noam ben-jacov
i was born in Israel 1952 (kibbutz Hazorea), live and work in the Netherlands from 1985 to present. Study from 83-85 nova Scotia university of the arts, Canada, and 85’-89’ completed studies at g. Rietveld academy, the Netherlands.I am fascinated by the simplicity … taking the complexity's of life... the daily... but fascinated...trying to "fish' the small things in life.... In general, all my works are responding to a personal situations or events in my life. Maybe… I am somehow the viewer and the participant at same time, on one hand the center of the unit, however, on the other hand, also the viewer, watching the ‘things ‘happening around… Noam Ben-jacov has been developing his ‘dynamic body related work’ (body-sculptures) for more than 30 years,Creating the work, I emphasizing on the mental, physic & movement. relating to the human body as the ‘motor’, the center’ creating the construction around, with and on the body, paying much attention to the overall contact between sculpture & human body as well as to the sound the ‘work’ makes and just naturally not forgetting the space surrounding it all, ‘enjoying’ the restrictions taking, incorporating them along into this moving sculptural unite. A unit where the human can define owns space, room, saying space meaning the inside and outside space, a room where you can be in… caring it, living in, thought of extension, sheltering with…in.I am strongly believing in very personal self-expression and wanting my work to be as associative as can be, or perhaps just letting the work to talk …to scream… preferably to sing….
i would like believe my work talk better the me so why don't you visit my website on: www.noamben-jacov.nl thank you.noam you may contact me on: nbenjacov@ziggo.nl
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Exhibitions
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Publications
Noam Ben-Jacov, unnameable and untamable
Noam Ben-Jacov determines his works as body-related objects.
Kafka wrote about people who suffer because of their profession.
The audience often pays for the privilege to watch the suffering in order to get purified through catharsis. Noam most probably must know this.
His works contain that u n n a m e a b l e – that provides a kind of magical distance, mystery, nameless might, holiness.
I am staggered by Noam Ben-Jacov’s dynamic restlessness when he purposefully marches towards his destination in snowfall, wearing his sandals. Directly or indirectly.
The world can be understood in various ways. The metaphor of the lock and key is one possibility. If man’s tool is the key then every problem is the lock to him.
NBJ’s performances must be seen in reality. Not only because many of our perceptions fail to reach us from the screen, we subconsciously pick out the significant, much is lost in translation, much disappears in censure. In any case our nerves won’t shoot all at once. And since the body has a tendency to sabotage the attention of the mind by a deviation, whatever we receive from the screen is inevitably one-sided. Something essential might get lost – the crunch of the dancer’s feet on the floor, gusts of air of drawn breath, the echo of metal constructions clinging together …
We see, hear, smell and feel the ultra smell (the smell by which two squirrels recognise each other in the forest). We hear the silence after a porcelain vase has shattered.
Noam tears reality into throbbing pieces and fits it back together. Art’s touchstone is its precision, said Ezra Pound.
The key of these moments is the tension between the form’s brilliant prison and freedom of depiction.
An accord emerges, assembling of unexpected sounds, something new with the sound of its own. Stimulating one sense enhances others as well – synthesis, what else. It whips the senses, adds perceptions, so we could feel fully satisfied with the performance of life. To be mortal and charged with perceptions means both panic and – privilege. For those who have partaken in NBJ’s performances such a perception of swinging signifies an exalting privilege.
The letters that Noam sends to his friends are so special. They are like dance performances. There are hardly any sentences as such. Just a thought, then another – and a dotted line in between. I always read these letters as pantomime. A movement – and the accompanying aerial gap, a dotted line. Then the next movement, something rustles in the air. The picture runs in front of the eyes and in the ears.
Mystical non-material force of life.
*Kadri Mälk
Tallinn, August 2007
* transleted by = Tiina Randviir
Noam Ben-Jacov determines his works as body-related objects.
Kafka wrote about people who suffer because of their profession.
The audience often pays for the privilege to watch the suffering in order to get purified through catharsis. Noam most probably must know this.
His works contain that u n n a m e a b l e – that provides a kind of magical distance, mystery, nameless might, holiness.
I am staggered by Noam Ben-Jacov’s dynamic restlessness when he purposefully marches towards his destination in snowfall, wearing his sandals. Directly or indirectly.
The world can be understood in various ways. The metaphor of the lock and key is one possibility. If man’s tool is the key then every problem is the lock to him.
NBJ’s performances must be seen in reality. Not only because many of our perceptions fail to reach us from the screen, we subconsciously pick out the significant, much is lost in translation, much disappears in censure. In any case our nerves won’t shoot all at once. And since the body has a tendency to sabotage the attention of the mind by a deviation, whatever we receive from the screen is inevitably one-sided. Something essential might get lost – the crunch of the dancer’s feet on the floor, gusts of air of drawn breath, the echo of metal constructions clinging together …
We see, hear, smell and feel the ultra smell (the smell by which two squirrels recognise each other in the forest). We hear the silence after a porcelain vase has shattered.
Noam tears reality into throbbing pieces and fits it back together. Art’s touchstone is its precision, said Ezra Pound.
The key of these moments is the tension between the form’s brilliant prison and freedom of depiction.
An accord emerges, assembling of unexpected sounds, something new with the sound of its own. Stimulating one sense enhances others as well – synthesis, what else. It whips the senses, adds perceptions, so we could feel fully satisfied with the performance of life. To be mortal and charged with perceptions means both panic and – privilege. For those who have partaken in NBJ’s performances such a perception of swinging signifies an exalting privilege.
The letters that Noam sends to his friends are so special. They are like dance performances. There are hardly any sentences as such. Just a thought, then another – and a dotted line in between. I always read these letters as pantomime. A movement – and the accompanying aerial gap, a dotted line. Then the next movement, something rustles in the air. The picture runs in front of the eyes and in the ears.
Mystical non-material force of life.
