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Postscripts

The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery Tel Aviv University

May – July 1992

Postscripts reflected diverse views of the notion of the “end” towards the threatening end of the second millennium in the Middle East. Aiming to shed light on the psychological aspect of the concrete anxiety, as it raised to the surface of the cultural expression, it examined various manifestations of dealing with apocalyptic themes, in both its concrete and metaphoric sense. It offered a commentary on works by leading Israeli artists that related to the millennial context. Images of relics, ruins, fires, ecological destruction, chaos, entropy, war, holocaust and death were presented in different modes – from the narrative, expressive ethos to structured abstract minimalism. Most of the works were from the late 1980s and beginning of the 1990s and they reflected the “atmosphere” of that period globally and locally. 

Participating artists

Arnon Ben-David, Dganit Berest, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Benni Efrat, Moshe Gershuni, Tsibi Geva, Uri Katzenstein, Gabi Klasmer, Haim Maor, Yehuda Porbuchrai, David Reeb, Michal Rovner, Daniel Sack, Simcha Shirman, David Shvili, Dorit Ya’acoby

Postscripts

The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery Tel Aviv University

May – July 1992

Postscripts reflected diverse views of the notion of the “end” towards the threatening end of the second millennium in the Middle East. Aiming to shed light on the psychological aspect of the concrete anxiety, as it raised to the surface of the cultural expression, it examined various manifestations of dealing with apocalyptic themes, in both its concrete and metaphoric sense. It offered a commentary on works by leading Israeli artists that related to the millennial context. Images of relics, ruins, fires, ecological destruction, chaos, entropy, war, holocaust and death were presented in different modes – from the narrative, expressive ethos to structured abstract minimalism. Most of the works were from the late 1980s and beginning of the 1990s and they reflected the “atmosphere” of that period globally and locally. 

Participating artists

Arnon Ben-David, Dganit Berest, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Benni Efrat, Moshe Gershuni, Tsibi Geva, Uri Katzenstein, Gabi Klasmer, Haim Maor, Yehuda Porbuchrai, David Reeb, Michal Rovner, Daniel Sack, Simcha Shirman, David Shvili, Dorit Ya’acoby

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