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Shai KremerUrban Warfare Training Center, Panorama, Tze’elim2007
2007
About the Item
This Image is at the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY.
The Urban Warfare Training Center is a mock city located in Israel's Tze'elim military base in the Negev desert. Built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and funded largely through U.S. military aid, the 7.4-square-mile generic city consists of modules that can be reconfigured by mission planners to represent specific towns. Known as Baladia City-the Arabic word balad means village-it is used by the Israel Defense Forces as well as by the U.S. Army to prepare soldiers for urban warfare. The simulated city includes shops, a grand mosque, a hospital, a Kasbah quarter, and a cemetery that doubles as a soccer field, depending on the scenario. The facility is equipped with an audio system that simulates helicopters, mortar rounds, and prayer calls. During training exercises, Arabic music is played in the background.
Kremer's panoramic photograph-part of larger body of work focusing on the impact of Israel's ongoing military engagement on the natural landscape-captures and intensifies the haunting artifice of this simulated desert town.
Images from the series Infected Landscape are at several MUSEUMS COLLECTIONS:
Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
SF MoMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, CA
Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, TX
Museum of Contemporary Photography. Chicago, IL
Israel Museum. Jerusalem, Israel
Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Tel Aviv, Israel
Shpilman Institute for Photography
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Herzliya, Israel
Museum on the Seam. Jerusalem, Israel
Chapman Museum. New York, NY
Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Brunswick, ME
Rose Museum at Brandeis University. Waltham, MA
Harvard University. Cambridge, MA
Musée de la roche-sur-Yon, France
Nevada Museum of Art, NV
Exhibition History:
2019
Infected Landscape - Mixer RowHouse Washington DC
2015
Infected Landscape -Unfamiliar Asia - Beijing Photo Biennial, Beijing China
2012
Infected Landscape - Le Bleu du Ciel Gallery. Lyon, France
2011
Infected Landscape & Fallen Empires - Galerie Filles du Calvaire. Paris, France
Infected Landscape - FMoPa. Tampa, USA
2010
Infected Landscape - FMoPa. Tampa, USA
2009
Infected Landscape - Houston Center for Photography. Houston, USA
Infected Landscape - Julie M Gallery. Toronto, Canada
Infected Landscape Israel - M. K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum,. Kaunas, Lithuania
2008
Infected Landscape Israel - Stiftelsen 3,14 Hordaland International Art Gallery. Bergen, Norway
Infected Landscape - “ART Tel Aviv” , Julie M Gallery. Tel Aviv, Israel
Broken Promised Land - Julie Saul Gallery. New York, USA
Broken Promised Land - Robert Koch Gallery. San Francisco, USA
Infected Landscape Israel - Julie M Gallery. Tel Aviv, Israel
2005
Infected Landscape - SVA Eastside Gallery. New York, USA
Infected Landscape - Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR USA
- Creator:Shai Kremer (1974, Israeli, American)
- Creation Year:2007
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 83 in (210.82 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:31x 116Price: $25,000
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2587213316012
Shai Kremer
Shai Kremer is an Israeli conceptual photographer whose work has generated worldwide critical acclaim. Earlier projects include his multi-year series of large scale works, Concrete Abstract, that offer a look at the reconstruction effort at the site of the World Trade Center through the use of multiple image overlays that span the construction from 2011 to 2013. Kremer’s 2010 series, Notes From the Edges, concentrates on views of New York from its perimeter, emphasizing the dichotomy of destruction and reconstruction. Kremer focused his lens on the lesser-known landscapes that exist in the periphery, where the urban structure begins to decay and rejoin with nature. His early series, Infected Landscape and Fallen Empires, examined contested territories throughout Israel where the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has left an indelible imprint on both the land and the psyche of its inhabitants.
In his austerely beautiful, medium- to large-format color photographs, Shai Kremer captures the marks of conflict and history on the fraught and mutable landscapes of Israel and New York City. He sees these landscapes as palimpsests on which can be read the rise and fall of empires, continuing power struggles, and changing socio-economic conditions that allow certain structures to rise and others to disappear. Working in series, he positions himself at the margins—the Israeli desert, the edges of New York—to broaden his perspective, intellectually and visually. Kremer has photographed military training grounds in the Negev desert, archaeological ruins, and the various borders dividing the Israelis from the Palestinians—sites so subtle they appear mundane. In New York, he has been focusing on the changing World Trade Center site and on humble and crumbling interstitial structures. Kremer’s artworks can be found at the following museum collections:
Metropolitan Museum of Art- New York, SF MoMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
Museum of Fine Arts Houston,
Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Pilara Foundation Pier 24, San Francisco, Israel Museum Jerusalem Israel
, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art,
Museum on the Seam Jerusalem,
FMoPa. Tampa, USA,
Chapman Museum. New York, Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Brunswick, Rose Museum at Brandeis University. Waltham, MA
Musée de la roche-sur-Yon, France,
Nevada Museum of Art, Harvard University. Cambridge, 9/11 Memorial Museum New York NY
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