*Kadri Mälk
Tallinn, August 2007
* transleted by = Tiina Randviir
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Noam Ben-Jacov
Anna Paulownastraat 18 1901 bv Castricum, the Netherlands
E-mail : nbenjacov@ziggo.nl Phone : 31611195927
Web site : www.noamben-jacov.nl
Date of Birth 22-01–1952
Place of Birth Kibbutz Hazoréa, Israel
Citizenship the Netherlands/Israel
Education
1983-85 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, Canada
1985-89 Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Memberships
-Member of advise commission to municipality of Castricum.
Art & Culture Platform
-K.C.B. Artist Center Bergen (N-H)
-De vishal ,Haarlem
-Sculpture Network (EU)
Awards and Grants
2015 Winner of BlauLAUT-Preis für Interdisciplinaire Kunst, Hamburg, Germany
2008 Stichting ‘de oude kerk’, Amsterdam
Stichting Kattendijke/Drucker, Amsterdam
2006 Stichting A. Roland Holst funds, Bergen, N-H
City of Alkmaar (for project ‘body-sculptures’ in ‘de vest’)
2005 Mondrian Foundation
2004 Prince Bernhard Foundation
2002 Project production, City of Amsterdam
2001 Project production, performing arts foundation, Den Haag
Prince Bernhard Foundation
Basic grant, Dutch Foundation for Fine Arts
1999 Project production, Performing Arts Foundation, Den Haag
1999 Gaudeamus en Fonds van de Scheppende Toonkunst
1997 Prince Bernhard Foundation
Netherland’s Ambassadors, Bonn
Solo Exhibitions
2015 BlauLAUT-Preis für Interdisciplinary Kunst - 2015 (video presentation), performance -‘magnetic string’, Kunstenaars Centrum Bergen, Hamburg, Germany
2011 Exhibition & performance -‘magnetic string’, Kunstenaars Centrum Bergen N-H
2010 Exhibition & performance, Kunstenaars Centrum Bergen N-H
2008 Project ‘kaders’ - 7 hours performance, the Oude Kerk, Museums Night, Amsterdam
2006 Theater de vest, Alkmaar (NL)
2005 Galerie 59, Amsterdam (SBK)
‘De wereld van Noam Ben-Jacov’, Oosterhout, SBK
2004 ‘De wereld van Noam Ben-Jacov’ ,De Boterhal, Hoorn
2002 Exhibition and installation for Wendingen Ensemble, Amstelkerk, Amsterdam
2000 Exhibition and opening performance, Gallery Laeven de Key, Haarlem
1999 ‘Body and another Body’, exhibition and opening performance, The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel
Exhibition and opening performance, Cultural Centrum De Tambour, Hogeveen, The Netherlands
1997 ‘Desert’, Gemeentehuis Bloemendaal
1996 ‘Desert’- series, Galerie BMB, Amsterdam
Group Exhibitions
2017 movement-action ,chungchun china.
2017 ‘EEN Velkoppige Draak’ ,70 years kcb.
Kranenburgh museum, bergen,North holland
2017 10 years anniversary -‘kinetica, lecturing & video,
London .UK
International Kinetic Art Competition lecturing & video,
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
2016
- ‘Water’, Gallery Kapberg, North Holland
-Sculptures Manifestations in Duin & Kruijdberg, North Holland
-KCB, ‘Constant en KCB Nu’, Bergen ,NL
-Gallery H10A, Apeldoorn, NL
-Beyond Jewelry symposium panel and presentation,
Parkside Gallery, Birmingham City University, UK
-North Holland Biennale
2015 ‘Object’, C-Lab, KunstWest, Amsterdam
International Kinetic Art Competition (video),
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
Artist Centrum Bergen & Museum, Kranenburg - 3D,
Bergen N-H
2014 ‘Schok’ 2014, Art Manifestation Schorel, North Holland
‘Premio Combat’ Finalist exhibition, Livorno, Toscana, Italy
‘Chaos and Beauty’ Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen,
North Holland
2013 Onder de Linden, Museum Kranenburg Bergen, N-H
2011 Museum Night, Film Museum, Amsterdam
Pucheri Studio, Den-Haag
2008 Lucca Presiozacca, Villa Bottini, Lucca, Italy
2006 Kunst and Koningsduin, PWN, KCB N-H (art manifestation)
‘Pijn en Andere Dingen‘, RC de Ruimte Ljmuden,
North Holland
2005 ‘50x50’ – Kunstenaars Centrum Bergen N-H
‘Stroming’art project in the nature, Oostknollendam, N-H
‘Salon’ - Arti &Amicitiae, Arti, Amsterdam
2004 SBK Amsterdam + SBK Groningen – AA Kerk, Groningen
Links! KCB in Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen N-H
2003 Wendingen Ensemble 10 Jaar – Amstelkerk, Amsterdam
2001 Nieuwe leden-Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
1989 Rietveld in the RAI, final exam exhibition and performance, RAI, Amsterdam
ORNAMENTA I, exhibition of contemporary jewellery, opening performance/exhibition Scmuck Museum, Pforzheim, Germany
1988 Five Israeli Artists, exhibition & performance, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
1987 The Other Side of Design, Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
Schmuck ’87 ,Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.
Copy Right or Wrong, travelling exhibition, Museum Den Haag.
1986 ‘schmuck for head and hair’ international competition,
Schmuck museum ,The Pforzheim,germany, 2nd Prize.
