John Kiss
Kiss partnered with curators Doron Polak and Iris Elhanani to create a series of permanent parking lot exhibits, to be well-lit and to bring a sense of calm to these "forgotten" areas. These installations were aimed at making the experience of the car owners and passers-by "safer and friendlier." The goal of the project was "to bring inspiration even at surprising and unexpected venues." Unlike a museum, which requires an entry ticket, this exhibition was open to the public for free. The idea was "to make art accessible to the wide public" as well as "add art and culture" to an otherwise mundane experience, an ongoing project that Kiss was involved in for several years. The exhibitions were staged in parking lots throughout Israel and included the "best" of Israeli artists, including Dudu Gerstein, Raphael Perez, Naftali Bezem, Nachum Gutman, Menashe Kadishman, Lea Nikel, Eran Shakine and others. Kiss himself presented some of his Naïve Series works in these exhibitions, a large scale triptych of Tel Aviv was presented in Herzliya, as well as other paintings of large scale.