David Tartakover is an Israeli artist, graphic designer, and curator who lives in Tel Aviv and is especially known for his politically controversial posters. His work is found in permanent collections of museums in Israel and abroad and he has had solo exhibitions in Israel, France, Japan, China, Germany, Poland, and Russia. Tartakover received the Israel Prize in 2002. He has been a senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem since 1976.
Mental Maps depicts mirrored images of a 1938 German railway map made from rubber and pigment. The left panel contains two lines of text that read “North is West” and “[I am imprinting it down…
This engraving from a Dutch translation of Leone Modena’s Historia de’ riti Ebraici (History of the Jewish Rites) pictures a Jewish divorce ceremony in Amsterdam, in which the wife is presented with a…
This bull figurine, 7 × 5 inches (17.5 cm × 12 cm), was cast in bronze with considerable detail. It combines highly realistic features—horns and ears, genitalia, legs and hooves—with more stylized…