, operating as a permanent show for the last 45
years, is in the process of becoming a Museum of Safed Artists.
At present there are about 55 artists, painters and sculptors, members of
the Artists Colony - including new immigrants from what used to to be the
Soviet Union. The building next to the the General Exhibition was renovated
and it contains art workshops and galleries where art works are being
displayed and offered for sale.
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