Art Shows > Yitzhak Greenfield Cycles of Heaven and Earth,
Yitzhak Greenfield Cycles of Heaven and Earth, / The Jerusalem Artists Houseטלפון - 02-6253653 14/06/2008 to - 19/07/2008 Curator: Irena Gordon Cycles of Heaven and Earth is a retrospective exhibition of the art of Yitzhak Greenfield, an artist whose work spans almost sixty years: from his adolescence and early studies in New York, through his arrival in Israel and establishment as an artist on a kibbutz, and until his move to Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, where he has lived and worked since. The exhibition includes around 100 works dating from the 1950's until most recent ones. The works reflect wide cycles of artistic creation, which focus on the country's landscapes and people, on heavenly and terrestrial Jerusalem, on the Hebrew alphabet and on central themes in Jewish tradition and culture. Greenfield constantly deals with the tension between figurative and abstract. He creates a unique symbolist array and forms a visual language, which rely upon both a Jewish and a modernistic iconography. His oeuvre nourishes on various sources of inspiration the art of the Far East alongside Middle-Eastern archeology; European Modernism and American Abstract Expressionism alongside the Bible and Kabbalah. At the same time his work is founded on constant exploration and consummation of the possibilities embedded in drawing, in painting, in printmaking and in collage. The exhibition exposes the artist's extraordinary continuous confrontation with the spiritual and material aspects of art. Gallery talk with the artist will take place on Sunday, June 29th, 2008 at 17:00 The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue location - The Jerusalem Artists House Time - 14/06/2008 to - 19/07/2008 |
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