Body-Sculpture Performances
2011 Performance -‘Magnetic String’, Kunstenaars Centrum Bergen
2008 Project ‘Kaders’, the oude kerk, Museums Night, Amsterdam
2006 Body-sculptures in movement, full evening performance, during Week of the Dance, Theatre ‘de vest’, Alkmaar
Opening performance , Pijn, en Andere Dingen,
Gallery RC de Ruimte , jmuiden, The Netherlands, Body-sculptures Performances
2005 Opening performance and video presentation - X Symposium Arts Ornate, Europeans - Lisbon, Portugal
2002 Opening-performance of exhibition ‘Transparantie 3’, De Boterhal, Hoorn
2001 Privé domein –Kunst op Kamers, Lutherse Kerk, De Rijp
1999 Project ‘Images’, tour in The Netherlands: Lantaren/Venster, Rotterdam; Provadja, Alkmaar; 042, Nijmegen; De IJsbreker, Amsterdam; Kumulus West, Maastricht; Huis a/d Werf, Utrecht; Kunsthuis 13, Velp; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1997 Project ‘Images’, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
1992 Gallery in Motion, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1991 ‘AURA’, full dance evening collaboration with James Saunders, Dansprojekte Koln
1990 Opening performance ‘Natural’, Vondelkerk Amsterdam
1989 International Ballet Gala, Stichting Dansersfonds 1979, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam
Opening performance ‘Ornamenta’ international exhibitions schmuck museum Pforzheim, Germany
End exam performance, Rietveld in the RAI, Amsterdam
1997 The Other Side of Design, Paradiso, Amsterdam
Stage Design
1995 Gulbenkian Ballet, Lisbonne, Portugal, chorégraphy: I. Galili
‘Ma’s Bandage’, chorography: I. Galili
1994 Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, The Netherlands,‘Perureim’, choreography: I. Galili
Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, N-L ‘Edges’ choreography: Ed Wubbe
1993 ‘Cinderello’ choreography: I. Galili, Ballet de Grand Theatre de Genève, Swiss
Workshops and Lectures
2017 Int.kinetics association,Boynton beach ,florida, usa
2016 presentation new-York institute of technology , new-York city, USA
Int. sculpture conference, Pittsburg, pen., usa.
2016 lecture &presentation, university of Wisconsin Madison,USA.
2013 -Work presentation, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
-Arco, Lisbon, Portugal
2012 Work presentation, North Carolina College of Art, the Prague division
Master class, Tallinn Art Academy, Estonia
2011 Work presentation, Tallinn Art Academy, Estonia
2010 Presentation-ESAD, Art and Design Academy, Porto, Portugal
2009 Interdisciplinary summer course, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, NS, Canada
2008 Work presentation, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, NS, Canada
2005 Lecture and workshop, Estonia Art Academy, Tallinn, Estonia
Work presentation, Luca Preziosa, Villa Bottini, Luca, Italy
1992 Artist in residence, The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel
1991 Lecture, Bezalel, Academy of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
1990 Workshop tour in Canada: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB, Sturghton School, Winnipeg, MB
Publications
2016 Design Exchange magazine, London, UK
2015 International Art Book 2015, Munich, Germany
2014 The language of Mixed- media Sculpture by Jac Scott, UK
2007 Second Skin, Cork Jewelry, by Ana Campos, (p.17) Porto, Portugal
2006 New Directions in Jewellery, Ivan Astfalck,Caroline Brodhead and Paul Derrez
2005 Exhibition catalog, Luca Preziosa, Luca, Italy
Exhibition catalog, X Symposium arts orante, Européen- Lisbonne, Portugal
2001 Exhibition catalog, Privé-domein, Kunst op Kamers, De Rijp,
pp. 55-59
1999 Werk und Visionen des Tanzers, K. Nelles, James, Leben, James Saunders
Exhibition catalog, Body and another Body,
N Ben-Jacov – Sculptures, The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel
1996 Goldsmith’s Art, 5000 Years of Jewellery and Hollowware, ed. Arnoldsche, H. Schadt, pp. 216, 219
1996 Exhibition catalog, ORNAMENTA I, International Schmuckkunst, ed. Prestel, p. 58.
1987 Exhibition catalog, Schmuck ’87, Haus der Kunst, Munich,
p. 42
Reviews
2015 dance.de
2012 Eesti, Estonian art magazine, full interview
2006 Eesti Ekspress,(Estonia) Kadri Maleak
2005 De Oosterhouters, ‘De wereld van Noam Ben-Jacov’
2004 Noord-hollands Dagblad, ‘De wereld van Noam Ben-Jacov’
Boterhal-Hoorn
2002 NRC Handelsblad (CD-ROM Images)
2001 Noordhollands Dagblad (Kunst op Kamers)
1999 The Jerusalem Post - exhibition Tefen, Israel
VPRO-Gids - Images in ‘Reiziger in Muziek’
Het Lied - Images
Noordhollands Dagblad – Images
Volkskrant – Images
Uitkrant – Images
Telegraaf – Images
Rotterdams Dagblad – Images
NRC Handelsblad – Images
Gelderlander – Images
1997 Kolner Stadt - exhibition photo’s Museum Ludwich
Bloemendaals, Nieuwsblad
Tanzherbst, Bremen, Germany
1996 Kunstbeeld - exhibition BMB, Amsterdam
Cover CD ‘Modern Times’, Channel Classics in cooperation
with Joods Historic Museum, VSB Fonds
1994 Trouw - Performance Scapino Ballet
1993 NRC Handelsblad - Performance Scapino Ballet
La Tribune, Swiss - Cinderello
1989 Wassenaars Nieuwsblad
Noordhollands Dagblad - Ballet Gala
Nieuws van de Dag - Ballet Gala
De Telegraaf - Ballet Gala
Pforzheimer Zeitung
Sud-West Zeitung - Ornamenta I
Joods Historisch Museum, Nieuwsbrief
1987 Metalsmith, Society of North-American Goldsmiths, p. 33
Abendzeitung Munchen - Schmuck ’87
1986 Pforzheim - Schmuck fur Kopf und Haar
Noam Ben-Jacov
Anna Paulownastraat 18 1901 bv Castricum, the Netherlands
E-mail : nbenjacov@ziggo.nl Phone : 31611195927
Web site : www.noamben-jacov.nl
Date of Birth 22-01–1952
Place of Birth Kibbutz Hazoréa, Israel
Citizenship the Netherlands/Israel
Education
1983-85 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, Canada
1985-89 Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Memberships
-Member of advise commission to municipality of Castricum.
