Hagai Farago | HED Magazine

Led by Hagai Farago, a Tel-Aviv-based printmaker, HED is a silkscreen, hand-printed Artist-Magazine that brings together a mosaic of comments and impressions on the raging war, facilitating a complex discourse over its 24 pages.

Hagai asks; “What kind of printmaking can rise in such devastating times? As a screen-printing enthusiast I was eager to find a way to re-address my printing practices in search of personal purpose.” After months of concussion and stress, Hagai chose to pursue a group project as a way to act in response to the war. He invited a multidisciplinary and diverse group of artists to join forces in the publishing of an Artist-Magazine, all printed manually in silkscreen printing as part of a collaborative effort.

The magazine was named HED – Wartime Magazine; “hed” meaning echo in Hebrew. The first edition, released in Summer 2024, consists of very personal responses across a variety of styles and formats. Drawings, poems, photography, and collage all came together into the print workshop, harnessing the potential of the screens to accept a wide range of visual expressions. In order to maintain a uniform nature to all the works appearing in the Magazine, Hagai and his team chose a consistent tone of blue for the printing of the whole magazine, cover to cover.

Hagai comments; “In fact, we were troubled with self-doubts: Why should another publication be made about the war? We live in times of hyper-inflation of information, imagery and reports. The news train never stops.” With these questions in mind, HED took the shape of a communal act, thus the magazine is a place for intimate, personal dialogue. Hagai continues; “HED gives room for personal acts of reach-out between the artists and the readers, and in between the artists themselves. The mosaic of work featured in the magazine dwells on families near and far; on dreams and horror. The war appeared to us at the print workshop like a dark prism with a thousand different faces.”

Limited Edition of 140 copies
Print Production and Content Editing: Hagai Farago
Graphic Design: Guy Mizrachi
Participating Artists (A-Z): Afek Adler, Andrew Saltzman, Celia Garion, David (Duchi) Cohen, Eden Sharon, Hagai Farago, Haim Shushan, Itay Ben Zur, Liri Agami, Michael Barzellai, Noga Cohen, Nur Patishi, “Strudel”, Yotam Cohen and Yotam Goren

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