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In the early 1980s, Eshel-Gershuni began making what she called “fetishes” or “impossible jewelry,” transferring her skills as a jewelry-maker to sculpture. She combined expensive materials like gold…
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Bianca Eshel-Gershuni
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1981
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Years ago, Sujo wrote that the artist is “history’s caretaker,” and that he wished to show “the diversity of drawing as a record of lived experience.” Much of his artistic career has been devoted to…
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Glenn Sujo
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1982
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In 1976, Safdie was appointed by Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority to design a museum at Yad Vashem devoted to the 1.5 million children who were murdered in the Holocaust…
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Moshe Safdie
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1987
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Liebeskind’s design for a new extension to the Berlin Jewish Museum was the winner of a 1989 competition and was the first of his designs to be built. Its zigzagging shape was intended to evoke the…
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Daniel Libeskind
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
2001
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Kuper is known for his work with found objects, such as spoons, saws, paintbrushes, and clocks. He depicts them in paintings and sometimes incorporates them into sculptures. The worn-out, quotidian…
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Yuri Kuper
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1983
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Iofin’s portrait of his parents, painted before his emigration from the Soviet Union, was a sly protest against Socialist Realism. He painted in the style but parodied it by overloading his picture…
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Michael Iofin
Date:
1984
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In Love Dub, small figures climb up the walls of the gallery wearing flipper-like footwear. A similar image was replicated in a tattoo, shown in a photograph as part of the installation. Katzenstein…
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Uri Katzenstein
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1995
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Weinfeld, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, produced artworks addressing the question of who she would have been if she had herself been a prisoner in a concentration camp? Would she have been…
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Yocheved Weinfeld
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1990
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Grids and parallel lines are dominant features in Kupferman’s paintings and drawings. They provided a structure to which he added layers of paint or graphite and then repeatedly removed and reapplied…
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Moshe Kupferman
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Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, Israel
Date:
1978
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Petlin was known for his narrative art and for depicting subjects drawn from his own personal history. Weisswald (White Forest) is a series of nine paintings almost all of which are set on what looks…
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Irving Petlin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1987