Manofim 2022 | Winner of the Osnat Mozes Painting Prize

Winner of the Osnat Mozes Painting Prize

Opening: 9.10.21 - Closing: 11.12.21

Artist: Tomer Rosenthal
Curator: Eli Petel

Winner of the 2021 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist

Tomer Rosenthal’s art exclusively addresses the act of drawing, extracting therefrom an inner gaze at once deep and dim. Rosenthal explores the inner self, the psyche, and a situation which seems ostensibly impossible to describe via images. The figures are introduced as animist (a term coined by anthropologist E.B. Tylor as one of the earliest sources for religion, and hence for the spirit and the soul), oscillating between the symbolic and the organic, as if they were on the brink of stagnation; at times seductive, they reveal to the viewer something about him/herself.

Tomer Rosental, Hand with Flower, 2016, charcoal on paper

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Jerusalem Artists’ House

The Jerusalem Artists House is situated in a historic building that once housed "The Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts," founded by Boris Schatz in 1906, today the current Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design. For a time the building housed the Bezalel National Museum, precursor of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. When the Israel Museum was opened, the collections of the Bezalel National Museum were transferred to it, where they formed the initial core collection of the Museum. Since 1965, the House has served as home to the Association for Jerusalem Artists. In this capacity, the House has become a dynamic center for exhibitions, displaying unique and varied works of both Israeli and international artists. The annual exhibition plan includes a series focusing on prominent young artists exhibiting their works for the first time, as well as a series of retrospective works by veteran artists. In addition, the Artists House displays group exhibitions on a wide range of subjects, joint presentations between Israeli and international artists, as well as a variety of other activities.