Adi Nes ( he, עדי נס; born 1966) is an Israeli

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Education

* 1989-1992

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design ( he, בצלאל, אקדמיה לאמנות ועיצוב) is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldes ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, photography

Life and career

Adi Nes was born in

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. His parents are Jewish immigrants from Iran. He is openly gay. Nes is notable for series "Soldiers", in which he mixes masculinity and homoerotic sexuality, depicting Israeli soldiers in a fragile way. In 2003 he did a feature for '' Vogue'' Hommes. Nes has given solo exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, and the Melkweg Gallery in Amsterdam, among others. His work has also shown in group exhibitions at the Hotel de Sully in

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, Haifa Museum of Art and the

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in New York, among many others. He has been reviewed in ''

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'', and others. In 2005 Nes was chosen as an outstanding artist of the prestigious Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation. Nes' most famous piece recalls

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, replacing the characters with young male Israeli soldiers. A print sold at auction in

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for $102,000 in 2005, and another for $264,000 in 2007. The work appeared on the front page of ''

'' in May, 2008. Nes' early work has been characterized as subverting the stereotype of the masculine Israeli man by using homoeroticism and sleeping, vulnerable figures. He regularly uses dark-skinned Israeli models. The models' poses often evoke the Baroque period. Nes has said that the inspiration for his photography is partially autobiographical: Nes lives and works in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...

. His work is currently sold through Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City and Praz-Delavallade in Paris and Los Angeles. In January 2007, he premiered a new series echoing Biblical stories.Schalit, Joel
Portrait of the Artist as Political Philosopher
Tikkun.org, July/August 2006.

Awards and prizes

* 1993 Ministry of Education Council for Prize for Completion of Work, Ministry of Culture and Education * 1993 Sandra Jacobs Scholarship for Documentary in London * 1999 The Minister of Education, Culture and Sport Prize, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport * 2000 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv * 2003 The Constantiner Photographer Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art * 2005 The Fund for Excellence in Fine Arts

Gallery

File:Adi Ness, Untitled.jpg , Untitled, from series "Soldiers", 90 x 90 / 140 x 140 cm., 1995. File:Adi ness 002.jpg , Untitled, from series "Soldiers", 90 x 90 / 140 x 140 cm., 1996. File:Adi ness 001.jpg , Untitled, from series "Soldiers", 90 x 90 / 140 x 140 cm., 1998. File:Adi Ness, Last Supper.jpg , Untitled (The Last Supper), from series "Soldiers", 90 x 148 / 185 x 235, 1999. File:Adi Nes from Boys Series 003.jpg , Untitled, from series "Boys", 100 x 100 / 140 x 140 cm., 2000. File:Adi Nes from Boys Series 001.jpg , Untitled, from series "Boys", 100 x 100 / 140 x 140 cm., 2000. File:Adi Nes from Boys Series 004.jpg , Untitled ( Narcissus), from series "Boys", 100 x 100 / 140 x 140 cm., 2000. File:Adi Nes from Prisoners Series 001.jpg , Untitled, from series "Prisoners", 60 x 82 / 90 x 123 cm., 2003. File:Adi Nes 006.jpg , Untitled (

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and

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), from series "Biblical Stories", 100 x 100 / 140 x 140 cm., 2004. File:Adi Nes 005.jpg , Untitled ( Joseph), from series "Biblical Stories", 100 x 100 / 140 x 140 cm., 2004.

References

General references

*Gal, Nissim1. 2010. "The Language of the Poor: Bible Stories as a Critical Narrative of the Present." Images: Journal of Jewish Art & Visual Culture 4, no. 1: 82-108. Art & Architecture Source, March 27, 2017.

External links

Adi Nes - Artist page
at the

Sommer Contemporary Art Sommer Contemporary Art is a Contemporary Art gallery, owned by Irit Fine Sommer, and based on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, Israel. The gallery is considered to be among the most influential in Israel for contemporary art. It was first open ...

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Nes' Vogue Hommes (Prisoners) series

* ttp://adines.com/content/NesBrochure.pdf Monographfrom Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
An Interview with Adi Nes by Jess T. Dugan, Big Red & Shiny
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