FRAMED #36 David Freidman & Joshua Ginsburg / Exhibition Ofir Dor

MUSIC – David Friedman & Joshua Ginsburg 

“I had a wonderful time performing in your spectacular space! The audience was great, and the FRAMED crew was helpful, enthusiastic, and totally inspiring! Thanks again!” – David Friedmann

A unique opportunity to hear legendary vibraphonist David Friedman in a duo with internationally renowned bassist Joshua Ginsburg.

David Friedman is considered to be one of the most influential vibraphonists in the history of the instrument. Internationally renowned as a vibraphonist, marimbist, composer, and jazz educator, he has his own musical message, born of fascinatingly diverse musical influences.

Having worked with such varied musical personalities as Leonard Bernstein, Luciano Berio, Bobby McFerrin, Wayne Shorter, and Yoko Ono, few jazz musicians can claim as broad a spectrum of performing and recording experience.

Joshua Ginsburg is a regular fixture on the world’s concert stages; his bass playing has been described as “a rock of counterpoint, funk and swing.” – Financial Times (London) 

In the past few years, Joshua has been performing internationally with bands led by Kurt Rosenwinkel, David Friedman, Greg Osby, Jeremy Pelt, E.J. Strickland, George Colligan, Melissa Aldana, Jure Pukl, Logan Richardson, Diego Piñera, Tino Derado, and Aruán Ortiz, among others. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Josh lived for 20 years in Brooklyn, New York, where he performed regularly with countless influential musicians. He currently resides in Berlin, Germany.

ART EXHIBITION – Ofir Dor

Ofir Dor is an Israeli painter residing in Berlin. Since 2004 has been showing large-scale paintings in a lush expressiveness, depicting men and women in situations derived from a subliminal zone of dream, the occult, and sexual fantasy.

On view are some themes I’ve developed in my work over the past years. This body of work represents, for me, the culmination of an ongoing process around erotic themes and group scenarios in painting. It deals with nudity, the axes of gaze, the interplay of characters, and the force fields of push-and-pull between them, often approached in connection with noted art-historical precedents, literature, erotic photography, and the widespread scopic practices of the digital age.