The Altar Hearth, 3rd: Pawns Court
2024

Exhibition Bezalel MFA Thesis Exhibition, June-July 2024, Tel Aviv, Israel
Curator Prof. Dor Guez 
Mentor Nevet Yitzhak 
Philosopher Menachem Goldenberg 
Rabbi Ezra Yosefun 
Performer Dan Weinstein 
Documentation Daniel Hanoch, Yuval Steinberg, Daniel Pakes

Pawns Court is the third movement of The Altar Hearth tetralogy, and the 2nd constempllation. It’s title draws from the “Outer Court” of Ezekiel’s vision of the Temple (Ezekiel 43). The exhibition was open to the public for 16 days in the summer of 2024. Pawns Court evolved around a logical problem in Ezekiel’s vision of the Temple. This vision entails a detailed written architectural plan of the temple, impossible to turn into a model. This problem inspired activity and action, striving for factual existence regardless of it’s nature. 

Pawns Court was composed of nine sculptures, and a musical score (partitura). The score was placed on a stand by the entrance, along with a chair. it was performed twice, in two open concerts during the time of the exhibition. Pawns Court had two modes of appearance and operation, “day” and “night”, distinct by light and sonority. both natural and artificial. The transition between these modes involved a ceremony performed daily during the exhibition.






Altar 2024 (Son, 16 Month)
led pixel screens, computer (pi), graphics card, cables, MDF with oak veneer, hollow square iron profile, charcoal drawing on wrapping paper placed between two vellum papers, video, operating code ( watch installation view  ;  watch video )
Black Ass
bronze casting, black patina, leveling pipe, lint, fluorescent LED (T8 6500K), waterproof light fixtures, white power cable, external outlets, plugs

Last of Pekiin
local construction sand (coastal plain), galvanized l-shaped corner angles, galvanized steel screws, hollow square iron profile, MDF boards, formica, frosted glass ceiling lamp shade, glue, charcoal, white plasticine, glass bottle with leftover image from 1st movement a, glass bottle with leftover glue from the 2nd movement, terrazzo tiles from the "Peki'in Tiles" factory in Peki'in, Israel
Ha’harel
acoustic elements (condensed black foam), pencil blueprint on vellum paper, lint, bronze rod, iron rods

Voices 2024-2019
white oak wood frames, solid galvanized iron, blue thermal insulation boards (XPS), amplifier, computer (Pi), audio exciters, cables, recording from the Church of the Annunciation (day voice), First Cello No. Two | Bi Cluster (night voice), Quasi - Still (night voice), operating code, fluorescent LED (T8 6500K), waterproof light fixtures, white power cable, external outlets, plugs. this sculpture was one of internal (artificial) sound sources of Pawns Court. The sound was produced by it’s built frames, basically “panel speakers”. in day mode (noon until sunset), it played a day recording of taken in March 2024 inside the empty St. Joseph's Church, Nazareth, while fighter aircraft fly over on their way back or to Lebanon during the war. This voice was synced with the video in the sculpture Altar 2024. in night mode it played two pieces created in 2019 (i) First Cello No. Two | Bi Cluster (ii) Quasi - Still
BWV 1006: I. Prelude
JS Bach Violin Partita no. 3 in E Major was recomposed for Dan Weinstein in Pawns Court at Night Time. An all-specific musical offering from a student to his cello teacher.  The recomposition is a graphic score drawn on a printed arrangement for cello of the original score. It includes a structured proposition for spanning the traditional 3 minutes performance to 20 minutes. The scroe was folded into the blueprint notebook of Pawns Court, and placed on a stand next to a chair, positioned right by the custom iron handrail in the entrance, which had a stack of coal on wrapping papers drawings laid on it. Two concerts took place in  on July 4th and 13th, 2024. Unfortunately the video documentation of the concert was lost. So here you will find a recording of the 2nd concert, audio only ( listen )

Kisses 2024
plaster casts, glass casts, hollow square iron profile, white jute, iron mesh, fluorescent LED (T5 6500K), white cables
Organ (Replaced)
Lint (from a home dryer), round LED lights (6500K), hollow square iron profile, white power cable, plugs

 Untitled
acoustic masses, white plasticine, fluorescent bulbs (6500K), light fixture, white power cable, yellow power cable, external outlets, plugs, rolled drawings on black paper (white pastel pencil, graphite), rolled white wrapping paper, rubber bands
Depth
ceiling lamp shade made of onyx stone, glue, glass, plaster casts, mold, MDF, hollow square iron profile, fluorescent LED (T8 6500K), waterproof light fixtures, white power cable, external outlets, plugs