War and Peace – 50 Years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop
The exhibition marks 50 years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop. The Workshop, and Arik Kilemnik who heads it, established the medium of print at the core of Israeli art, by inviting artists to explore various printing techniques.
Some of these artists were well-known, others were at the beginning of their careers; encouraged by the Workshop’s team, they set off on a material adventure, free to dare and experiment. Many of the works created in the Workshop have become iconic in the emerging canon of Israeli art. In the spirit of our times, the exhibition’s title is taken from Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece, War and Peace (1869). The exhibition shifts between the two underlying forms of existence and draws life cycles and generational alternations, against the thunderous background chords of history. The exhibition’s experiential wealth and expressive multitude faithfully attest to the Jerusalem Print Workshop’s unique character.
Exhibiting artists: Larry Abramson, Nelly Agassi, Alima, Maya Attoun, Ilit Azoulay, Michal Bachi, Halil Balabin, Jennifer Bar Lev, Aya Ben Ron, Asaf Ben Zvi, Eliahou Eric Bokobza, Avital Cnaani, Stuart Duffin, Avraham Eilat, Hanna Farah-Kufer Bir’im, Atsmon Ganor, Moshe Gershuni, Michael Gitlin, Dov Heller, Moshe Hoffman, Erez Israeli, Eti Jacobi, Arik Kilemnik, Angela Klein, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Shosh Kormush, Miki Kratsman, Ofer Lellouche, Ra’anan Levy, Hila Lulu Lin Farah-Kufer Bir’im, Uriel Miron, Motti Mizrachi, Michal Na’aman, Karam Natour, Sharon Poliakine, David Reeb, Maria Saleh Mahameed, Merav Salomon, Yehiel Shemi, Alina Speshilov, Zvi Tolkovsky, Igael Tumarkin, Gil Yefman, Tigist Yoseph Ron, Maya Zack, Masha Zusman.
Dov Heller, No pasarán, 2017-2018
From a series of 22 woodcut and hand coloring prints
Jerusalem Print Workshop Collection
The exhibition is held in collaboration with the Jerusalem Print Workshop.
All works in the exhibition were printed and published by the Jerusalem Print Workshop.