שמעון פינטו

Born in 1967;

Graduated cum laude from the Department of Visual Arts & Art

History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Has participated in many solo & group exhibitions, his works

are displayed in the permanent collections in the Tel Aviv

Museum of Art & The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Ben

Gurion University & other private collections.

Helmet Explanation:

The Motzei Shabbat following Simchat Torah & Shmini Atzeret

caught me with such a sense of helplessness in the face of

the horrors I saw through the WhatsApp groups of my kibbutz

friends. Those who were murdered were my personal friends

and from the same kibbutz I had been adopted as a child.

I witnessed the utter chaos in each of the settlements that

surround Aza – Sderot, Netivot & other kibbutzim where – and

in each of them – I had friends who were like family to me.

The citizens & soldiers who ran to help at the Nova Festival

reminded me of my uncle – my Mother’s brother – running to

his army truck in 1973, when he ran to the Sinai and was killed.

The helplessness I felt connected the Yom Kippur War in

1973 to October 2023 and within me, the “expectation” of

redemption and a cure for the world was formed.

הערכת מחיר: $4,000 - $6,000

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