Moshe Gershuni : no father, no mother /
Gershuni, Moshe.
Breitberg-Semel, Sara.
Desaʾu, Ori.
Kittelmann, Udo.
LeVitte-Harten, Doreet.
Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin)
Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz,
c2014.
"Moshe Gershuni is one of the most important contemporary Israeli artists. Expressive and conceptual, his painterly universe is terrestrial yet marked by graceful transmutations. It engenders excessive physicality and confronts it with figurative iconography and Jewish liturgical passages that transform the overflowing surfaces of paint into living ritual. No Father No Mother is the title of the catalogue accompanying the presentation of the same name at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, and refers both to Gershuni's status as an orphan as well as an autogenerative artist. Highlightin the tension between his cultural roots and autonomous expression, the exhibitions reflects on his position as a Jewish-Israeli artist within a Christian-European art-historical context, and in a wider sense on his engagement with the particular conditions of Israeli modernism."
biog. ; exhibs. ; awards. ; colls.
Includes a conversation with the artist and Ory Dessau.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 13 Sept. - 31 Dec. 2014.
"Moshe Gershuni is one of the most important contemporary Israeli artists. Expressive and conceptual, his painterly universe is terrestrial yet marked by graceful transmutations. It engenders excessive physicality and confronts it with figurative iconography and Jewish liturgical passages that transform the overflowing surfaces of paint into living ritual. No Father No Mother is the title of the catalogue accompanying the presentation of the same name at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, and refers both to Gershuni's status as an orphan as well as an autogenerative artist. Highlightin the tension between his cultural roots and autonomous expression, the exhibitions reflects on his position as a Jewish-Israeli artist within a Christian-European art-historical context, and in a wider sense on his engagement with the particular conditions of Israeli modernism."