Exhibiton:
February 19, 2008 — July 27, 2008
The exhibition surveys recent work by contemporary Israeli artists. On loan from important private Bay Area collections, the paintings, photographs, and media art in the exhibition demonstrate the progressiveness and internationalism of the art world in Israel during the past decade. Sixty years after the establishment of the state, Israeli art is truly integrated into the global cultural landscape. Artists bring their own diverse cultural backgrounds (Morocco, Iraq, former Soviet Union) to bear on their experiences of working in the world capitals (Berlin, New York, London) and making art about life in Israel as well as such places on the world map as Bosnia and Kazakhstan. The names of artists in the exhibition have become familiar to American public and collectors from international biennials and museum exhibitions, including Adi Nes, Yehudit Sasportas, Sigalit Landau, and Michal Rovner. The exhibition establishes a dialogue with the historical memory preserved by the collection of the Museum, which is strong in Israeli Fine Arts of the decades following the formation of the state of Israel in 1948.
February 19, 2008 — July 27, 2008
Sunday - Wednesday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Thursday 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Judah L. Magnes Museum
2911 Russell Street, Berkeley - map
www.magnes.org
(510) 549-6950
$6 adults, $4 students and seniors, children under 12 free.
@60.art.israel.world is made possible with support from the Consulate General of Israel, San Francisco and is co-sponsored by the Israel Center, San Francisco. The Museum’s educational programming has been made possible through a generous gift from the Isabel Wiel Trust.
Sarah Breitberg-Semel, art historian and former curator of Israeli art at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, lectured at the @60.art.israel.israel.world opening reception on February 17, 2008:
