The Rogatchi Foundation
Media-release
The new art musical video presents the Inna Rogatchi’s TRIBES. The SONS OF ISRAEL project. The projects is a part of the Outreach to Humanity series of projects carried on by The Rogatchi Foundation. The video is dedicated to the entire family of Rabbi Yonah and Mary Fuld, and in memory of the Rogatchi’s friend Ari Fuld who was and still be remembered as real Lion of Judah, and who did love Israel with all his brave heart.
The art work of the series are the Inna Rogatchi’s fine art photography collages which portrays the Tribes in an allusive way, and the Inna Rogatchi’s fine art photography works portraying the Land of Israel. Some art works of Michael’s from his famed Forefathers series are used in the video, and some fragments of his works had been incorporated by Inna into her collages, as well.
Inna Rogatchi did work on her Tribes project for three years, making all the shooting in Israel, with continuing her research through Biblical sources and working on the concept of the series. In her project, The Tribes and their Forefather Jacob are conveyed in the symbolic way in a genre of an metaphorical art corresponding to the vision of the each Tribe by their father Jacob. In some of the works, as for the works portraiyng Judah and Issachar, Inna had incorporated into her art collages some fragments from the art works of her husband, world renowned artist Michael Rogatchi from his famed Forefathers series.
The allusive ‘portraits’ of the Tribes are supplemented by the Inna Rogatchi’s fine art photography works of the landscapes of the Land of Israel which are setting the symbolic portraits of the Tribes into the atmosphere and spirit of the live landscape of the Eretz Israel. Some works by Michael Rogatchi also used in the art video.
The music of the video and its history is very special, indeed. Very talented British Jewish composer Stephen Levey in early 2000s wrote a most beautiful original score for Bilvavi, a special poem written by a notable Kabbalist Rabbi Elazar Azikri ( 1533- 1600) in memory of Joni Jesner who lost his life in a terror attack on a bus in Tel-Aviv in 2002. The first time the alive perfomance of Bilvavi was conducted in 2004 at the Tel-Aviv hospital where Joni died, during the special concert of the internationally famed Shabbaton Choir, the pearl of the London Western Marble Arch Synagogue led by the Synagogue leader incredibly talented Rabbi Lionel Rosenfeld, a close friend of the Rogatchis.
Inna and Michael Rogatchi and The Rogatchi Foundation are cordially thankful to their dear friends for this meaningful co-operation in memory of Ari Fuld.
There would be forthcoming art brochure of this project, with more descriptions regarding the Inna Rogatchi’s vision and results of her studies regarding The Tribes. The international exhibitions of the series is planned from 2019 onward.
For more information: The Rogatchi Foundation, office@rogatchifoundation.org, inna.rogatchi@gmail.com