סירות, עולים, הורים וארונות, שולחנות וכסאות, ברכת הנרות, אריות ודגים, צמחים
Naftali Bezem
1972
A book of paintings and drawings, divided into seven thematic chapters – Boats, Immigrants, Parents and Closets, Tables and Chairs, The Blessing of the Candles, Lions and Fish, Plants – accompanied by personal texts written by the artist, as well as photographs of him in his studio and working on a project at the President’s Residence. The book includes a large folded color poster tucked into the back flap and comes in a specially designed cardboard case.
- Pages: 150
- Dimensions (cm): 29X29
- Reproductions: Yona Zlosetzer
- Printing: Peli Printing Works
- Type of printing: Cover - silkscreen
- Publication: Massada Ltd
- Place of publication: Ramat Gan, Israel
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
- ISBN: 990023918720205171
Naftali Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. He immigrated to Israel in 1939 before World War II. From 1943 to 1946, he studied art at the "Bezalel Academy of Art and Design" in Jerusalem with the Israeli painter Mordechai Ardon, and after a year became his teacher and personal assistant. In 1947, he went with his wife to Cyprus to meet holocaust survivors, and that had a big influence on him.
In 194,9 Bezem spent three years studying in Paris in the catholic School of Modern Religious Art, and in 1952 he returned to Israel and worked for the "Kibbutz Movement" as an artist and painter. In 1954, he participated in the Venice Biennale of art and had a solo exhibition in the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art. A lot of Bezem's works are in the outdoors, outside the studio; in 1963, he created a mosaic wall for "El Al Airlines"; in 1970, he painted the ceiling of the reception hall in the President's house in Jerusalem, and in 1971, he created the relief on the exit wall in the "Yad Vashem" museum. In 1995, he moved to Paris, established an art studio, and after two years, moved to Switzerland. Most of Bezem's works of art refer to subjects related to Zionism and to the idea of the revival of the Jewish people in their land.
