ARTiculAction Art Review - Special Issuue Aug. 2016 | Page 59

Petra Paul & Ophira Avisar ICUL CTION C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t R e v i e w Special Issue Ophira Avisar: I feel I must be a hunter, obliged to search and inquire constantly for a sign. Any subject I catch in my mind is floundering like a fish inside me and inside the society net. This last net is a burden. The society is forcing a definition upon the fish/idea and we must fight for air/art. This fight is first of all artistic but it is political as well. When Petra and I go to Tel Aviv sea shore and trace our marks we are counting on collective memory and political like propaganda. A temporary flag that penetrates your mind. Petra Paul: Yes, education is very that even artists from Renaissance accomplished the difficult task of challenging a wide variety of cultural categories of their age. Do you think that artists should convey explicit political message or just hint the direction for change? important, to understand things! If you are not educated, you believe things, people tell you and they are not right, you do not questioning anything. I read an interview with the political scientist Bassam Tibi from Syria, he lived there till he was 18 and he said, he was anti-semitic before he went to Germany, because he grew up with anti-Semitism. For me art is politically. The art react to our society, we are not out of the system, the artist is part. I always say, we do not change the world or influence something when we paint flowers. I am not against decorative paintings, but it is not my part. On the other hand there is a change, when you have a look at for example Piet Mondrians work. He started to paint a tree or a church and he ended after getting more and more abstract in abstraction. It is another way of seeing. You mentioned the Renaissance. A mark to public space again. A question is, what does it mean, when Francesco di Medici 1583 put Giambolognas ”Rape of Sabine Women” on a prominent place like Piazza della Signora in Florence? It is a work about rape of women. Follow the line till today, the rape is in wars a form of discrimination of first of all men. If you think about it, it is 29