The BFC’s work has naturally built up an often complex, symbiotic dialogue with Haifa. The city provides them with a canvas and has helped launch their careers; they have created their own community here, running music nights, pop-up stores, and opening up a graffiti shop and gallery—FingaPrints, now named Bardo. “We love Haifa: the land, the food,” Unga said. “So, of course the fact that we grew up here and still live and work from here is something that comes out in our work in one way or another. Most of our works aren’t political, probably because Israel is such a politically charged country, that art is kind of our escape to normality.”

Broken Fingaz’s Graffiti Art [Tablet Magazine]

(images from exhibition)

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A refreshing survey of Israeli art graces the pages of Flavorwire today. Artis, the curatorial voice behind the digital-exhibition featuring a variety of mediums, has been providing a forum for artists since 2004 and curates events around the world. Foremost, its cohesive vision in providing exposure to a famously underrepresented Israeli art world outside of the confines of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv is impressively user-friendly, and I expect we will hear more from them on our side of the pond in 2011.

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