Raffi Lavie played a prominent role in shaping avant-garde art in Israel. A founder of the 10+ group in 1965, he was a central figure in the “want of matter” school, promoting collage and the use of inexpensive materials such as plywood. Many of his paintings are characterized by the erasure of images, with scribbles, carvings, and broad strokes of color. Lavie’s work has been featured in more than eighty solo exhibitions and was the subject of a special retrospective at the fifty-third Venice Biennale in 2009.
The “Cellules,” or Cells, were six tiny all-white living spaces that Absalon planned to install in Tokyo, Paris, Zurich, New York, Tel Aviv, and Frankfurt. He intended to live in them, so they were…
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…
When we consider the quotidian life of our society, it is impossible to ignore the phenomenon of “avoidance”; namely, it seems that the public at large is unwilling to think too much about the…