The Museum Presents Itself
Israeli Art from the Museum Collection
Opening reception: Thursday, January 22nd, 2015 8PM
Opening date: Friday 23 January 2015
Closing date: Show Has No Closing Date
Curator: Ellen Ginton
The new display holds three chapters: Pioneering and National Modernism presents Modernism-influenced art made in pre-state Israel and in its early years; Post-Zionist Post-Minimalism: Internationality and Subjectivity—art from the 1970s to 1999, relating to the geometric and personal; and Early 21st Century: Reductivism and Redundancy—art with an emphasis on Minimalism and Maximalism; a subchapter is dedicated to Post-Modernism—Feminism, presenting works by the first decisive generation of women artists from the 1970s.