Art & Culture Platform
-K.C.B. Artist Center Bergen (N-H)
-De vishal ,Haarlem
-Sculpture Network (EU)
Awards and Grants
2015 Winner of BlauLAUT-Preis für Interdisciplinaire Kunst, Hamburg, Germany
2008 Stichting ‘de oude kerk’, Amsterdam
Stichting Kattendijke/Drucker, Amsterdam
2006 Stichting A. Roland Holst funds, Bergen, N-H
City of Alkmaar (for project ‘body-sculptures’ in ‘de vest’)
2005 Mondrian Foundation
2004 Prince Bernhard Foundation
2002 Project production, City of Amsterdam
2001 Project production, performing arts foundation, Den Haag
Prince Bernhard Foundation
Basic grant, Dutch Foundation for Fine Arts
1999 Project production, Performing Arts Foundation, Den Haag
1999 Gaudeamus en Fonds van de Scheppende Toonkunst
1997 Prince Bernhard Foundation
Netherland’s Ambassadors, Bonn
Solo Exhibitions
2015 BlauLAUT-Preis für Interdisciplinary Kunst - 2015 (video presentation), performance -‘magnetic string’, Kunstenaars Centrum Bergen, Hamburg, Germany
2011 Exhibition & performance -‘magnetic string’, Kunstenaars Centrum Bergen N-H
2010 Exhibition & performance, Kunstenaars Centrum Bergen N-H
2008 Project ‘kaders’ - 7 hours performance, the Oude Kerk, Museums Night, Amsterdam
2006 Theater de vest, Alkmaar (NL)
2005 Galerie 59, Amsterdam (SBK)
‘De wereld van Noam Ben-Jacov’, Oosterhout, SBK
2004 ‘De wereld van Noam Ben-Jacov’ ,De Boterhal, Hoorn
2002 Exhibition and installation for Wendingen Ensemble, Amstelkerk, Amsterdam
2000 Exhibition and opening performance, Gallery Laeven de Key, Haarlem
1999 ‘Body and another Body’, exhibition and opening performance, The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel
Exhibition and opening performance, Cultural Centrum De Tambour, Hogeveen, The Netherlands
1997 ‘Desert’, Gemeentehuis Bloemendaal
1996 ‘Desert’- series, Galerie BMB, Amsterdam
Group Exhibitions
2017 movement-action ,chungchun china.
2017 ‘EEN Velkoppige Draak’ ,70 years kcb.
Kranenburgh museum, bergen,North holland
2017 10 years anniversary -‘kinetica, lecturing & video,
London .UK
International Kinetic Art Competition lecturing & video,
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
2016
- ‘Water’, Gallery Kapberg, North Holland
-Sculptures Manifestations in Duin & Kruijdberg, North Holland
-KCB, ‘Constant en KCB Nu’, Bergen ,NL
-Gallery H10A, Apeldoorn, NL
-Beyond Jewelry symposium panel and presentation,
Parkside Gallery, Birmingham City University, UK
-North Holland Biennale
2015 ‘Object’, C-Lab, KunstWest, Amsterdam
International Kinetic Art Competition (video),
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
Artist Centrum Bergen & Museum, Kranenburg - 3D,
Bergen N-H
2014 ‘Schok’ 2014, Art Manifestation Schorel, North Holland
‘Premio Combat’ Finalist exhibition, Livorno, Toscana, Italy
‘Chaos and Beauty’ Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen,
North Holland
2013 Onder de Linden, Museum Kranenburg Bergen, N-H
2011 Museum Night, Film Museum, Amsterdam
Pucheri Studio, Den-Haag
2008 Lucca Presiozacca, Villa Bottini, Lucca, Italy
2006 Kunst and Koningsduin, PWN, KCB N-H (art manifestation)
‘Pijn en Andere Dingen‘, RC de Ruimte Ljmuden,
North Holland
2005 ‘50x50’ – Kunstenaars Centrum Bergen N-H
‘Stroming’art project in the nature, Oostknollendam, N-H
‘Salon’ - Arti &Amicitiae, Arti, Amsterdam
2004 SBK Amsterdam + SBK Groningen – AA Kerk, Groningen
Links! KCB in Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen N-H
2003 Wendingen Ensemble 10 Jaar – Amstelkerk, Amsterdam
2001 Nieuwe leden-Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
1989 Rietveld in the RAI, final exam exhibition and performance, RAI, Amsterdam
ORNAMENTA I, exhibition of contemporary jewellery, opening performance/exhibition Scmuck Museum, Pforzheim, Germany
1988 Five Israeli Artists, exhibition & performance, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
1987 The Other Side of Design, Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
Schmuck ’87 ,Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.
Copy Right or Wrong, travelling exhibition, Museum Den Haag.
1986 ‘schmuck for head and hair’ international competition,
Schmuck museum ,The Pforzheim,germany, 2nd Prize.
Body-Sculpture Performances
2011 Performance -‘Magnetic String’, Kunstenaars Centrum Bergen
2008 Project ‘Kaders’, the oude kerk, Museums Night, Amsterdam
2006 Body-sculptures in movement, full evening performance, during Week of the Dance, Theatre ‘de vest’, Alkmaar
Opening performance , Pijn, en Andere Dingen,
Gallery RC de Ruimte , jmuiden, The Netherlands, Body-sculptures Performances
2005 Opening performance and video presentation - X Symposium Arts Ornate, Europeans - Lisbon, Portugal
2002 Opening-performance of exhibition ‘Transparantie 3’, De Boterhal, Hoorn
2001 Privé domein –Kunst op Kamers, Lutherse Kerk, De Rijp
1999 Project ‘Images’, tour in The Netherlands: Lantaren/Venster, Rotterdam; Provadja, Alkmaar; 042, Nijmegen; De IJsbreker, Amsterdam; Kumulus West, Maastricht; Huis a/d Werf, Utrecht; Kunsthuis 13, Velp; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1997 Project ‘Images’, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
1992 Gallery in Motion, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1991 ‘AURA’, full dance evening collaboration with James Saunders, Dansprojekte Koln
1990 Opening performance ‘Natural’, Vondelkerk Amsterdam
1989 International Ballet Gala, Stichting Dansersfonds 1979, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam
Opening performance ‘Ornamenta’ international exhibitions schmuck museum Pforzheim, Germany
End exam performance, Rietveld in the RAI, Amsterdam
1997 The Other Side of Design, Paradiso, Amsterdam
Stage Design
1995 Gulbenkian Ballet, Lisbonne, Portugal, chorégraphy: I. Galili
‘Ma’s Bandage’, chorography: I. Galili
1994 Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, The Netherlands,‘Perureim’, choreography: I. Galili
Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, N-L ‘Edges’ choreography: Ed Wubbe
1993 ‘Cinderello’ choreography: I. Galili, Ballet de Grand Theatre de Genève, Swiss
Workshops and Lectures
2017 Int.kinetics association,Boynton beach ,florida, usa
2016 presentation new-York institute of technology , new-York city, USA
Int. sculpture conference, Pittsburg, pen., usa.
