Richard Kenigsman

Yes you can

2009-05-04T23:34:00.000-07:00

"Meshuge" pourrait se traduire ici par idiot et le rire pourrait provenir du spectacle que Théodore Herzl observe depuis son cadre " ...ils sont tous fous, le Roi avec sa bobine et les Pères fondateurs avec ma tête et leurs promesses et engagements solennels qui comme on le sait n'engagent que ceux qui les croient....le sionisme n'étant plus ce qu'il était."

RK

That's the law

2009-03-27T15:50:00.000-07:00

"You will find over twenty such "posters" in the exhibition, "That's The Law" at The Gallery in the lobby of the Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University at 55 Fifth Avenue by the Belgium artist Richard Kenigsman. What the artist has done is to take the images and motifs of popular advertisements and Yiddish Theater posters and recreate them within his own conception of Yiddishkeit and modern Jewish life. What emerges initially is a kind of vulgar populist vision of the religious Jewish world."

just don't do it

2009-03-27T15:46:00.001-07:00

"Or what about the Groucho-like head chomping on a cigar that looks like a miniature Torah scroll beneath the legend; "Just DonÍt Do It." A Marx Brothers rebbe? A big smile creeps across my face as the shock of recognition and scandal meet in my mind. I chuckle and shake my head as I realize I am being confronted with a rare combination in Jewish art. Humor, belief and insight rolled up in a banal poster image that aims to set the Jewish world on its collective ear."

Richard McBeeMay 14, 2001

Richard McBee is a painter of Torah subject matter and writer on Jewish Art. He is active in the American Guild of Judaic Art (jewishart.org)

Knocke Le Zoute

2009-03-27T15:43:00.001-07:00

Ah le bon temps de Knocke Le Zoute

kids factory

2009-03-27T15:32:00.000-07:00

" I can't help myself. Go ahead and walk in and laugh. Stop yourself because what you are laughing at is irreverent and outrageous. This can't be right. Laugh at a poster with a big brash kid bursting though a paper circle labeled; "Kid's Factory." And plastered on the image is the injunction; "p'ru ve r'vu. (Be fruitful and multiply)" IsnÍt this vulgar?"

Richard McBeeMay 14, 2001Richard McBee is a painter of Torah subject matter and writer on Jewish Art. He is active in the American Guild of Judaic Art (jewishart.org) and the Young Israel of Fifth Avenue. Please feel free to email him with comments at mailto:mcbee@escape.com.

Happy Hanouka Mary Christmas Happy New Year

2009-03-27T15:20:00.001-07:00

" You have entered a world where your most sacred beliefs and religious notions are being hawked as cheap advertisements. Don't get me wrong. They are not anti-religious, rather his art treats Yiddishkeit as a commodity in the mundane world that needs publicity, and examining and rethinking just like any other commodity in the world of ideas. What a notion!
Richard McBeeMay 14, 2001 "

Richard McBee is a painter of Torah subject matter and writer on Jewish Art. He is active in the American Guild of Judaic Art (jewishart.org) and the Young Israel of Fifth Avenue. Please feel free to email him with comments at mailto:mcbee@escape.com.

les femmes et le Pilpoul

2009-03-23T07:19:00.001-07:00

poids lourd culturel

2009-03-23T01:07:00.002-07:00

tête au carré

2009-03-23T00:55:00.001-07:00

j'aime l'étude

2009-03-22T16:54:00.000-07:00

le haïm

2009-03-22T16:53:00.001-07:00

j'aime la culture juive

2009-03-21T07:51:00.000-07:00

Ah, la culture juive!

Mon père m'a toujours ressassé que je n'étais pas un légume et que je devais apprendre à me déplacer sans perdre mes racines juives. Que c'était compliqué.

Es iz schweye zu zein a yid !

Moi, je j'y comprenais rien car d'un côté il me comparait à un arbre aux racines solides et au branches devant s'élever vers le ciel en quête de lumière, et d'un autre côté je devais me sentir à ma place partout dans le vaste monde et m'y déplacer sans crainte.

Comment sortir du ghetto et courir le monde en quête d'universel mais fidèle à mes origines.

C'est la musique qui m'a d'abord ouvert les portes de l'enclos du ghetto!

CE QUE J'AIME DANS LA CULTURE JUIVE....C'EST LA MUSIQUE !

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