EXHIBITION “The Aleph” A solo Show of installation by Achia Anzi at Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP) > 24th August to 2nd October 2016

Achia Anzi 

Time :
Tuesday to Friday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. 
Saturdays & Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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Entry : Free

Venue : Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001
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Event Description : EXHIBITION “The Aleph” A solo Show of installation by Achia Anzi.

About the art intallation: The artist Achia Anzi has created an artistic installation inspired from the short story “The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges. This tale, long since evolved into a cult object in the literary world, presents multiple possible interpretations, among which is included a reading into existentialism, based on the idea of man’s inability to to face eternity. This idea is present in many of the Borges stories and in his study and understanding of pre-existentialist authors like Søren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, and Arthur Schopenhauer.

About the artist: Achia Anzi. Born in Israel, 1979. Achia Anzi did his MFA & BFA in Sculpture from the University of Rajasthan, in 2004- 2010, Diploma and BA in Urdu Honors, from The National Council for Promotion of the Urdu, in 2008. He also obtained MA in History of Art from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi, 2011 and has been living in India for the last 13 years. His first solo was "Peaceful be your return O lovely bird, from warm lands back to my window…" at Gallery Threshold, in March 12. The artist deals with the spiritual crisis (besides the political and the Social) Israel is experiencing and also his own personal feelings towards the place he hails from. Many in Israel claim that the Zionist dream is over, that now one stands on a different point, which could be called post Zionism. The Artist desires to reflect again, through his sculptures, on those old ideals and vision, not in order to reawaken them from their eternal sleep but as a gesture of mourning and longing. He uses iron, plaster, tin sheet and scrap materials for his sculptures and sculptural installations. The works are crude, coarse as to convey feelings of pain and destruction. His second solo exhibition “Land of Nod“ was at Gallery Threshold, New Delhi in January 2015. Select group shows are, Artist House, "Nimrod Descendants", curated by Gideon Ofrat, Jerusalem, Israel, 2011. "Lost Sparrow", Threshold Gallery & India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India, 2011. Graduates Exhibition, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, 2008. Graduates Exhibition, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, 2008. Select publications, articles and books in Hebrew are: Manto Short Stories in Editing, HaKibbutz HaMeuhad, translation from Urdu into Hebrew, 2011. Goddess of the Mountain: Goddess Gohna Celebrations, NRG Online Magazine, Daramkut, India, 2010. Freestyle Monks: Indians End the Cumbamelah, NRG Online Magazine, Haridwar, India, 2010. Ritual Bathing & Chai, NRG Online Magazine, NRG Online Magazine, Haridwar, India, 2010. What Do You Know? The Sufi Mystic is not in search of Knowledge, NRG Online Magazine, India, 2009. The Poet that Drowned in the Sea of Love (with translation of Hazrat Ameer Khusrau from Urdu and Persian), NRG Online Magazine, India, 2008. The Holy Revolution (with translation of Kabir from Hindi), NRG Online Magazine, Israel, 2007. When The Israeli met The Other, YNET Magazine, Israel, 2007. His Residencies and Awards include: Administrative Office Assistant at The Sufi Saint School for Promotion of Hindu-Muslim Inter-religious Education & Support of under-privileged children, Ajmer, India, 2006. Indian Sculpture (Shiva) Order, Erez Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2009. Supported Residency at Jawahar Kala Kendara studio, Jaipur, 2007. Product Designer & Developer at the Jaipur Sculpting Studio Workshop, Jaipur,India, 1998. Israeli Defence Force Leadership Award, 2006-08. Achia Anzi is a visiting professor of Hebrew at Jawaharlal Nehru University and lives and works in Delhi.

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