Magasin III Jaffa Books series of meetings with artists will host the artist Mark Yashaev with his new artist book The Principle of Full Disclosure.

The book combines a wide range of Yashaev’s works from the last decade. He explores the relationship between objects within space, the perception of time in the medium of photography, and spans between a personal archive and a universal visual.

Magasin III Jaffa Books series of meetings with artists will host the artist Roni Packer for the opening of her new display at the vitrine – Zero Separation.
The opening event will take place on Thursday, July 7th, at 6pm-8pm.

Roni Packer’s studio practice revolves around color and paint, and the wish to bring forward the abundance of these two on a flat surface. In Zero Separation, Packer’s installation for Magasin III Jaffa bookstore’s vitrine, she takes a step back from her color practice to reclaim the surface underneath the paint. Instead of a brush, she worked on the raw canvas with an iron, highlighting the off-white cloth, creating a double-sided canvas piece. Packer never used red in her work, but in this mini installation she is asking to proclaim Polly Apfelbaum’s red*.

She does that with one thin line at the edge of the raw canvas, a red seam which she uses to set a boundary. However, it wasn’t enough. Packer missed the paint. And so, at the foot of the canvas piece, she places a skin of paint, a surface without a surface. The perpendicular canvas and the horizontal skin of paint are two individual pieces, yet a complete separation is not an option.

On top of the red paint skin Packer sets a sculpture of a circle figure. “And, just as the outside of a Cube is a Square, so the outside of a Sphere presents the appearance of a Circle.” (Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott, p 65).

*Apfelbaum’s exhibition Red Desert, Red Mountain, Red Sea is currently exhibited at Magasin III Jaffa, across the street from the bookstore’s vitrine.

Magasin III Jaffa Books series of meetings with artists will host the artist Noa Ben-Nun Melamed with her artist book Atlantis. The book was published together with the exhibition Atlantis, which was presented by Ben-Nun Melamed at the Museum of Art Ein-Harod in early 2022, and includes photographs and collages.

Ben-Nun Melamed presents landscapes in black-and-white photographs taken before the pandemic, that seem to have been taken from a destroyed past (as the name of the exhibition suggests) or from a futuristic world in which the human race is extinct. A world that is almost as beautiful and as it is terrifying.

The collages were created by Ben-Nun Melamed during the Corona pandemic, she used the remnants of this series of photographs to turn photographic material into material with which she creates a new image.

Ben-Nun Melamed also has a previous artist book called “Half a Mega of Memories” that is displayed and sold at the store.

Book design- Studio Shual: Guy Saggee, Eli Khromov.

Magasin III Jaffa Books series of meetings with artists will host the artist Sivan Lavie.
Lavie is presenting a solo display at the bookstore vitrine- My Lucky Heart. For the event she will bring stickers and drawings for sale.

Sivan Lavie wonders how she can expand a field for the audience, to gift them with an experience of space and breathing. Color and circles are part of her answer. Beat and rhythm of brightly colored dots floating in white emptiness create movement for the audience she imagines, like musical notes, and reflect joy, allowing an inner dance. Thus she creates another world, a parallel universe, more colorful and flowing than the one we already know.

Magasin III Jaffa Books series of meetings with artists will host the artist Elad Larom with his artist book PORTALS AND COMMODITIES, summarizing fifteen years of painting.

During the spring and fall 2022, we are presenting Mona Hatoum – Revisit, a solo exhibition with Mona Hatoum. 

On Thursday, April 28, Mona Hatoum gives a lecture at Magasin III. The lecture is also live-streamed at Accelerator. 

After the lecture it is possible to experience the exhibitions Mona Hatoum – Revisit and Elective Affinities, as well as the extensive archival artwork Deluxe Photo Book 1971–73 by Chris Burden.

Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 to a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon. While she was on a short visit to London in 1975, the Lebanese civil war broke out and prevented her from returning home. She has lived in London ever since.

Since the early 1990s, Mona Hatoum has been regarded as one of the most important artists of our time. Through installation, sculpture, performance, photography, and video, she consistently explores issues of the familiar and the foreign, home and exile, memory and loss. Her multifaceted body of work plays on the tension between these states, as well as on their shifting boundaries. Through alterations in scale and the use of unexpected materials, an object that at first glance seems simply a household utensil can shift its associations to become a threatening tool. Hatoum applies such constantly mutable positions in order to question established truths and perceptions of the world. Her perspective is often that of the individual in relation to institutional structures and to their exercise of violence and power. These questions can be traced back to Hatoum’s own experience of exile and alienation, but are nonetheless universal issues of rootlessness, alienation, and loss.

Magasin III Jaffa Books series of meetings with artists will host the artist Yossi Assouline with his artist book Sacrifice.

The dictionary definition of the Hebrew word “KORBAN” combines two terms – victim & sacrifice. The title of Assouline’s new artist book –sacrifice | victim semantic change, is divided in the same way. The book is a visual wander within the dictionary definition, so reading from right victim to left refers to victim and when reading from left to right reading refers to sacrifice.

The book itself is constructed as a visual code of symbols, shapes and material through which Assouline presents his interpretation of events that occurred from the moment the word “KORBAN” appeared in the Bible to the way it is used today among Hebrew speakers in Israel and around the world.

All the images in the book were printed in a technique called collagraphy. The engravings were made by Assouline from two types of putty – black putty and red putty – on wooden pallets and transferred under a manual press in two colors. Only six such copies were printed, and when he decided to produce a wider edition of the book he transferred the original prints to a risographer.

Session 2
On three occasions in March 2022, Lundahl & Seitl, Untold Garden, and a small group of participants gathered to test an early version of the work Garden of Ghost Flowers, in order to adapt the work’s technology to the participants rather than the other way around.

The focus of Session 2 was on the audience’s participation: How can a group of bodies, through an altered interface with the world (with the help of VR) and a wordless voice, find a way to make contact with something outside of themselves?

Program:
Introduction to the artwork in progress
Workshop with technical equipment developed for Garden of Ghost Flowers
Closing discussion

Session 2 happened on three occasions:
Occasion 1: Tuesday, March 22, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Occasion 2: Wednesday, March 23, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Occasion 3: Wednesday, March 23, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Lundahl & Seitl, formed in 2003. The immersive art of Lundahl & Seitl is a continuous research into the question of how we perceive reality and negotiate its various forms.  

It is a worldbuilding, anti-disciplinary practice of choreography, virtual reality, and architecture – radically repurposing the use of everyday technologies by local adaptation, collaboration, reciprocity, and trust. 

Their works and projects have been exhibited in museums and institutions such as the Gropius-Bau / Berliner Festspiele (DE), Tate Britain (UK), Royal Academy of Art (UK), 66th Avignon Festival (FR), Centre Pompidou-Metz (FR), 8th Momentum Biennale (NO), and the Kochi Muziris Biennale (IN). The duo is recipient of a number of awards including the STRP ACT Award 2021, Birgit Cullberg Scholarship, Montblanc Young Directors Award, the Edstrand Foundation Scholarship, and Sven Harry’s Art Prize. They have been Iaspis studio grant holders (1 October 2016 – 31 March 2017). In 2020, they were shortlisted for the Lumen Prize.

Untold Garden is an experiential art studio that explores and builds tools for participatory design and art installations, virtual sculptures, interactive performances, artificial ecologies, and organic social networks. They are based in London and Stockholm and work across the globe.

You are cordially invited to the opening of Magasin III Jaffa Books, Magasin III Jaffa’s unique bookstore.
Performance by Shiri Tarko

We will inaugurate our series of meetings, with artists and their artist books, with Ra’anan Harlap and his wonderful book Vertical.