This photograph is by Dimi Reider at the new magazine, at 972. It is a photograph of two people at a dance bar last weekend. "That danse macabre," he headlines it. "Partying in Tel Aviv, a dearly beloved bubble of bubbles in the midst of one of the world’s longest conflicts, can summon some poignant imagery." On the-1000-words-is-better-than-a-picture front, Reider links to pieces by Lisa Goldman and Karl Vick to contextualize the shot.
Does Haim Saban have an interest in this nightclub? He bought Univision with the intention of influencing American Hispanics to join the zionist cause.
Every Latino in the US should see this image. It is a profanation of a revered Catholic, especially Hispanic Catholic, image of the Blessed Virgin.
that’s the virgin of Guadalupe. as revered as the virgin mary in mexico . that might not be something people are aware of in israel. ee gads, this desecration is offensive.
i wonder what this skeletal image is holding in her hands which are usually together in prayer.
personally, i am not against this kind of art. i realize it is offensive but i’m not against it.
If I may help you, annie, it’s a bottle, I think. Plus some kind of rosary variation with Amor symbolism: heart with broken Cupid’s arrow and dominently the Memento Mori theme.
I suppose the wine bottle fits in with the carpe diem theme of the dance club.
This would also fit nicely into the new Museum of Tolerance being built right onto an old Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem
link to haaretz.com
Could be just me but I don’t see the big deal with the graphics in the photo.
When Rome was burning, there was there the height of decadence too.
pg, it looks like a hipster version of la santa muerte, a syncretic saint mixing pre-colombian and catholic symbolism and practices. every bit is an opportunity to be turned into a Coca-Cola logo and squeezed dry of its non-commercially exploitable properties.
ooops. looks like annie got it right, although i wouldn’t doubt that this is a mash up of images of sorts.
Marc
That’s what I thought as well .
This excellent NY Books article goes into the cult of Santa Muerte and its links to narco gangs in Mexico
link to nybooks.com
Very, very Berlin 1930′s.
link to youtube.com
Or the 1920′s.
The bottles above the aura represent the settlements with a crane on the left hand side. The desecration of the Virgen Mary represents “the grim reaper” in disguise.
hilariously ironic that the easy to offend denizens and supporters of the Zionist State consider denigration of someone else’s religious/cultural beliefs to be the height of cultural sophistication.
The difference between Modern Israelis and decadent Rome and decadent Berlin is that the decadent romans and the decadent Berliners at least had the good manners to also denigrate the religious beliefs held dear within their own culture.
Maybe what I read into it is highly subjective but I see it as the metaphor of death, the ‘Ange exterminateur’ (extermination angel) which is Israel and Zionism..No?
Actually, the figure is probably based on a series of 41 wood cuts by Hans Holbein, entitled Danse Macabre or Dance of Death, in the early part of the 16th century in which death appeared as a skull or skeleton representing virtually every profession and the church wasn’t spared.
It is an appropriate image for Israel because the country is in the process of committing national suicide. Our worry should be that it not follow Samson’s example.
It is an appropriate image for Israel because the country is in the process of committing national suicide.
yes, but to be real cultural sophisticates they could/should have dressed up the figure of Death in garb recognisable as being that of Moses, or some other iconic figure, deemed sacred in their own culture, an IOF General like Gabi-the-Ashkenazi-Butcher, for example.
Instead like the true culturally conformist cowards they are, they cravenly chose to denigrate the culture of someone else, some ‘outsider’, rather than risk examining and culture-jamming their own communal-legends/cultural-icons.
Doing so would have involved some actual risk on their part, however slight.
The racist Sascha Baron Cohen does exactly the same thing – most decent comedians attack the cosy cultural icons of their own culture before they choose to attack an outsider’s. Sascha-the-racist has however somehow heroically managed to refrain from examining his own culture and has directed his energies to peddling pathetically puerile racist-stereotypes of others
“they could/should have dressed up the figure of Death in garb recognisable as being that of Moses, or some other iconic figure, deemed sacred in their own culture, an IOF General like Gabi-the-Ashkenazi-Butcher, for example”
There have been several cartoonists doing just that outside Israel – and each time there is an uproar and pressure from Israeli diplomats or Jewish organizations pulling the anti-semitic/blood libel card and demanding legal action against such defamation.
Actually, there is absolutely nothing here that makes a connection to Israel – it’s all in your heads ;) The bottle buildings are the settlements? Could also be the Mexican mausoleums shown in the link posted by seafoid. Nor are the tattoos on the skeleton’s skull a particular Jewish thing. So yes, I’d say this is about Mexico, not Israel, hence the take on the Virgin of G.
I have no problem with iconoclast art either – this one, for instance, caused a scandal in the US and beyond:
.link to rcenedellagallery.com
Anything like openly linking a biblical (i.e. Moses) or political figure (i.s. Sharon) connected to a destructive and self-destructive image of Israel would probably cause the same outrage in Israel. The photograph posted above is a different matter – young Israelis drugging themselves with wine, dance and deflection?