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Solomon Souza

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Solomon Souza ( en hebreo : שלמה סוזה ; nacido en 1993) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] es un artista callejero británico-israelí . Es conocido principalmente por pintar con aerosol retratos de figuras contemporáneas e históricas en las persianas metálicas del mercado Mahane Yehuda ("El Shuk ") en Jerusalén , convirtiéndolas en una atracción nocturna. [ 1 ]

Vida temprana y personal

Solomon Souza nació en Londres y creció en el barrio de Hackney . [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Su madre, la pintora británico-israelí Karen (Keren) Souza-Kohn, [ 4 ] es una de las tres hijas del artista indio FN Souza , [ 5 ] y la actriz judía checa Liselotte Kristian (de soltera Kohn). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] (La pintura superventas de su abuelo FN Souza de 1955, Nacimiento, representa a su abuela Liselotte posando embarazada de su madre Keren. [ 7 ] [ 9 ] )

Su hermana menor, Miriam, es cineasta. [ 3 ] [ 10 ] Está casado con Ayelet Finkelstein desde febrero de 2021. [ 3 ] [ 10 ]

Solomon Souza, en gran parte autodidacta, ha trabajado en murales desde que tenía 14 años. [ 3 ] [ 11 ]

Mercado de Mahane Yehuda

Hasta julio de 2018, Souza había pintado más de 250 de las 360 persianas del mercado. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Cada pintura tarda entre dos y cuatro horas en completarse. [ 11 ] Souza suele completar tres murales por noche. [ 11 ]

Los temas incluyen figuras históricas y contemporáneas, incluidos Yossi Banai , Roseanne Barr , Menachem Begin , David Ben-Gurion (pintado al revés), [ 12 ] Albert Einstein , Mahatma Gandhi , Ze'ev Jabotinsky , Meyer Lansky , Emma Lazarus , Bob Marley , Matisyahu , Golda Meir , Moses Montefiore , Dona Gracia Nasi , Daniel Pearl , Jonathan Pollard. , Naomi Shemer , Steven Spielberg , Hannah Szenes , Henrietta Szold y Bracha Zefira . [ 1 ] [ 13 ] [ 12 ] [ 14 ] Hay casi una docena de retratos rabínicos, incluidos Mordejai Eliyahu , Abraham Joshua Heschel , Yitzhak Kaduri , Maimónides , Shneur Zalman de Liadi y Ovadia Yosef . [ 1 ] [ 11 ] [ 15 ] También están representadas personalidades árabes, incluyendo a Lucy Aharish , el jeque Fari al-Jabari de Hebrón , Si Ali Sakkat y la reina de Saba . [ 1 ] [ 16 ] Las pinturas bíblicas incluyen a Moisés , Salomón y paneles que representan los siete días de la creación . [ 13 ] [ 12 ] [ 11 ] Algunas de las pinturas más antiguas son de los propios dueños de los puestos, o de sus abuelos, por petición personal. [ 12 ] [ 11 ]

Los murales se han convertido en una atracción nocturna y los sábados , cuando los puestos están cerrados y se ven las persianas y las puertas metálicas. [ 1 ] [ 11 ]

Otros murales

Souza was invited in 2019 by Vivek Menezes, the special projects curator for the Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa, India to do a similar art project there.[17] Souza created murals of various prominent Goans, past and present.[18]

In January 2020, Chelsea FC unveiled a mural by Souza on an outside wall of the West Stand at Stamford Bridge stadium. The mural is part of Chelsea's 'Say No to Antisemitism' campaign funded by club owner Roman Abramovich. Included on the mural are depictions of footballers Julius Hirsch and Árpád Weisz, who were killed at Auschwitz concentration camp, and Ron Jones, a British prisoner of war known as the 'Goalkeeper of Auschwitz'.[19]

Other projects

In July 2021, Zionist activist Rudy Rochman and two other Israelis presented a Torah scroll, with its cover designed by Solomon Souza, to an Igbo Jewish community in Nigeria just before the three Israelis were arrested by the Nigerian police.[20]

References

  1. 12345678Ghert-Zand, Renee; Tress, Luke (29 February 2016). "Young artist turns Jerusalem's market into gallery of famous faces". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  2. 12Kalra, Vandana (16 July 2016). "A Market for Faces". The Indian Express. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  3. 1234Corman, Ruth (8 April 2021). "Solomon Souza follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, F.N. Souza". The Jerusalem Post.
  4. Jackson, Milenka (June 1989). "Part 9". Liselotte Souza interviewed by Milenka Jackson. Living Memory of the Jewish Community (Audio recording summary). London: British Library. Her other daughter Karen is lesbian. She has had many stormy and violent relationships. She finally has been settled for six years in stable relationship. She also took art training and has been successful.
  5. Nair, Uma (11 March 2014). "Souza - The Heartless Husband". The Times of India.
  6. Jackson, Milenka (June 1989). "Part 7". Liselotte Souza interviewed by Milenka Jackson. Living Memory of the Jewish Community (Audio recording summary). London: British Library. Francis continued with the violence and threats, he tried to deprive her first of home, then of the three girls. He turned off her water supply. She tried to adopt her three girls (she never married Francis) to keep them safe with her. Camden Council prevented her; Anya was in care of the Mental Health Act because of Down's Syndrome. Francis refused his permission for her to adopt.
  7. 12Singh, Khushwant (6 May 2006). "A Maverick Painter". The Telegraph (India).
  8. "A morning with F N Souza's daughters". State of the Art. 2 September 2013.
  9. "With $4m art record, Souza sizzles". The Times of India. 18 September 2015.
  10. 12Cohen, Susan (3 March 2021). "Solomon Souza and Ayelet Finklestein Marry!". The Tzfat Herald.
  11. 1234567Levi, Sarah (2 December 2015). "The Artist's Temple". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  12. 1234Booth, William (24 May 2016). "Two guys are turning an old Jerusalem market into a portrait gallery of famous Jews". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  13. 12Sultan, Abir (18 March 2016). "Graffiti art at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  14. Arom, Etan (13 April 2016). "Shuk art: Two 20-somethings are changing the face of a Jerusalem landmark". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  15. Leichman, Abigail Klein (4 May 2015). "Turning the Jerusalem shuk into an art gallery". Israel 21C. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  16. Rabinovitch, Ari (7 March 2016). "Graffiti Artist Turns Gritty Jerusalem Market into Colorful Canvas". Reuters. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  17. Brown, Hannah (3 December 2019). "Shuk street artist Solomon Souza takes his talent to Goa". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  18. Sen Gupta, Aniruddha (13 December 2019). "Solomon Souza is putting his tag on Goa with vibrant murals of local heroes". Business Standard.
  19. Liphshiz, Cnaan (20 January 2020). "Chelsea unveils mural with Jewish soccer players murdered at Auschwitz". The Jerusalem Post.
  20. Berman, Lazar (13 July 2021). "Israeli filmmakers arrested in Nigeria over alleged contact with separatists". The Times of Israel.
  • "Closed storefronts become colourful works of art" The Globe and Mail (slideshow)
  • "Graffiti art at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market" The Guardian (slideshow)