BROWN
PAPER
www.saadya.net
Guest
Book
This
is the guest book of the physical exhibition of "Brown Paper", preceded by post-exhibit
reactions and comments emailed to me
from around the world.
You
are welcome to add your own reaction by emailing info@saadya.net.
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Post-Exhibit
Reactions
From: Stanley
Cavell, Emeritus Professor of Aesthetics, Harvard University
January
17, 2005
Dear
Saadya,
Have
I not written to you in response to the photos of your Brown Paper exhibit?
...I hurriedly simply say that I was startled by the strength and subtlety of
your pieces. I was too ignorant to be able to imagine the experience of
the work when you briefly described it. I also very much liked your
accompanying program statement. Foolish as it is to try to react without
seeing the pieces in the flesh, I have one minor thought to include on the YES
side of whether origami is sculpture (or between sculpture and drawing?). Namely:
there is a sense of magic about the sheer fact of the pieces that draws one to
them to "see how they are done". "It's just paper" is
like "It's just charcoal" .... And this doesn't fade. But it
wouldn't matter if one weren't drawn by the emotion of the thing -- it's not
merely that a trick is to be explained. Any trick here is inexplicable;
there is no trick. Also there is the standing issue the work of these
works pose as between (so to speak) sculpture and painting, namely of the
relation of the work to its support. With sculpture the
"support" is reduced to a base, and advanced sculptors have done away
even with that. In Brown Paper what happens to the support is the work of
the work, and the support has totally vanished while remaining totally in view. (Magic?)
I
heartily congratulate you.
As
always,
Stanley
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From:
Roman Diaz [pioneer of origami animal design], Uruguy
30
May, 2005
Hi
Saadya
I
have mailed my friend and folder Daniel Naranjo from Colombia... Here is his
comment when I told him I had met you:
"Y
llegamos a la depresi—on... Menos es mas dije antes, y el trabajo de
Saadya me puso triste dos d’as... Este personaje pliega cosas que yo he so–ado
mucho tiempo, y es tan simple, tan solo dos dobleces... Cuando v’ sus fotos me
conmov’ como hace mucho no lo hac’a...."
"...
and here comes the depression...."less is more" I said before, and
Saadya's work made me sad for two days... this guy folds things I have dreamt
of for a long time, so simple, just two folds....When I saw his photos I was
moved like I hadn't been in a long time ...."
I
feel quite the same about your work, without the depression part.
--Roman
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Many thanks for the
reference to your very impressive Web site. Having seen your portrait of
Leonardo at the Masters of Origami Exhibition, I am very pleased, indeed to see
more of your work.
Best wishes,
David
Lister
[World¹s
Leading historian of the Origami Arts]
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It
is very kind to send the fascinating image.
I
will follow up the website.
very
best,
martin
kemp
Professor
of the History of Art
Oxford
[THE
authority on Leonardo da Vinci]
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April
6, 2005
What
a beautiful site!!!
Whoever
designed it should get an astronomical bonus. Or, at the least, be immortalized
by basing a piece on his half-handsome visage.
Sincerely,
Menachem
Nerenberg
Passaic,
NJ USA
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BROWN
PAPER Exhibit Book
Translated
from the Hebrew
07.12.04
Much
light comes from this exhibit, a gentleness & strength. A great pleasure.
Dalia
Morgenstern
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Saadya—they
are outstanding!
Moving
in their beauty and expressiveness and vitality.
With
an embrace of "well done"
Ruth
Nevo [Israel's top landscape
painter]
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Saadya
This
is good art & one that does the viewer good.
Also
of course more than that: About where it comes from; --from the depths; from
chaos brought to a compassionate order.
Ariela
Shavit [painter and photographer]
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07.12.04
There
are times, it's amazing
What
people can create
Capture
the moment
Capture
a movement
And
give the inert object a soul.
You
Saadya---Have done it!
Eyal
Nardi [Founder, Israel Paperfolders
Society (Haifa)]
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To
Saadya from Itai Sternberg.
The
exhibit was very successful and what interested me was that
what
you see from one point of view isn't like what you see from another.
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Dear
Saadia
Your
"origami" is splendid
This
is creative art, while some origami is plagiarism.
Keep
on with the good work
Happy
Folding
Herman
Mariano [Israel's foremost animal
paperfolder]
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Very
fine show, original, wonderful. Thanks
Yehuda
Atlas, and Yuval and Ronit.
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For
Saadya
Magical.
Exceptional and special exhibit. Was worth coming!
Miri
Golan
Director,
Israeli Origami Center
December
2004
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08.12.04
For
Saadya
Charming
and interesting
Exceptional
Very
beautiful
Yehudit
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8.12.04
Amazing
and magnificent, I lack the words to express my surprise.
It
seems there's no limit to creativity and imagination in people like yourself.
Thanks,
Naomi Korenberg
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8.12.04
For
Saadya!!!
I
thought the works were from clay.
Hats
off for the patience and creativity, well done.
Dorit
Ashkenazi
Municipal
Supervisor
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For
Saadya
Wonderful,
stunning. To look is to be amazed
A
true talent. Gives me strength
Abubut
8.12.04
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For
Saadya!!!
Great
job. Very good, keep going this way and of course you can move forward too.
Israel, 8.12.04
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The
exhibit—
Surprising
& interesting & fascinating!
Dr.
Zvi Karniel, 9.12.04
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9.12.04
A
handsome, original exhibit, with a highly creative talent.