{"id":82884,"date":"2021-05-31T13:45:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T11:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magasin3.com\/?page_id=82884"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:26:41","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/magasin3.com\/en\/jaffa\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookstore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Magasin III Jaffa Books<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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34 Olei Zion<\/strong>
6802547 Tel Aviv-Yafo
jaffabooks@magasin3.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Opening Hours<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 2pm – 8pm
Friday 10am – 2pm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

About Magasin III Jaffa Books<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re excited to announce our new home!
Magasin III Jaffa Books and Magasin III Jaffa have come together in one location -34 Olei Zion Street, Jaffa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, we launched the Magasin III Jaffa Art Bookstore \u2013 the first dedicated artists bookstore in Israel.<\/strong> The bookstore supports local artists, connects diverse audiences with artistic practices, and has quickly become a second home for artists, researchers, and art and book lovers alike. On the summer of 2025, the bookstore is moving across the street to become fully integrated with the exhibition space of Magasin III Jaffa. <\/strong>This transition seeks to unite and broaden the scope <\/strong>the activities of the bookstore and the exhibition space, and to establish a vibrant cultural hub rooted in Jaffa \u2013 with a particular emphasis on local voices and artists, and deep engagement with the city\u2019s unique social fabric.
New works by Jaffa based artist Asad Azi are currently on view on the Art Wall<\/em> in our bookshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every Thursday & Friday\u00a0|\u00a0Free registration<\/strong>\u00a0in advance via the link follows the text |\u00a034 Olei Zion St., Jaffa

While Magasin III Jaffa Films\u00a0is aimed at grown-ups, we\u2019re opening a\u00a0creative space especially for children.
Every Thursday & Friday, we\u2019ll host several rounds of hands-on creative workshops inspired by the artist books in our bookstore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each week we will feature a different activity. Details will always be shared in advance toward the upcoming weekend – so be sure to stay updated via our Instagram, Facebook, and newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each workshop session lasts about one hour and is guided by Anna Reich\u00a0and Sandy Abu-Ajaj, and will take place in Hebrew, Arabic\u00a0and English, as needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a>\u00a0to register.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Magasin III Jaffa Books Hosts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Asad Azi <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Asad Azi | New Works<\/strong>
At the Magasin III Jaffa Bookstore, two new works by artist Asad Azi are on view: Red on Blue<\/em> (2025) and Unstable Ground<\/em> (2025), from his ongoing Carpets<\/em> series – a project he has been developing for many years. In these works, Azi weaves together popular carpet traditions with a visual language inspired by modern art – a homage to artists such as Mark Rothko and Lucio Fontana. The carpet serves as a space of identity, memory, and visual poetry – a meeting point of matter, color, and spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking about his work, Azi notes:
“I am a painter who prays through his painting<\/em>… I draw on certain qualities of the carpet – primarily its composition, which divides the surface into a frame and a central field. Unlike the traditional carpet, I reconstruct the frame and fill it with different content. In fact, I create a secular icon.”<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Asad Azi<\/strong>
Born in Shefa-\u2018Amr in 1955, lives and works in Jaffa. He holds a BFA from the University of Haifa and an MA in Art History from Tel Aviv University. Until his retirement, Azi taught at the University of Haifa and at the Art Institute of Beit Berl College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azi\u2019s work is influenced by questions of personal, human, and political identity, stemming from his reflections on his own position as an individual living between worlds. His art engages with the tension between Arabness and Israeliness, and expresses the cultural, ethical, and stylistic contrasts between East and West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Haifa Museum of Art, and the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Azi is the recipient of the Ministry of Culture\u2019s Art Encouragement Award, the \u201cYad Leyaad\u201d Award from the President of Israel, the Rotary Prize, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ministry of Culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Asad Azi, Fragile Ground, 2025, Acrylic on wood sawdust, 90 \u00d7 60 cm<\/p>\n <\/span>\n \n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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Asad Azi, Red over Blue, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 160 \u00d7 90 cm<\/p>\n <\/span>\n \n \n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/section>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n

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Previous Events<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

View our previous events at the bookstore<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Vitrine<\/strong>

