Thirteen artists, six women and seven men, participate in Part II of the exhibition Family/Tree, with paintings, sculptures and installations. The age gap between them is over forty years, and in this sense they represent several generations and different artistic approaches in Israeli art. However, the works are all from a limited period – the past decade, from 2000 onwards, except for one work dated 1996. As expected, there is similarity in the works, derived from the historical and artistic periods alike: a note of pessimism and elegy.
The 1980's were a period of great changes in the Israeli art field. And although only a fraction of these came to full fruition during the decade itself, several of the period's cultural trends – even if manifest then only in embryonic form – were to continue exerting an influence on both the field itself and contemporary artistic creation and its reception.
