Meir Gal’s one person show at Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art is the second part in a series titled “The Story of Israeli Art”. The first part was shown in 1995 at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

In this show Meir Gal continues to survey and document the writings of numerous writers, critics, curators, etc. active in the Israeli art world since the 1940’s. He selects various sentences and statements, uses them as quotations and places them in a new context alongside popular images from contemporary Israeli life. By doing so Gal reframes Israeli writing about art and lays out the textual conditions under which visual artists have been operating for decades.

Also included in the show are two objects titled “Sky Shield for the State of Israel” as well as "The Complete Jewish Lexicon" and "The Concise Israeli Lexicon".

Meir Gal would like to acknowledge and thank all the writers quoted in this show, but are too numerous to mention.

Project Room: Shahar Yahalom

Pier

Shahar Yahalom’s works deal with basic and principal questions of art: image, material, shape, color, size and their expressions in the various media as sculpture, drawing, photography, video and sound, with the latter usually silent.
Her images are taken from a wide cultural range connecting between the stuff of art and life. Yahalom uses the most accessible and simple materials, thus materials from the workshop naturally coexist with elements from personal, everyday life but undergo a slight adaptation. The final piece takes the viewer’s consciousness to the far away places of a dream-like, fantastic and romantic experience.

The new work, “Pier”, sharpens the traits of her previous works: the seam between sculpture and drawing, drawing closer to the monochromatic color range of blacks and whites, and gothic, landscape and aquatic images.

Yoav Shmueli