Friday Cultural Supplement 1
Adi Nes, Israeli-born half Kurdish half Iranian gay photographer gives you a gay look of the Middle East...
Nes' most famous piece recalls Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, replacing the characters with young male Israeli soldiers. A print sold at auction in 
Sotheby's for 2,000 in 2005, and another for 4,000 in 2007. The work appeared on the front page of the New York Times in May, 2008.
This is what he has to say about his work:
“My staged photographs are oversized and often recall well-known scenes from Art History and Western Civilization combined with personal experiences based on my life as a gay youth growing up in a small town on the periphery of Israeli society.”
Post-Zyonist
And th OK Centre in Austria, where his works were shown, reviewed them thus:
"Meticulously staged photography, a wealth of details and references. In a tradition similar to Jeff Wall, Nes composes densely charged photographic tableaus: scenes from the life of a soldier and from the everyday life of young (Mizrahim) men, whose bodies show beauty, passivity and vulnerability. In addition to its inscription in the visual cultural history of the west and of Israel, Nes is interested in the subversion of the ideal of male Zionist bodies through references to homosexually connoted images and to the Jews of Arab origins."
Adi Nes belongs to the artist generation of the nineties, who especially address issues of gender identity. Some of these young artists take a post-Zionist approach that is expressed in the destruction of myths and other "sacred cows" in relation to the Israeli army.
Adi was born in 1966, studied photography from 1989 to 1992 at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. From 1996 to 1997 he studied multimedia at the Sivan Computer School, Department of Multimedia & Programming in Tel Aviv.
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if someone can, than the gays will be the ones to unite the middle east. we can see it already at the gay pride in Israel, the one place where people come from all different countries and have fun together. good work by the way.
eldadevata wrote on 08/12:if someone can, than the gays will be the ones to unite the middle east. we can see it already at the gay pride in Israel, the one place where people come from all different countries and have fun together. good work by the way.
Maybe unite the middle east with a common enemy: the sodomites
milagro wrote on 08/12:eldadevata wrote on 08/12:if someone can, than the gays will be the ones to unite the middle east. we can see it already at the gay pride in Israel, the one place where people come from all different countries and have fun together. good work by the way.
Maybe unite the middle east with a common enemy: the sodomites
we are not the one to unite them in the way you point it out, it is their ignorance, fear and hate that unites them for a very short time. but I get watt you are saying, and unfortunately it is true.
watt I mean is that gay love transcends borders, because it is within its own nature to do that. we could see it in Israeli movies like the Bubble.
probably this is one major fear we inspire, that we don’t respect their basic taboos, we brake them with our own existence, and we don’t stop there.
the gay rights movement has shown its power for fighting for all human rights, against racial and any type of discrimination.
I think gay love was the base for the story of Romeo and Juliet, and the story of the Little Mermaid, and all ancient heroic love stories, where based on Eros not Aphrodite.
I believe we have the power to change the world, if only we realise it.
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