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. Not only do some of the works carry clear images of death, end, decline and violence, but expressions of death, calamity and terrorism also recur in the texts written about them – independently, by various writers. Nurit David’s work is a replica of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “The Triumph of Death” (1562), which inadvertently seems to represent the whole collection. Artists in the exhibition: Moshe Gershuni, Raffi Lavie, Yudith Levin, Gabriel Klasmer, Nurit David, Yitzhak Livneh, Diti Almog, Gil Shachar, Eliezer Sonnenschein, Sigalit Landau, Daniel Silver, Angela Klein, Jan Tichy, Netally Schlosser.
New acquisitions donated by the Rivka Saker and Uzi Zucker Fund for Israeli Contemporary Art.
Curator Ellen Ginton