At the storefront of the previous Magasin III Jaffa Books location, we showcased a series of compact exhibitions created by artists from the area.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Jan Tichy<\/strong><\/strong>
Marginal Notes on Israel<\/em><\/strong>
2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2007, Jan Tichy, an artist and an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has been researching the work and life of Lucia Moholy (1894\u20131989), a Jewish photographer born in Prague. Tichy, also born in Prague, conducts a dialogue with Moholy’s legacy, striving to shed light on the gaps in her personal and professional history. For the past six years, he has been working as a co-curator, designer, and participating artist, together with co-curators Meghan Forbes and Jordan Troeller, on a comprehensive exhibition centered on Moholy’s life and work, which will be presented in 2024 at the Kunsthalle Praha in the city where they were both born and raised. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 1923 and 1928, after marrying L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy, an artist and one of the Bauhaus masters, Moholy was part of the team that founded the School. Among other things, she documented the architecture, products, and people of the school in Weimar and subsequently in Dessau. In 1933, following the Nazi rise to power in Germany, just a few years after the couple returned to Berlin and separated, Moholy was forced to leave Germany in a hurry, leaving behind all her possessions, including the glass negatives of the aforesaid photographs. During World War II, all traces of the glass negatives were lost. Moholy later discovered that they had been used without giving her credit for her work, and that over the years they had been attributed to someone she trusted, Walter Gropius, the first director of the Bauhaus School. While researching the history of art and photography, photographing, editing, and documenting, and becoming an expert in microfilm documentation, Moholy continued to struggle for years to get the recognition she deserved and reobtain the negatives. Of the 570 negatives she left in Berlin, all documented in a card index she took with her, Moholy managed to locate and regain possession of only 240. As part of his research, in recent years Tichy managed to locate 20 more of these negatives in Moholy-Nagy’s estate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Standard chronology has it that Moholy visited Israel in 1956, and two of her photographs, kept in the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin, whose prints are included in the work Marginal Notes on Israel<\/em>, are associated with that visit. A closer look at Moholy’s passport, however, tells a different story. The passport photographs, which are also presented by Tichy as part of the same work, indicate two important facts: Moholy’s visit to the region in 1956 took place in the eastern part of Jerusalem, which in those years was part of Jordan, so that those two photographs, considered the two last photographs she ever took, were actually taken in Jordan, and not in Israel; in 1966 Moholy visited Israel for a month, a visit that was never mentioned, neither by her nor in any previous research done on her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on his deep familiarity with Moholy’s work, Tichy surmises that she intended to use the photographs she took in 1956 for a book proposal, as she did on other occasions with photographs she took around the world. Tichy, who came to Israel from Czechoslovakia in 1995 and has been working in Chicago since 2007, took advantage of a short visit to Israel and used gaps in Moholy’s story to create his own proposal for an artist’s book, addressing his own affinities with the place through the perspectives used by Moholy when she photographed Israel 67 years ago, and the themes she addresses\u2014photography, documentation, writing, female portraits, and architecture. Tichy’s artist’s book consists of 20 glass plates, as the number of Moholy’s glass negatives that Tichy managed to locate. The panels are identical in size (18×24 cm) to the glass plates used by Moholy. Tichy uses glass as a surface on which he presents, among other things, photographs taken by Moholy and by himself, a portrait of Moholy by photographer Giorgio Hoch, a documentation of her passport, photograms, and filmstock. Moreover, the title of the artist’s book, Marginal Notes on Israel<\/em>, is also a tribute to Moholy, who in 1972 published a book entitled Moholy-Nagy: Marginal Notes, Documentary Absurdities<\/em>, which exposed misconceptions regarding Moholy-Nagy’s work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book Ascendants: Bauhaus Handprints Collected by <\/em>L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy<\/em>, closely related to the issues that preoccupy Tichy in his work on Moholy, is also available at the bookshop of Magasin III Jaffa. The book was co-edited by Tichy and scholar Dr. Robin Schuldenfrei and published at IIT (Chicago Institute of Design) Press. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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About Magasin III Jaffa
<\/strong>Magasin III Jaffa is an art exhibition space and cultural center established in Jaffa in 2018 as part of Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art from Stockholm, Sweden, with the exclusive support of the Robert Weil Family Foundation, guided by the belief in the ability of art to challenge and inspire people and society.  Magasin III Jaffa is a non-profit institution that promotes contemporary art, supports the local artistic community, fosters meaningful encounters between artists and audiences, and contributes to building a more just and equitable society. Its work is rooted in the belief that empowering artists and providing them with a platform not only strengthens the cultural field but also positions art and artists as catalysts for dialogue, reflection, and positive change. To bring these goals to life, the institution presents a diverse exhibition program featuring both local and international artists, hosts artist talks, workshops, lectures, screenings, guided tours, and other public activities, and operates Israel\u2019s first and only artist\u2019s bookshop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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About Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art<\/strong>
Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art, is one of Europe\u2019s leading institutions for contemporary art. Since 1987, when Magasin III opened an exhibition space in Stockholm, Sweden, it has staged exhibitions by internationally acclaimed artists whilst continuing to build its permanent collection. It has always given exhibiting artists the opportunity to produce new works that impact, engage and question. Following the conclusion of its public exhibition program in Stockholm in 2024, Magasin III has entered a new chapter, with a primary focus on managing its unique collection and presenting works in collaboration with other institutions worldwide. Explore the Magasin III Collection here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the Robert Weil Family Foundation<\/strong>
The Robert Weil Family Foundation is dedicated to strengthening democracy by developing and contributing to institutions and projects that promote a sustainable,
equal, and just society. The organization engages in long-term partnerships to support initiatives within the fields of visual and performing arts as well as projects devoted to
democracy, the environment, education, and bridging social divides. It operates through close dialogue with the supported initiatives. Read more about the foundation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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