New exhibition and book release!

During Lee Yanor’s current exhibition at Zimack Gallery, in Tel Aviv, The Jewish Theatre presents LEE -An exclusive and uniquely designed art book born from the success of the exhibition SMALL SONGS at The Jewish Theatre in Stockholm, a collaboration between the Theatre Director Pia Forsgren and the artist and filmmaker Lee Yanor in 2010. The Art Director is Anders Wester.

Look inside (parts of the book)

It is not the exhibition that has now “been released as a book”. Instead it has given rise to yet another work of art.

LEE is a poetic work, a visual flow, almost a film of Lee Yanor’s images. The flow is mixed in with Paul Celan poems as well as texts by Lee Yanor herself, Editor in Chief Madelaine Levy, Curator Varda Steinlauf, and Pia Forsgren among others.

LEE has been produced by The Jewish Theatre and Anders Wester. Wester has from the very beginning produced the sensational communication program for the Jewish Theatre – posters programs, advertising and exquisite books. A trendsetter no doubt.

When Pia Forsgren, Artistic Director of the increasingly famous Jewish Theatre in Stockholm and Lee Yanor, artist and photographer, met for the first time in Yanor’s studio in Jaffa in 2009, it was quite electric. The result was a large work of art that attracted a lot of attention: the video exposé SMALL SONGS, where movement, sound and image were central. Forsgren was responsible for the concept and exhibition design. The venue was Pia Forsgren’s home stage, The Jewish Theatre, a unique arena for cross-border art and performance art. Through her own choreographed architecture Pia adapted the spaces to the piece and parts of the theatre were rebuilt. Besides Lee Yanor’s video works SMALL SONGS and CLOUD 9 the visitor also walked through VOID, a site-specific video piece created in collaboration between the two artists.

For the Grand Finale of the exhibition The Jewish Theatre featured Lee Yanor’s art film portrait of the friend and choreographer Pina Bauch: Coffee with Pina.