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Jonathan Touitou: Detective Elchmanyahu’s auto-da-fe

Jonathan Touitou: Detective Elchmanyahu’s auto-da-fe

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Detective Elchmanyahu's auto-da-fe follows the bound to fail investigation on the fire that burned a public art collection in southern Tel Aviv. The dodgy officer in charge uses all imaginable tricks and trades of whodunit novels to unfold a police investigation that casts a gloomy yet lucid look over the Israeli culture and its visual art scene. Framed in between fact and fiction by the tendentious writing of Jonathan Touitou, this book is a layered investigation of the art world and its deeds.

Against the backdrop of the second Intifada and today's recurrent undermining of Palestinian rights, this controversial book will provide its readers with a perspective of an infiltrated outsider on the Israeli society, possibly supply the welding torch for the cynical ones, a bonfire for the freaks and fireworks for the wholehearted.

 

 

Born in Paris to immigrated northern African parents, Jonathan Touitou’s trajectory is akin to the wandering Jew. Hoping to reverse the curse, he left France for Jerusalem during the Oslo agreements only to find himself on the road again, twenty years later, for the milk of the holy land had turned sour.

Touitou studied photography and graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and design, the gallery of which he later directed and curated. He set up the Reservoir, an unrestricted and freely accessible temporary art collection. Touitou initiated the BAAD gallery, which functioned as a collaborative platform for creative thinkers of various fields. His works were shown at museums and galleries in Zurich, Berlin, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. His writing was commissioned, among others, by the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, the Liebling Haus – White City Center and the Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York. He works and lives with his wife and son in Berlin.

 

 

Title: Detective Elchmanyahu’s auto-da-fe
Publisher: Onomatopee, 2021
Editor: Orit Bulgaru and Jonathan Touitou
Author: Jonathan Touitou 
Graphic Design: Quentin Gaudry, assisted by Aurelie Morra
Format: Softcover
Size: 11 x 17.8 cm, 230 pages
ISBN: 9789493148635
Edition: 700
 

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