On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) V - Between Graveyard and Museum’s Sphere
This fifth and final edition of Joseph Sassoon Semah's ‘Magnum Opus’ marks the culmination of a profound multi-year art manifestation that began in 2015. Together with curator Linda Bouws, Sassoon Semah has embarked on a mission to augment Western art history by filling its 'empty page' with the rich and diverse iconography of Jewish culture. It has been an amazing journey for the last ten years.
Joseph Sassoon Semah takes us on a wondrous journey of exploration. This extended journey which begin with the Temple of King Solomon in Jerusalem, through the vanished public space (Jewish Quarter) in Baghdad, the waiting room of his Saba (grandfather) and theAuschwitz Birkenau death camp, and finally through the spatial architecture based on the typography of the Talmud Bavli, the mystery of Epistemic Architecture.
Featuringartworks and texts by Joseph Sassoon Semah,and text contributions fromLinda Bouws, A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh / House of Taswir, Guus van Engelshoven, Arie Hartog, Gideon Ofrat, Jom Semah, Lisette Pelsers, David Sperber, Steve Austen and Rick Vercauteren.
‘BetweenGraveyard and Museum’s Sphere’ is released on the occasion of the exhibition ‘On Friendship/(CollateralDamage)V-Between Graveyardand Museum’s Sphere’ (2024)
- Metropool International Art Projects
Final editing: Linda Bouws & Joseph Sassoon Semah
Design and layout: KUNSTBURO Geert Schriever
Format: A4, 208 pages, full colour, English
This fifth and final edition of Joseph Sassoon Semah's ‘Magnum Opus’ marks the culmination of a profound multi-year art manifestation that began in 2015. Together with curator Linda Bouws, Sassoon Semah has embarked on a mission to augment Western art history by filling its 'empty page' with the rich and diverse iconography of Jewish culture. It has been an amazing journey for the last ten years.
Joseph Sassoon Semah takes us on a wondrous journey of exploration. This extended journey which begin with the Temple of King Solomon in Jerusalem, through the vanished public space (Jewish Quarter) in Baghdad, the waiting room of his Saba (grandfather) and theAuschwitz Birkenau death camp, and finally through the spatial architecture based on the typography of the Talmud Bavli, the mystery of Epistemic Architecture.
Featuringartworks and texts by Joseph Sassoon Semah,and text contributions fromLinda Bouws, A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh / House of Taswir, Guus van Engelshoven, Arie Hartog, Gideon Ofrat, Jom Semah, Lisette Pelsers, David Sperber, Steve Austen and Rick Vercauteren.
‘BetweenGraveyard and Museum’s Sphere’ is released on the occasion of the exhibition ‘On Friendship/(CollateralDamage)V-Between Graveyardand Museum’s Sphere’ (2024)
- Metropool International Art Projects
Final editing: Linda Bouws & Joseph Sassoon Semah
Design and layout: KUNSTBURO Geert Schriever
Format: A4, 208 pages, full colour, English