2016 lecture &presentation, university of Wisconsin Madison,USA.
2013 -Work presentation, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
-Arco, Lisbon, Portugal
2012 Work presentation, North Carolina College of Art, the Prague division
Master class, Tallinn Art Academy, Estonia
2011 Work presentation, Tallinn Art Academy, Estonia
2010 Presentation-ESAD, Art and Design Academy, Porto, Portugal
2009 Interdisciplinary summer course, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, NS, Canada
2008 Work presentation, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, NS, Canada
2005 Lecture and workshop, Estonia Art Academy, Tallinn, Estonia
Work presentation, Luca Preziosa, Villa Bottini, Luca, Italy
1992 Artist in residence, The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel
1991 Lecture, Bezalel, Academy of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
1990 Workshop tour in Canada: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB, Sturghton School, Winnipeg, MB
Publications
2016 Design Exchange magazine, London, UK
2015 International Art Book 2015, Munich, Germany
2014 The language of Mixed- media Sculpture by Jac Scott, UK
2007 Second Skin, Cork Jewelry, by Ana Campos, (p.17) Porto, Portugal
2006 New Directions in Jewellery, Ivan Astfalck,Caroline Brodhead and Paul Derrez
2005 Exhibition catalog, Luca Preziosa, Luca, Italy
Exhibition catalog, X Symposium arts orante, Européen- Lisbonne, Portugal
2001 Exhibition catalog, Privé-domein, Kunst op Kamers, De Rijp,
pp. 55-59
1999 Werk und Visionen des Tanzers, K. Nelles, James, Leben, James Saunders
Exhibition catalog, Body and another Body,
N Ben-Jacov – Sculptures, The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel
1996 Goldsmith’s Art, 5000 Years of Jewellery and Hollowware, ed. Arnoldsche, H. Schadt, pp. 216, 219
1996 Exhibition catalog, ORNAMENTA I, International Schmuckkunst, ed. Prestel, p. 58.
1987 Exhibition catalog, Schmuck ’87, Haus der Kunst, Munich,
p. 42
Reviews
2015 dance.de
2012 Eesti, Estonian art magazine, full interview
2006 Eesti Ekspress,(Estonia) Kadri Maleak
2005 De Oosterhouters, ‘De wereld van Noam Ben-Jacov’
2004 Noord-hollands Dagblad, ‘De wereld van Noam Ben-Jacov’
Boterhal-Hoorn
2002 NRC Handelsblad (CD-ROM Images)
2001 Noordhollands Dagblad (Kunst op Kamers)
1999 The Jerusalem Post - exhibition Tefen, Israel
VPRO-Gids - Images in ‘Reiziger in Muziek’
Het Lied - Images
Noordhollands Dagblad – Images
Volkskrant – Images
Uitkrant – Images
Telegraaf – Images
Rotterdams Dagblad – Images
NRC Handelsblad – Images
Gelderlander – Images
1997 Kolner Stadt - exhibition photo’s Museum Ludwich
Bloemendaals, Nieuwsblad
Tanzherbst, Bremen, Germany
1996 Kunstbeeld - exhibition BMB, Amsterdam
Cover CD ‘Modern Times’, Channel Classics in cooperation
with Joods Historic Museum, VSB Fonds
1994 Trouw - Performance Scapino Ballet
1993 NRC Handelsblad - Performance Scapino Ballet
La Tribune, Swiss - Cinderello
1989 Wassenaars Nieuwsblad
Noordhollands Dagblad - Ballet Gala
Nieuws van de Dag - Ballet Gala
De Telegraaf - Ballet Gala
Pforzheimer Zeitung
Sud-West Zeitung - Ornamenta I
Joods Historisch Museum, Nieuwsbrief
1987 Metalsmith, Society of North-American Goldsmiths, p. 33
Abendzeitung Munchen - Schmuck ’87
1986 Pforzheim - Schmuck fur Kopf und Haar
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publications from cv,(noamben-jacov.nl)
Noam Ben-Jacov, unnameable and untamable
Noam Ben-Jacov determines his works as body-related objects.
Kafka wrote about people who suffer because of their profession.
The audience often pays for the privilege to watch the suffering in order to get purified through catharsis. Noam most probably must know this.
His works contain that u n n a m e a b l e – that provides a kind of magical distance, mystery, nameless might, holiness.
I am staggered by Noam Ben-Jacov’s dynamic restlessness when he purposefully marches towards his destination in snowfall, wearing his sandals. Directly or indirectly.
The world can be understood in various ways. The metaphor of the lock and key is one possibility. If man’s tool is the key then every problem is the lock to him.
NBJ’s performances must be seen in reality. Not only because many of our perceptions fail to reach us from the screen, we subconsciously pick out the significant, much is lost in translation, much disappears in censure. In any case our nerves won’t shoot all at once. And since the body has a tendency to sabotage the attention of the mind by a deviation, whatever we receive from the screen is inevitably one-sided. Something essential might get lost – the crunch of the dancer’s feet on the floor, gusts of air of drawn breath, the echo of metal constructions clinging together …
We see, hear, smell and feel the ultra smell (the smell by which two squirrels recognise each other in the forest). We hear the silence after a porcelain vase has shattered.
Noam tears reality into throbbing pieces and fits it back together. Art’s touchstone is its precision, said Ezra Pound.
The key of these moments is the tension between the form’s brilliant prison and freedom of depiction.
An accord emerges, assembling of unexpected sounds, something new with the sound of its own. Stimulating one sense enhances others as well – synthesis, what else. It whips the senses, adds perceptions, so we could feel fully satisfied with the performance of life. To be mortal and charged with perceptions means both panic and – privilege. For those who have partaken in NBJ’s performances such a perception of swinging signifies an exalting privilege.
