Next week, a new exhibition by illustrator Kfir Weizman will open in the lobby of the Raanana City Hall, dedicated to the ecological crisis.  The exhibition will include 16 amazing illustrations that deal with different aspects related to the state of the planet Earth, including man’s behavior, the use and abuse of natural resources, global warming, etc.

Raanana, a green city, has chosen to give a platform for this exhibition at the city hall building, as part of its extensive activity on the subject of promoting sustainability in the community and assimilating values of environmental protection.

The official opening will be held on Tuesday, 16.2.10 at 10:30 and attended by Mayor Nahum Hofree and Deputy Mayor Ronit Weintraub, director of the Culture, Youth and Leisure Division, city council members and Meged Elementary School students.  Meged is part of the Education Ministry’s program “Artists in the Environment and the Environment in Art”.

Kfir Weizman’s illustrations, presented in the exhibition, some of which were created using a computer 3D software, arouse our awareness to the importance of environmental protection in our era.  Similar to a Doctor Seuss book, Kfir Weizman’s illustrations shed light on the environmental price of man’s use of natural resources, by describing air pollution, garbage pile-up, the massive cutting down of trees in rain forests, equal distribution of water resources, and the intelligent use of water, as well as visual expressions of global warming and a message to the global economic system interested in profit in the here and now.

In order to bring this subject to the younger generation’s awareness, two other copies of this exhibition have been prepared that will be brought to the city’s schools and enable the school faculty to deal with the assimilation of the subjects of sustainability using its representation in art.  Meged School is the first school to use the exhibition.

Mayor Nahum Hofree:  “I believe that if we expand our circle of partners in our green and sustainable activity, and if we all recycle our home waste, conserve water and reduce our use of polluting materials, we will be able to enjoy nature and protect it, and we will succeed in our educational mission – To leave behind us a better world.”

In the photos:  Artist Kfir Weizman’s illustrations.  Courtesy of the Raanana Municipality.
Curator:  Orna Fichman.