FRAMED #62 Vincent Peirani & Ziv Ravitz / Exhibition "Sirens" Ofir Dor

MUSIC – Vincent Peirani & Ziv Ravitz

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Vincent, a virtuoso accordionist who has won international acclaim in the jazz world, expresses himself with remarkable ease in a wide variety of musical genres, shifting and overstepping their boundaries with consummate skill. Whatever the style, Vincent Peirani turns everything he touches into gold: jazz of course (his own projects, and collaborations with Daniel Humair, Michel Portal, and others), but also French chanson (with Sanseverino, Les Yeux Noirs), classical music (his long-standing duo with the cellist François Salque), film music (composer for Mathieu Amalric’s Barbara in 2017), etc. His open-mindedness and endless curiosity have led him, through countless collaborations, to shape his music with multiple influences. With their naturalness, their self-evidence, his compositions go straight to the depths of our emotions. With insatiable relish and unfailing commitment, he explores different musical languages and uses his own special magic to give new life to familiar themes that we thought were rooted forever in their own tradition. Vincent Peirani’s music, like his personality, embraces whole worlds and takes the listener on new adventures every time.

Ziv was born in Beer-Sheva, Israel, to a family of musicians; he was drawn to music at an early age, playing the guitar, piano, and drums. When he was 9 years old, he started focusing on drums and by the age of 13, began his professional career, playing the drums at various clubs in Beer-Sheva and Tel Aviv, and acquiring experience in a variety of musical styles, such as Jazz, rock, and avant-garde. Ziv moved to the US in the summer of 2000 to expand his musical experience and to grow as a Jazz composer. Since then, he has been performing and recording with numerous ensembles, both as a freelancer and as an artist using his own compositions, which reflect his individual and unique sound. In December 2004, Ziv graduated from Berklee College of Music with a Jazz Composition Degree.

Ziv has been a member of the Lee Konitz Quartet, Shai Maestro Trio, Omer Klein Trio, Avishai Cohen Quartet, Omer Avital Quintet, and Yaron Herman Projects.

Ziv also had the opportunity to perform with musicians such as Hal Crook, Joel Frahm, Joe Lovano, Tomasz Stanko, Eli Dejibri, Ralph Alessi, George Garzone, Ben Monder, Aaron Goldberg, Aaron Parks, Donny McCaslin, Jason Linder, Esperanza Spaulding, Greg Osby, Mark Turner, and many more. Today, Ziv resides in New York City and is one of its most sought-after drummers.

ART EXHIBITION – „Sirens“ Ofir Dor

Ofir Dor is a painter, a native of Israel, residing in Berlin since 2007. He will be showing large-scale paintings in a lush expressivity, depicting men and women in situations derived from a subliminal zone of dream, the occult, and sexual fantasy. Initially working in a more detailed technique, with scenes that bring to mind a dark underworld of esoteric cliques and subcultures, his painterly style has evolved into a freeform expressivity. 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, erotic photography, and the widespread scopic practices of the digital age.

As ideas refine across slight variations – experimenting with color, composition, setting and gesture – he tries to attain a balance between a raw, energetic state and sense of balance and lucidity, doing so not so much be by a deliberate structure but rather by a fusion of image and paint, creating a one-time, particular event where content and form are bound together to create meaning.