The letters that Noam sends to his friends are so special. They are like dance performances. There are hardly any sentences as such. Just a thought, then another – and a dotted line in between. I always read these letters as pantomime. A movement – and the accompanying aerial gap, a dotted line. Then the next movement, something rustles in the air. The picture runs in front of the eyes and in the ears.
Mystical non-material force of life.
*Kadri Mälk
Tallinn, August 2007
* transleted by = Tiina Randviir
Noam Ben-Jacov determines his works as body-related objects.
Kafka wrote about people who suffer because of their profession.
The audience often pays for the privilege to watch the suffering in order to get purified through catharsis. Noam most probably must know this.
His works contain that u n n a m e a b l e – that provides a kind of magical distance, mystery, nameless might, holiness.
I am staggered by Noam Ben-Jacov’s dynamic restlessness when he purposefully marches towards his destination in snowfall, wearing his sandals. Directly or indirectly.
The world can be understood in various ways. The metaphor of the lock and key is one possibility. If man’s tool is the key then every problem is the lock to him.
NBJ’s performances must be seen in reality. Not only because many of our perceptions fail to reach us from the screen, we subconsciously pick out the significant, much is lost in translation, much disappears in censure. In any case our nerves won’t shoot all at once. And since the body has a tendency to sabotage the attention of the mind by a deviation, whatever we receive from the screen is inevitably one-sided. Something essential might get lost – the crunch of the dancer’s feet on the floor, gusts of air of drawn breath, the echo of metal constructions clinging together …
We see, hear, smell and feel the ultra smell (the smell by which two squirrels recognise each other in the forest). We hear the silence after a porcelain vase has shattered.
Noam tears reality into throbbing pieces and fits it back together. Art’s touchstone is its precision, said Ezra Pound.
The key of these moments is the tension between the form’s brilliant prison and freedom of depiction.
An accord emerges, assembling of unexpected sounds, something new with the sound of its own. Stimulating one sense enhances others as well – synthesis, what else. It whips the senses, adds perceptions, so we could feel fully satisfied with the performance of life. To be mortal and charged with perceptions means both panic and – privilege. For those who have partaken in NBJ’s performances such a perception of swinging signifies an exalting privilege.
The letters that Noam sends to his friends are so special. They are like dance performances. There are hardly any sentences as such. Just a thought, then another – and a dotted line in between. I always read these letters as pantomime. A movement – and the accompanying aerial gap, a dotted line. Then the next movement, something rustles in the air. The picture runs in front of the eyes and in the ears.
Mystical non-material force of life.
*Kadri Mälk
Tallinn, August 2007
* transleted by = Tiina Randviir
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Publications
2016 Design Exchange magazine, London, UK
2015 International Art Book 2015, Munich, Germany
2014 The language of Mixed- media Sculpture by Jac Scott, UK
2007 Second Skin, Cork Jewelry, by Ana Campos, (p.17) Porto, Portugal
2006 New Directions in Jewellery, Ivan Astfalck,Caroline Brodhead and Paul Derrez
2005 Exhibition catalog, Luca Preziosa, Luca, Italy
Exhibition catalog, X Symposium arts orante, Européen- Lisbonne, Portugal
2001 Exhibition catalog, Privé-domein, Kunst op Kamers, De Rijp,
pp. 55-59
1999 Werk und Visionen des Tanzers, K. Nelles, James, Leben, James Saunders
Exhibition catalog, Body and another Body,
N Ben-Jacov – Sculptures, The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel
1996 Goldsmith’s Art, 5000 Years of Jewellery and Hollowware, ed. Arnoldsche, H. Schadt, pp. 216, 219
1996 Exhibition catalog, ORNAMENTA I, International Schmuckkunst, ed. Prestel, p. 58.
1987 Exhibition catalog, Schmuck ’87, Haus der Kunst, Munich,
p. 42
Reviews
2015 dance.de
2012 Eesti, Estonian art magazine, full interview
2006 Eesti Ekspress,(Estonia) Kadri Maleak
2005 De Oosterhouters, ‘De wereld van Noam Ben-Jacov’
2004 Noord-hollands Dagblad, ‘De wereld van Noam Ben-Jacov’
Boterhal-Hoorn
2002 NRC Handelsblad (CD-ROM Images)
2001 Noordhollands Dagblad (Kunst op Kamers)
1999 The Jerusalem Post - exhibition Tefen, Israel
VPRO-Gids - Images in ‘Reiziger in Muziek’
Het Lied - Images
Noordhollands Dagblad – Images
Volkskrant – Images
Uitkrant – Images
Telegraaf – Images
Rotterdams Dagblad – Images
NRC Handelsblad – Images
Gelderlander – Images
1997 Kolner Stadt - exhibition photo’s Museum Ludwich
Bloemendaals, Nieuwsblad
Tanzherbst, Bremen, Germany
1996 Kunstbeeld - exhibition BMB, Amsterdam
Cover CD ‘Modern Times’, Channel Classics in cooperation
with Joods Historic Museum, VSB Fonds
1994 Trouw - Performance Scapino Ballet
1993 NRC Handelsblad - Performance Scapino Ballet
La Tribune, Swiss - Cinderello
1989 Wassenaars Nieuwsblad
Noordhollands Dagblad - Ballet Gala
Nieuws van de Dag - Ballet Gala
De Telegraaf - Ballet Gala
Pforzheimer Zeitung
Sud-West Zeitung - Ornamenta I
Joods Historisch Museum, Nieuwsbrief
1987 Metalsmith, Society of North-American Goldsmiths, p. 33
Abendzeitung Munchen - Schmuck ’87
1986 Pforzheim - Schmuck fur Kopf und Haar
2016 Design Exchange magazine, London, UK
2015 International Art Book 2015, Munich, Germany
2014 The language of Mixed- media Sculpture by Jac Scott, UK
2007 Second Skin, Cork Jewelry, by Ana Campos, (p.17) Porto, Portugal
2006 New Directions in Jewellery, Ivan Astfalck,Caroline Brodhead and Paul Derrez
2005 Exhibition catalog, Luca Preziosa, Luca, Italy
Exhibition catalog, X Symposium arts orante, Européen- Lisbonne, Portugal
2001 Exhibition catalog, Privé-domein, Kunst op Kamers, De Rijp,
pp. 55-59
1999 Werk und Visionen des Tanzers, K. Nelles, James, Leben, James Saunders
Exhibition catalog, Body and another Body,
N Ben-Jacov – Sculptures, The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel
