Minimal Standard Model at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art /  by -

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.

SPOTLIGHT: Reuven Israel / Wasserman Projects /  by -

Reuven Israel's sculptural work has an air of unreality. Outlining symbols of shared memories they or not abstractions of specific objects but sculptures thriving for autonomy as unique things. Encountering these objects evokes a range of associations often related to furniture, practical science, religious artifacts, architecture and symbols of power.

The sculptures are crafted individually mainly from wood and paint adopting features in shape and surface that give the impression of metal or plastic. Meticulously fabricated they may easily confuse a viewer to think of them as objects out of an assembly line. Each body of work is accompanied by a series of watercolor drawings. On large sheets of paper, rendered sculptures float on dark backgrounds determining sets of different relationships between shapes in imaginary form, wait and perspective.