MasterChat
Artist:
Itamar Shimshony
Curator:
Maayan Sheleff
MasterChat is Itamar Shimshony’s new project, created for the Jerusalem Artists’ Studios Art Cube Gallery. In the framework of the project, the artist invited four Israeli painters – Yair Garbuz, Miriam Cabessa, Yitzhak Livneh, and Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi – for a series of online conversations. The four painters, who belong to different generations and work in different styles, were documented talking with one another in front of their computer screens. They talked about the medium of painting in technical, emotional, intellectual and political contexts, about art, about the project, and about life. Following the conversations, Shimshony created a painting based on the painters’ instructions and comments, which will be shown alongside the documentation of the conversations
