Tel Aviv–born Moshe Ninio is a multidisciplinary artist. Solo exhibitions of his work include the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (1998), the Mary Fauzi Gallery, Jaffa (2000), and the Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris (2001). He has also been featured in group exhibitions at Time for Art, Tel Aviv (2002), Art Focus, Jerusalem (2003), and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008). He received Israel’s Ministry of Education and Culture Prize for Plastic Arts (1997).
Ninio works in a variety of artistic disciplines, including photography. Here, a structure high in the clouded sky suggests the ability to view the world below.
In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture
and wrinkled ties and baseball trophies and coffee pots
I have never seen a post-war Philco
with the automatic eye
nor heard Ravel’s “Bolero”…
Tomb of Cyrus, King of Persia (reigned 559–530 BCE). The tomb stands in Cyrus’ capital, Pasargadae (near today’s Shiraz, Iran). See the Cyrus Cylinder for Cyrus’ role in the return of Judeans from…