The Rogatchi Foundation donate Forefathers series of art works to the Helsinki Jewish Community and Sara home for elderly<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n September 4, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n Approaching the Jewish High Holidays, the special time for charity, The Rogatchi Foundation is pleased to announce the donation of ten museum-quality art replicas of the famous Michael Rogatchi\u2019s Forefather series to the Helsinki Jewish Community and Sara home for elderly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The art works of the donation are grouped into two parts: five works portraying the Jewish Patriarchs and heroes ( Abraham and Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron and Samson) are meant to adore the premises of the Club of the Helsinki Jewish Community, while the works portraying the Matriarchs and heroines ( Sarah, Rebecca, Leah, Rachel and Miriam) would be going to the Sara home for elderly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018The Michael Rogatchi\u2019s original Forefather series composed of The Patriarchs and The Matriarchs works is unique artistic undertake in history of art,<\/em>\u2019 according to the project\u2019s curator professor\u00a0Julia Weiner\u00a0<\/strong>( London). In the words of the laureate of the Jewish Educational Award, eminent\u00a0Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki<\/strong>,\u201dMichael Rogatchi shares with us not only his immense talent, but also the very essence of his warm, ebullient Jewish soul. In his stunning Patriarchs and Matriarchs, he makes us to look as if into very Jewish soul itself<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Forefathers had been created by the artist between 1995 and 2010 and has been exhibited internationally widely, including Israel, Finland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and many other countries. The series is featured in the Melody of Light: Life and Art of Inna and Michael Rogatchi <\/em>film ( USA, 2013) produced and broadcast with a big success by the JLTV, and later on by the Danish TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The series is a subject of\u00a0The Silver Thread, a Life-Rope<\/em>\u00a0art documentary which is in the process of making. It also is featured in The Rogatchi Foundation special art & educational project\u00a0The Images of the Torah\u00a0<\/em>which is planned to be completed in 2018-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Rogatchi\u00a0<\/strong>says with regard to the donation: \u201cThe art work only if it speaks to and with people, if it enlightens their life, provokes their thought. It works if it makes the premises of life, in a broader term, charged with the additional, art-created dimension. From that point of view, I am very glad to be able to contribute into the daily life of our friends from the Helsinki Jewish community by the presence in their premises of my art works which had been made by reflecting on the core of the Jewish values\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Inna Rogatchi\u00a0<\/strong>adds:\u00a0\u201cWe are very glad to be able to contribute to both young and elderly, to bring some of our art to the places of gathering of children and youth, and to the home of elderly in Helsinki. Donating to the both places at the same time aims to achieve certain harmony which is essential principle of life. The meaning of this harmony is renewed every year at the time preceding the Jewish High Holidays. We are very glad to provide these beautiful works of art to the places where they will \u2018do a good work\u2019 and will do it for years to come\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The artist Michael Rogatchi and his wife writer and film-maker Inna Rogatchi, co-founders of The Rogatchi Foundation will be handing their art donation to the chairman of the Helsinki Jewish Community Yaron Nadbornik<\/strong> and his colleagues in Helsinki on September 13th, 2017, a week before the Jewish High Holidays of the New Jewish Year 5778..<\/p>\n\n\n\n They are making this donation in the name and in memory of their both families,\u00a0Reiss-Litowsky-Rogatchi\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Chigrinsky-Elovich-Bujanover<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Rogatchi Foundation is glad to receive warm gratitude from our friends and colleagues from the Helsinki Jewish Community over the donation. We hope that the art works will be bringing special atmosphere and joy to the both Jewish institutions in the Finland\u2019s capital for which they were selected with care and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MICHAEL ROGATCHI’S FOREFATHERS COLLECTION WORKS TO ADORE THE WALLS OF THE JEWISH INSTITUTIONS IN THE FINNISH CAPITAL Media-release The Rogatchi Foundation donate Forefathers series of art works to the Helsinki Jewish Community and Sara home for elderly September 4, 2017 Approaching the Jewish High Holidays, the special time for charity, The Rogatchi Foundation is pleased…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tw-meta-no-icon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rogatchifoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rogatchifoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rogatchifoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogatchifoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogatchifoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogatchifoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogatchifoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogatchifoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rogatchifoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogatchifoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogatchifoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.rogatchi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MR-studio.jpg\")
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