Our 59th. Gallery exhibition is dedicated to Belu-Simion Fainaru. He will present recent and earlier works, which are marked by his specific living circumstances in Israel.Belu-Simion Fainaru won a lot of attention with probably the smallest installation at Jan Hoet's documenta IX in1992. His large scale presentations in the Bonner Kunstverein (1993), Arnsberger Kunstverein (1994) and in Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg (2001/2) followed. These exhibitions proved Fainaru's intensive research on issues of Jewish cultural and religious history, especially Jewish rituals and literature. Fainaru's works have great poetical power.
Already before September 11th one could observe the growing interest of the artist with the increasingly precarious political situation in the Middle East. Thus the harsh contrast of title and image on the invitation card for his third solo exhibition is not surprising.

Belu-Simion Fainaru (*1959 in Bukarest, lives and works in Haifa). Since 1993 professorship at Wizzo College of Design. Selected Solo Shows: 1990 Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent. 1994 "Presentation of the Bride", Arnsberger Kunstverein, Arnsberg (Katalog). Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo. 1997/98 "Connection to Aleph", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 1998 "Bait", Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg. 2001/2 "Out of Place - Belongs Nowhere and to Another Time", MUHKA, Museum for Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen. Selected Solo Shows: 1992 "Makom", The National Museum of Art, Seoul. documenta IX, Kassel. "Fluxus Virus", Kaufhof-Parkhaus, Köln; Kölnischer Kunstverein u.a. 1999 "Global 2000. Kulturräume. Skulptur seit 1970.", Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg. 2000 "OVER THE EDGES - THE CORNERS OF GENT", curated by Jan Hoet, S.M.A.K. Gent. "Continental Shift", Ludwig Forum Aachen, Stadsgalerij Heerlen u.a. 2001 "Israeli Art-Today", The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (Katalog). 2003 "MARS", curated by Peter Weibel and Günther Holler-Schuster, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz.