Ariel Sharon
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From time to time I think about Ariel Sharon.
Above is a picture of a controversial sculpture of Sharon
in the state he's been in since 2006.
See comment 1 for article
from yesterday's NY Times.
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 9:23 PM
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OCTOBER 19, 2010, 11:04 AM
Ariel Sharon Is Subject of Sculpture in Israeli Exhibition
By DAVE ITZKOFF
A sculpture depicting a comatose Ariel Sharon, created by the Israeli artist Noam Braslavsky.
A life-size sculpture of Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister who suffered a debilitating stroke in 2006, will be put on display in a gallery in Tel Aviv, BBC News reported. The sculpture, by the Israeli artist Noam Braslavsky, depicts Mr. Sharon in a hospital bed with his eyes open and his chest rising up and down as the work appears to breathe. Mr. Sharon, who never regained consciousness after his stroke, remains hospitalized in Tel Aviv.
In a video interview with the BBC, Mr. Braslavsky said, “I choose to take Sharon because Sharon is kind of an open nerve in Israeli society which activated all the spectrum of emotional feelings to what being an Israeli is.” Curators for the installation, which will be displayed at the Kishon Art Gallery starting on Thursday, told the BBC it was an allegory for the “inertia of Israeli politics.”
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