Panda

Oil pastels, wax crayons and litho sticks, collectively known as Panda, gave birth to a unique body of work in Israel during the 1960s–1970s, the only place where they were used for complete oeuvres—thus making the practice a substantial praxis. In the 1960s, sensibility painting seemed to have reached exhaustion; with oil pastels, the pictorial enterprise presented itself refreshed. Oil pastels have sustained exceptional intensity, important as well as unique to the place and time where it happened.

Participating artists: Alima, Pinchas Abramovic, Arie Aroch, John Byle, Yitzhak Danziger, Marcel Janco, Menashe Kadishman, Moshe Kupferman, Raffi Lavie, Uri Lifshitz, Zvi Meirovich, Joshua Neustein, Lea Nikel, Avigdor Stematsky, Yehezkel Streichman, Aviva Uri.