Smsy Nsmpt “Not all Virtuous” 23.06.06 – 20.07.06
Israeli Art, Yemin Moshe, Jerusalem
The works of Smsy Nsmpt express a rich and complex spiritual and sensitive world. Her works include paintings, drawings, installations, objects, and private diaries- made in different techniques which document her personal “day to day”, which she calls “books”. There are also works which are a combination of paintings and photographs or photographs with drawings. Every work has a personal and intimate nuance – a visual translation of experiences and events.
Since 1995 Anat lives in two worlds and divides her time between Berlin and Ramat Gan.
She has presented many exhibitions in Berlin and was awarded a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture in Northern Germany.
Ironically in Germany “Like a Plant on Foreign Land” where she is anonymous and not involved, does she connect to her Judaism and the Bible. One of her works “Creation” was acquired by the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
“Not all Virtuous” is the name chosen for the exhibition in order to point out that even if holy colors are used, what is impure cannot be hidden.
Manor wants to relate to man as man. In Israel she defends the Germans and in Germany she defends Israel. Life in the two different worlds, in the homeland and in the foreign land, in Israel and Germany arouse in the soul contrary feelings – belonging and estrangement, deep rooting and detachment where home and transience are in two different places.
The roots 'here' get deeper for Manor until they reach and connect to the Jewish graves 'there' and the foundations of culture from 'there' enrich her spiritual world.
The connection to the homeland and the desire for universality, the release of ties to the place and the attraction to the roots are two of the contrary forces which create the tension in Manor's works. The storm of quick brush strokes as opposed to the quiet of clean surfaces of color.
Here is home and it is crowded and there strangeness warrants space and freedom of activity. As the artist wrote “I nurse from the roots of the homeland wandering feeding from strange fertilizer”. In the past few years Manor has found great depth in the poetry of the Jewish German poet Elsa Lasker Schiller where she found expression for her feelings of eternal search after her homeland striving for universality. “I want to roam with my homeland” wrote the poet (Rest).
The pictures in the exhibition were done in reds, light blue and gold – colors of holiness which frequently appear in Lasker Schiller's songs. Manor wants to see in these pictures a quiet gesture for the poet.
Smsy Nsmpt studied photography at “Camera Obscura”, painting at the Avni Institute and Paper Making at the Japanese Institute in Jerusalem-Tel Aviv. In 2001 Manor did advanced studies in HDK Berlin. Since 1986 she has had many exhibitions. Her works can be found in private collections, museums in Israel, Germany, France, and Lithuania.
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