1996 Goldsmith’s Art, 5000 Years of Jewellery and Hollowware, ed. Arnoldsche, H. Schadt, pp. 216, 219
1996 Exhibition catalog, ORNAMENTA I, International Schmuckkunst, ed. Prestel, p. 58.
1987 Exhibition catalog, Schmuck ’87, Haus der Kunst, Munich,
p. 42
Reviews
2015 dance.de
2012 Eesti, Estonian art magazine, full interview
2006 Eesti Ekspress,(Estonia) Kadri Maleak
2005 De Oosterhouters, ‘De wereld van Noam Ben-Jacov’
2004 Noord-hollands Dagblad, ‘De wereld van Noam Ben-Jacov’
Boterhal-Hoorn
2002 NRC Handelsblad (CD-ROM Images)
2001 Noordhollands Dagblad (Kunst op Kamers)
1999 The Jerusalem Post - exhibition Tefen, Israel
VPRO-Gids - Images in ‘Reiziger in Muziek’
Het Lied - Images
Noordhollands Dagblad – Images
Volkskrant – Images
Uitkrant – Images
Telegraaf – Images
Rotterdams Dagblad – Images
NRC Handelsblad – Images
Gelderlander – Images
1997 Kolner Stadt - exhibition photo’s Museum Ludwich
Bloemendaals, Nieuwsblad
Tanzherbst, Bremen, Germany
1996 Kunstbeeld - exhibition BMB, Amsterdam
Cover CD ‘Modern Times’, Channel Classics in cooperation
with Joods Historic Museum, VSB Fonds
1994 Trouw - Performance Scapino Ballet
1993 NRC Handelsblad - Performance Scapino Ballet
La Tribune, Swiss - Cinderello
1989 Wassenaars Nieuwsblad
Noordhollands Dagblad - Ballet Gala
Nieuws van de Dag - Ballet Gala
De Telegraaf - Ballet Gala
Pforzheimer Zeitung
Sud-West Zeitung - Ornamenta I
Joods Historisch Museum, Nieuwsbrief
1987 Metalsmith, Society of North-American Goldsmiths, p. 33
Abendzeitung Munchen - Schmuck ’87
1986 Pforzheim - Schmuck fur Kopf und Haar
'atlantis'
'Atlantis water installation.
noam ben-jacov, Wood, Metal
noam ben-jacov, Wood, Metal
wood construction
wood installation
noam ben-jacov, Mixed Media, Performance
noam ben-jacov, Mixed Media, Performance
'between intimacy and alienation'
About the work ‘Between intimacy and alienation’.
The initial idea behind this work was to create sort of a performance, not a live one, but a static performance, in a way it is a combination of sculpture and theater, a performance in the form of an installation.
By its nature, ‘between intimacy and alienation’ is both sculptural and theatrical, but nevertheless it remains static. once started the process I was in a need of looking, finding, re-defining to myself my ‘red-line’ (yes, later, translated into a transparent nylon wire ..) , how it all connects to one another. Along the way I got the urge, the need to re-arrange things to myself, to clarify, contextualize the work and the process too, the ways from A to Z, the way in which the idea develops. It means to discover where ‘things are laying ‘, as for me, having finished the work is somewhat like having reached the end.
In fact, this work is a collection, a collage of thoughts, sketches and maquettes and video clips from various performances, derived from my body of works I call ‘body-sculpture’s’, which I began to develop in the mid eighty’s (1985-86 and onward…).
I started this ‘collection’ once I began to develop my body-related works, constantly adding new materials which I brought into this process. This particular work (in very short…) existing and influenced by the human body, its movements, physic & mental, which is being presented in the form of dance performances (see DVD’s and website: www.noamben-jacov.nl ). When creating the performance I’m relating, enhancing the contact between ‘work’/object & human body and the space in between them as well as to the sound the ‘work’ makes.
Many thoughts cross one another (concisely (?) or not….) along this way. As result of this search the steps I took become like a collection of ‘things on the move’, crossing from the one to the other, from down to up, from left to right …, emphasizing the interrelations and putting it all in a context of mutual relations.
As to the title: ‘Between intimacy and alienation’, perhaps it is In 4 words the balance I’m looking for in all my works.
I‘m searching to catch, to put all this process into ‘one large open box’, to show first and foremost to myself the connections between it all, and how one thing lead to the other. …..
noam ben-jacov, Installation, Performance
noam ben-jacov, Installation, Performance
'between intimacy and alienation'(continuing..)
About the work ‘Between intimacy and alienation’.
The initial idea behind this work was to create sort of a performance, not a live one, but a static performance, in a way it is a combination of sculpture and theatre, a performance in the form of an installation.
By its nature, ‘between intimacy and alienation’ is both sculptural and theatrical, but nevertheless it remains static. once started the process I was in a need of looking, finding, re-defining to myself my ‘red-line’ (yes, later, translated into a transparent nylon wire ..) , how it all connects to one another. Along the way I got the urge, the need to re-arrange things to myself, to clarify, contextualize the work and the process too, the ways from A to Z, the way in which the idea develops. It means to discover where ‘things are laying ‘, as for me, having finished the work is somewhat like having reached the end.
In fact, this work is a collection, a collage of thoughts, sketches and maquettes and video clips from various performances, derived from my body of works I call ‘body-sculpture’s’, which I began to develop in the mid eighty’s (1985-86 and onwards…).
I started this ‘collection’ once I began to develop my body-related works, constantly adding new materials which I brought into this process. This particular work (in very short…) existing and influenced by the human body, its movements, physic & mental, which is being presented in the form of dance performances (see DVD’s and website: www.noamben-jacov.nl ). When creating the performance I’m relating, enhancing the contact between ‘work’/object & human body and the space in between them as well as to the sound the ‘work’ makes.
