Sunday, March 22, 2009
Yellow Star, Sabina Saad Family
Size: 50X35 Acrylic and pencil on canvas.
4 Yellow Badges representing
the hiding of four members of Alexander Family in an attic during the Nazi regime in Italy. Behind the attic Sabina's story about her Alexander family in Italian.
In 1934, the Alexander family that included my grandfather, Paul Leopold, my grandmother Margareta, my uncle Hans, My mother Anni, fled from Leipzig, Germany. They fled to Milan in Italy and remained there until 1939 when my grandfather was arrested. After a month in the jail St. Vittore he was transferred to the concentration camp in Ferramonti in Calabria in south Italy. After three years he was transferred to Fanzolo in the area of Treviso. The other family members joined him in 1943, thinking that the war ended since the Italians surrendered to the Allies. However, the Germans invaded Italy and the family was compelled to find a hideaway. Firstly, they hid in the attic of Tessaro family, and later in the attic of their sister in law Olivia. After the Germans located their headquarters nearby, the small family (with the help of Reverend Don Giuseppe Casarin) found refuge in the Temple of the Madonna Del Caravaggio, where they stayed until the end of the war, and thus they were saved. I, Sabina Saad, the daughter of Anni Alexander, have four children: Kuki, Itai, Noa and Eliel and six grandsons. I live in Israel. My cousin Roberto, the son of Hans, lives in Switzerland and has two children: Jonah and Elianah.Paul Leopold Alexander1893-1967.Margareta Alexander1896-1952
Sunday, November 23, 2008
David & Goliath Ltd
Italian candies manufactured by Golis (=Goliath) Company with the Star of David symbol decorating the wrapping. These two names are meeting again like in a second life (Karma).
All rights reserved to Sabina Saad 2008.
Monday, November 03, 2008
The Anti-Semitism Demon
Size: 40X14X14 cm
Wood box, spring, wood Yellow Badge and acrylic paintings.
Anti-Semitism is hiding usually until it bursts unpredictably. Like demons that were hiding in a box. The Yellow Badge is bigger than the box so that once it’s out there’s no way to put it back. On the sides of the box are painted the flags of Italy, France, Germany, Poland and Holland. There wasn’t enough space for the flags of the other Anti-Semitic countries…
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Big Smoke
Artist Sabina Saad spent many years in Italy before she came to Israel. In Italian the comics “balloons” are called FUMETTO, which means small smoke, but Jews in the holocaust went to Heaven in a Big Smoke. There are no words in these “balloons” since Jewish victims’ voices were not heard at that time, and since many Jewish survivors stopped believing in God.
Dialog with a Yellow Badge Series
Ink and color pencil on paper
14.3X14.3 cm.
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Six Directions
This is a picture of one of the works that will be exhibited in Maryland University, USA, in a few days (21-23 September 2008) on a continuation exhibition to the Maged David Album exhibition that I initiated a few months ago in the Journalists' House in Tel Aviv with Curator Amili Gelbman.
Participants:
Amili Gelbman
Beigel Aviva
Hedva Zloter
Meir Salomon
Ehud Shcori
Sabina Saad
Nava Sidon
Amos Plaut (Germany)
Dr. Martin Kieselstein
Jacob Porat
Neomi Rotem
Dvorit Ben-Shaul
Inbal Kurts
Prof. Zemira Mevarch
DickBen-Dor
Orit Man-Or
Daniel Abecasise
Israela Engel
Lucy Elkivity
AnatKohen Ahdut
Michal Ashkenasi
Miri Lavee
Anat kedem
Ruth Armoni
Tamar Frisch Helviz
RachelBen-Hur
Tami Alkon Lorberboim
Tami Suez
Dr.Tamar Recer
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Playing Around
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The Black that Hides Under the Light
Yellow badge with cuts in the canvas that reveal underneath a black background. The original meaning of the yellow color (light, life) was distorted by the Nazis and started actually to mean what the black color conveys: darkness and death.
Inspired by Italian painter Lucio Fontana.
Size: 50X50
Acrylic on canvas and cuts in the canvas
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Open Wound
Star of David, painted in the Israeli national colors, White and blue, with cuts in the canvas that reveals underneath a yellow badge, like an Open Wound that would never heal.
Size: 50X50
Acrylic on canvas and cuts in the canvas
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
For the memory of the Holocaust victims from Libya
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
Size: 20X20 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Cutting part of the canvas in the shape of the yellow badge, so that it alludes to the Jewish victims during the Holocaust.
The work is one of a series.
Sabina Saad says that Jews always regarded themselves as part of the regime under which they lived, and were meaningful contributors to those places – so that their disappearing in WWII left a hole (symbolically) in the flag of each country.
In Libya 5000 Jews were locked in concentration camps and 500 of them died from dysentery. 160 Jews were transferred to Bergen-Belsen.
Monday, July 28, 2008
The Color of the Jews
Star of David on a colorful canvas.
Artist: Sabina Saad (Yellow Badge series)
Size: 20 X 20 cm.
Concept: Communist Jews (red), environmentalist Jews (green) are considered by their governments to be first and foremost Jews, no matter what their other affiliations are.
Title: Color Doesn't Matter – you’ll always be a Jew
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
6,000,000 Casualties
Background: stripes of concentration camp uniforms.
Acrylic on canvas and Yellow Badges cut from cloth.
Size: 70/80 cm.
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Yellow Badge Dead-End Maze
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
30X30 cm
Acrylic on canvas
This is one of a series of paintings about the Yellow Badge
Monday, June 30, 2008
Hidden Yellow Badge, Italy
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
Lined illustrations mark existing unseen objects in architecture - that's how artist Sabina Saad interprets current Anti Semitism in Italy (on the Italian colors of the flag). Anti Israeli demonstrations are frequent in Italy, and they are with anti-Semitic slogans.
Hidden Yellow Badge, France
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
Lined illustrations mark existing unseen objects in architecture - that's how artist Sabina Saad interprets current anti-Semitism in France (on the French colors of the flag). More than 300 Anti Semite incidents were reported in France in 2006.
Hidden Yellow Badge, Germany
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
In architecture lined illustrations mark existing unseen objects - that's how artist Sabina Saad interprets current Anti Semitism in Germany (on the German colors of the flag). More than 8000 Neo-Nazi racial incidents were reported in Germany in 2006.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Yellow Star Blue & White
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
Acrylic on canvas 25/25 cm
Israelis and Jews are still marked as targets by their enemies as if they still have a Yellow Badge. That's why Israelis and Jews have to hide those signs of belonging (language, Yarmulke etc) while they are among non-Jews.
Yellow Star Target
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
Target paper 14/14 cm
Israelis and Jews are still marked as targets by their enemies as if they still have a Yellow Badge.
Transparent Yellow Star
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Sabina Saad, 1x6000000 Black Yellow Badge
When we Magnify the Holocaust Yellow Badge 6000000 times the shape of the Star of David dissolves and all we see is either yellow or black (in this case yellow). This is one of many works in a series about the Yellow Badge symbol on which
Sabina Saad is working currently.
Acrylic on canvas, 50X70 cm