Category: Catalogs
Foreword The major problem that confronted me while compiling the catalogue was how to pare the central essay of a surfeit of details, the inclusion of which would…
Matter Charged with Spirit, Spirit Suffused with Matter* Sophia Dekel The unique art of Nora and Naomi is a blend of sensitivity and obduracy, its roots in…
Foreword “What we have to say is formed in childhood, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to say it.”( Barbara Hepworth) Upon immigrating to Israel,…
The exhibition Object/Object marked my first debut project for a museum institution, and it became a formative milestone in my curatorial journey. It laid the foundation for my…
An Israeli Object: A Matter of Time Sophia Dekel “Take, for instance, Robert Rauschenberg, the young American who was awarded the Grand Prize for painting at the Venice…
What is the creative process? What comes first: technique or technology? The idea or the product? A perfect plan or deviation from it? The expected or the accidental? And…
“Had Gadya: The Horror Circle” is a complex exhibition, which required the involvement of many partners. First and foremost, my sincere thanks to the dedicated and committed director…
Acknowledgments & credits In my research for architect David Reznik’s retrospective, I faced the absence of many original documents (preliminary drawings, personal and professional correspondence, models of works,…