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JEWISH MUSEUM VIENNA
The Jewish Museum Vienna offers in its main building, an old town palace near the Saint Stephen's Cathedral, exhibitions on the Austrian-Jewish history, religion and tradition. In the permanent exhibition in Dorotheer alley "Our City! Jewish Vienna to this day ", you can experience the history of Jewish Vienna from its beginnings to the presence. On the ground floor "Our City" begins with the year 1945 and leads up to the Viennese Jewish present. It gives account about the almost completely exterminated Jewish community which, over the decades, developed into a small but complex and lively community against the resistance of Austrian post-war politics. The here integrated media table "ZEIT.ORT.WORT" offers visitors a map with addresses of Jewish institutions and various facilities of today's Jewish Viennese life, together with background information. After looking into the present, the exhibition on the second floor leads into the Jewish Vienna from the Middle Ages to the Shoah. The Israeli artist Maya Zack has specially for the new permanent exhibition the photographic room installation "The Shabbat Room" created, originating from Isidor Kaufmann's installation "Gute Stube (best room)", which was made in 1899 for the first Jewish Museum in Vienna, arose. A multi-media guide provides the visitors with additional perspectives on the main storyline presented in the exhibition. The museum presents in the viewable storage area the collections and places them in a historical context - with the places from which the objects stem, the synagogues or the collectors such as Max Berger or Martin Schlaff. The app "Zwischen den Häusern (between the houses)" links the two locations of the museum and offers the visitors "Jewish paths" for the historical core of Vienna.
In addition to the extensive permanent exhibition facilities, the Jewish Museum also hosts numerous temporary exhibitions, which can be found at www.jmw.at.
Museum Jewish Square
In the Middle Ages, Vienna was home to a flourishing Jewish community, one of the largest and most important in Europe. Here famous rabbis taught and made the city a center of Jewish knowledge. All this ended abruptly in 1420/21 by the expulsion and murder of the Viennese Jews. The remains of the then destroyed Synagogue excavated under the Jewish Square in 1995 bear witness to the medieval life of the community and its destruction.
In 2000, the Museum Jewish Square was opened as the second location of the Jewish Museum in Vienna, and the memorial of Rachel Whiteread on Jewish Square for the victims of the Shoah unveiled. Today, new sources, scientific findings and architectural finds throw a more detailed light on life in the medieval Viennese Jewish city. The new permanent exhibition puts by means of a virtual tour of Vienna into the 14th century: from the development of the Jewish communities via a reconstruction of Jewish Vienna to the everyday life of the Jews in the Middle Ages.
Inspired by the work of Joåo Oliveira, I wanted to create an image that suggested but disguised, an object's identity within this thin set of triangular ribbons. The Photograph I took shows lots of sweeping, diagonal and curved forms which really contrasts and compliments the triangular shape that houses it.
To compliment the very complex pattern of the main feature, further, I decided that a relatively plain background would work well. To enliven the image, I added some random particles using custom brushes and blur filters to, also, add a depth and movement to the composition.
I applied a radial gradient in the background to subtly bring the focus to the centre, as if in a very faint spotlight. I wanted to create the illusion of a third dimension within the shape itself, so, using the dodge and burn tools, I carefully suggested that areas overlapped at some points, rather than just joining the image together. This creates more confusion to the photograph in the background by making the original lighting unbalanced.
What I really loved about this design was the two extremes of complexity and simplicity and the contrast between them.
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Since I discoverd the band Blood Red Shoes, people were asking when I would buy some BRS. Well, finally I did.