Carlos Amorales,"Black Cloud"(Latent studio),2007.Image courtesy The
Israel Museum JERUSALEM.-The
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, will inaugurate the contemporary
galleries of its new Edmond and Lily Safra Fine Arts Wing with Still /
Moving, an exhibition exploring the use of slow and meditative movement
in a range of mediums, including installation, video, and photography.
Featuring 26 works from the Museum’s contemporary collection by Carlos
Amorales, Olafur Eliasson, Mona Hatoum, Ori Gersht, Aernout Mik, and
Bill Viola, among others, Still / Moving showcases the international
breadth, depth, and growth of the Israel Museum’s contemporary
holdings—more than one-third of the works on view are new acquisitions
or gifts, and half have never before been on view at the Museum. The
exhibition is one of a series of collection-based projects that will be
on view in the Museum’s renewed and reinstalled galleries beginning July
26, when the Museum opens its upgraded and expanded campus to the
public.
"With the inauguration of our renewed campus this summer, we will be
able both to showcase the richness of our encyclopedic holdings and to
feature a number of exceptional new acquisitions and gifts that have
recently entered our collections,” said James S. Snyder, Anne and Jerome
Fisher Director of the Museum. "Since the beginning of our project in
2007, we have added substantially to our holdings in many collecting
areas, with nearly 150 new acquisitions in modern and contemporary art
alone. We are eager to share these new additions with our public, and we
consider Still / Moving a highlight of our inaugural presentations.”
Each of the works in Still / Moving takes a different approach to
motion as a medium for stimulating contemplation, exploring the power of
slow movement to fascinate and even hypnotize, and the ways in which
movement can modify our perception of space and our experience of
individual works of art. The exhibition, on view through April 2011, is
curated by Suzanne Landau, Yulla and Jacques Lipchitz Chief Curator of
the Arts and Landeau Family Curator of Contemporary Art.
"Many artists have attempted to depict motion and to show movement
over time—from Italian Futurist interpretations of a speeding
automobile, through video artists’ transformation of the static image
into a digital projection. Still / Moving explores how contemporary
artists have approached the meditative aspect of slow movement and
incorporated it into the experience of their works,” said Landau.
Still / Moving was inspired by two contemporary works in the
collection that incorporate movement as a key element: Junya Ishigami’s
newly acquired Table (2005) and Bill Viola’s An Instrument of Simple
Sensation (1983), which has been in the Museum’s collection since 1995.
Table, an ultra-thin, 9 meter (29.5 foot) long steel tabletop, supported
only at its two ends and adorned with a still-life of everyday objects,
captivates the viewer as it undulates in slow motion. Drawing
connections with the tradition of still-life painting, Ishigami’s piece
is a "moving-life” that appears simultaneously to fight and cheat
gravity. Viola’s An Instrument of Simple Sensation places visitors
inside a metaphorical human body, centered around a monitor showing
video images of an exposed and vulnerable heart whose beat reverberates
throughout the exhibition space. Incorporating the experience of the
observer as a component of the installation, this early Viola work
features the contemplative approach to time and movement that
characterizes his video art.
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