Jack Jano Jack Jano was born in Fez, Morocco. He immigrated to Israel at early age. Is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. In his works, Jano creates models of tombs and synagogues made of rusty and disintegrating iron, worn-out books, melted wax, yahrzeit candles, and other materials. All these are fused into a sculptural design that revives the various elements and gives them both a religious and artistic validity. His work draws upon the world of Jewish tradition, and in his objects, the border between an aesthetic object and a magical one is sometimes blurred. Janos' deployment of artifacts from the religious world is an act of hybridization, pointing to the difficulty of placing traditionalism within a definite sociological framework. This difficulty emerges from the refusal of Jews from Arab countries to be classified by the European categories of 'religious' and 'secular'. Against this background, his work succeeds in capturing complex hybridization between religion and secularity, and not just replacing one of them with the other. In this, actually, lies its true power. "My studio is like a synagogue. There I pray to God to help me find my truth, so I can become one with what I do", testifies the artist. The arched structures that are a combination of models of tombs of righteous Jewish persons and of Arab sheikhs, undermine the dichotomy between 'Arab' and 'Jewish' in order to make the relationship between them visible, a relationship that the Israeli society keeps strictly oppressed and excluded. Jano participated in solo and group exhibitions in Museums and galleries in Israel EU and Europe. Selected exhibitions of Jack Jano: 1977 Marocan Dinner, solo exhibition, Acme Gallery, London 1984 Eighty Years of Sculpture, group exhibition, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1990 Portraits, O.K Harris Gallery, New York 1992 Jack Jano- Works, solo exhibition, Uri & Rami Nechushtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'acov 1993 Anonymous…, group exhibition, Herzeliya Museum 1995 Journey, one- man exhibition, Ashdod Museum 1996 Ktav, group exhibition, Ackland Museum, North Carolina 1996 Jack Jano, solo exhibition, O.K Harris Gallery, New York 2000 Troubadour, solo exhibition, Ramat-Gan Museum 2002 Inside Sees Outside, Janco- Dada Museum, Ein-Hod 2004 Object, Holiness and Ritual, group exhibition, Nashville Museum, Tennesse 2005 Rachel Grave, Center of Israeli Art, Munich, Germany 2006 Text and Ritual, solo exhibition, Bar- David Museum, Kibbutz Bar Am 2008 The Invisible Self Portrait, group exhibition, Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv 2009 SoferStam- Hebrew Installation, one man exhibition, Enegl Gallery, Tel Aviv 2010 Trees, solo exhibition, artists' house, Tel Aviv 2011 Frische- Mische, solo exhibition, Engel gallery, Tel Aviv 2012 Pace, group exhibition, Horace Richter Gallery, Jaffa, Tel Aviv Untitled Painted wood Technique: mixed A blue puppet of a man carrying a rifle is hanging in the wall. It depicts a soldier that is a 'toy', a 'marionette' with no power over his acts, or a man, that even having a weapon is managed by other forces than his own. He has no control therefore no responsibility, the responsibility is on the hands of the manipulator.