Manofim 2022 | Winner of 2022 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize

Winner of 2022 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize

Opening: 10.9.22 - Closing: 12.11.22

Artist: Rachel Rabinovitch
Curator: Sally Haftel Naveh

Jury statement: Rachel Rabinovitch’s paintings affect the viewer in a wide range of aspects: physical, emotional, and intellectual. Prima facie, it looks like contemporary painting, which draws a line between Symbolism and Surrealism, thereby introducing themes pertaining to Jewish tradition and the external “natural world” that is being studied. But the main feeling arising from her paintings is one of a private, fantastic, at times morbid world, which strives to explore the duration of observation and the dynamic nature of the eye in its transition from the general to the specific and from one detail to another as an eventful journey. This experience generates an intimacy teeming with revelations between the viewer and the work. Oscillating between matter and darkness, between presence and absence, the eye is lured into a fresh and confident painting, embarking on a quest between the general and the individual, the cultural and the natural.

Gallery talk in the exhibition “May Elimelech | The Princess – exhibition in the 23rd Nidbach series”

Saturday 17.9 at 12:00

Rachel Rabinovitch, Untitled, 2021, oil on wood. Photo: Daniel Hanoch

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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.