Many thoughts cross one another (concisely (?) or not….) along this way. As result of this search the steps I took become like a collection of ‘things on the move’, crossing from the one to the other, from down to up, from left to right …, emphasizing the interrelations and putting it all in a context of mutual relations.
As to the title: ‘Between intimacy and alienation’, perhaps it is In 4 words the balance I’m looking for in all my works.
I‘m searching to catch, to put all this process into ‘one large open box’, to show first and foremost to myself the connections between it all, and how one thing lead to the other. …..
noam ben-jacov, Mixed Media, Natural materials
noam ben-jacov, Mixed Media, Natural materials
'atlas'-'dynamic body-sculpture'
I am fascinated by the simple… the daily small things in life.
In general all my works are responding to a personal situations or events.
Maybe… I am somehow the viewer and the participant at same time, on one hand the center of the unit, however, on the other hand, also the viewer, watching the ‘things‘ happening around…
Noam Ben-jacov has been developing his ‘body related work’ (body-sculptures) for a bit more than 30 years.
Creating the work I emphasizing on the mental, physic & movement,
relating to the human body as the ‘motor’, the center’ buildings, creating the construction around, with and on the body, paying much attention to the overall contact between sculpture & human body as well as to the sound the ‘work’ makes and just naturally not forgetting the space surrounding it all, ‘enjoying’ the restrictions taking, incorporating them along into this moving sculptural unite.
A unit where the human can define owns space ,room , saying space meaning the inside and outside space , a room where you can be in… caring it ,living in, thought of extension, sheltering with…in.
I am strongly believe in very personal self-expression and wanting my work to be as associative as can be, or perhaps just letting the work to talk …to scream… preferably to sing…. .
noam ben-jacov, Others, Performance
noam ben-jacov, Others, Performance
'dynamic body-sculpture'
I am fascinated by the simple… the daily small things in life.
In general all my works are responding to a personal situations or events.
Maybe… I am somehow the viewer and the participant at same time, on one hand the center of the unit, however, on the other hand, also the viewer, watching the ‘things‘ happening around…
Noam Ben-jacov has been developing his ‘body related work’ (body-sculptures) for a bit more than 30 years.
Creating the work I emphasizing on the mental, physic & movement,
relating to the human body as the ‘motor’, the center’ buildings, creating the construction around, with and on the body, paying much attention to the overall contact between sculpture & human body as well as to the sound the ‘work’ makes and just naturally not forgetting the space surrounding it all, ‘enjoying’ the restrictions taking, incorporating them along into this moving sculptural unite.
A unit where the human can define owns space ,room , saying space meaning the inside and outside space , a room where you can be in… caring it ,living in, thought of extension, sheltering with…in.
I am strongly believe in very personal self-expression and wanting my work to be as associative as can be, or perhaps just letting the work to talk …to scream… preferably to sing…. .
noam ben-jacov, Others
noam ben-jacov, Others
images
4 different images
noam ben-jacov, Mixed Media, Natural materials
noam ben-jacov, Mixed Media, Natural materials
installation on wall
on the wall or as lamp-installation.
noam ben-jacov, Mixed Media
noam ben-jacov, Mixed Media
shadow's of black
many frames with lots of blacks
noam ben-jacov, Wood, Paper
noam ben-jacov, Wood, Paper
wheel 1,2
wheels 1,2.
noam ben-jacov, Metal, Wood
noam ben-jacov, Metal, Wood
'room'
dynamic body-sculpture'
noam ben-jacov, Performance
noam ben-jacov, Performance
'aquarium 1
aquarium 1 first in aerie of 3,the way it looking to me here in north Holland after 33 years The ‘Aquarium’(dream) installations,this is the first the others 2-3 you may see on my website.
This series of 3 works was created between the years 2012-2015.
It is about the way I experience my life, my stay, here in the Netherlands (north-west Holland) after 30 years and a little more.
It is real (yet sort of like a series of dreams): at times a bit surrealistic, at times real - very real…
Actually, it is about a family, generations after generations, and… the grandma: she is always there and has been there ever since. She is the representative of the other generation, the other time, the other layer, yet holding the ropes in her hands, navigating it all so that changes…will not be.
The beautiful aquarium with the fountain in the middle, standing at one of the corners: it is there, a bit off-center, yet very central.
It is all beautiful, peaceful, everything is in its place. The fish, swimming on one exact line, do not dare cause any social dis-order to this perfect harmony, yes, they all are swimming in a very calm, orderly and obedient way. They do like all other fish do (at least in this part of the world), talking very silently: ‘Oh, since I’m here…ok, yes, now I understand…’
Looking as if they are all very much connected to one another, the lights are soft and beautiful. But the silence - it is sort of stormy/silent-like.
It is about those things which happen when most household or family members are lying in bed, in the wee-light hours, when you are on your own listening to the fish and to this water fountain, just wondering about the silence…
Then finishing, wrapping up the day that is just about to end and evaporate, looking at the glass …the glass half-full or half-empty, (well, it is quite some time that it isn’t about the wine…), just wondering about the days to come
noam ben-jacov, Wood, Light
noam ben-jacov, Wood, Light
'triangulos'
dynamic body-sculpture'
noam ben-jacov, Performance
noam ben-jacov, Performance
series of collages
collages
noam ben-jacov, Mixed Media
noam ben-jacov, Mixed Media
'the isect'
from the Vitruvian Man into the insect...
noam ben-jacov, Mixed Media, Textile
noam ben-jacov, Mixed Media, Textile
50x50
many sketches on 50x50
noam ben-jacov, Metal, Textile
noam ben-jacov, Metal, Textile
'soloin3'
dynamic body-sculpture
noam ben-jacov, Metal, Installation
noam ben-jacov, Metal, Installation
drawing/sketches
drawing /sketches
noam ben-jacov, Plaster, Paper
noam ben-jacov, Plaster, Paper
images
images/ sketches
noam ben-jacov, Mixed Media, Paper
noam ben-jacov, Mixed Media, Paper