Moshe Gershuni
- Item number 48
- Artist's name Moshe Gershuni, 1936-2017
- Item name Homage to Hanoch Levin, 2001
- Technique Silkscreen
- Measurements 78X102 cm
- Signed Signed, dated and numbered 50/60.
- Estimate $200 - 300
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Remarks
From the album , Inspires by Hanoch Levin, 2002.
Co-production in the memory of Hanoch Levin, of The Institute of Israeli Drama (r.a.), In associtaion with: The Yehoshua Rabinowitz Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts (r.a), The Israeli Playwrights Association, with the support of: Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport and 16 Israeli artists: Assad Azi, Ido Bar-El, Adam Berg, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Moshe Gershuni, Tamar Getter, Tsibi Geva, Menashe Kadishman, Dani Karavan*, Moshe Kupferman, Ofer Lellouche,Uri Lifshitz, Meir Pichhadze, Buky Schwartz, Igael Tumarkin, Micha Ullman.
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About The Artist
painter, born 1936, Tel Aviv. Lives in Tel Aviv. Moshe Gershuni was one of the first artists in Israel to explore highly modernistic , iconoclastic possibilities, at the end of the 1960s, creating works which were paradigms of Conceptual art, and in the 1970s extending his art to public performance. As a stimulating teacher in Bezalel, he fueled the imagination of many young artists, especially towards political involvement. At the Venice Biennale in 1980, Gershuni showed paintings on paper in red lacquer, amidst canals of blood, creating an atmosphere of Holocaust. Immediately afterwards he began a period of painting which stands out as a milestone in Israeli art. Using free scrawl, drip, finger paint, and calligraphy, he suggests personal, Zionist, Moslem and Christian symbols. These works seem to have been created in a trance. His recent silk screens ("Kaddish") are among the finest produced in the country in recent years.