The Israel Museum in Jerusalem presents Magic Lantern. Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art an exhibition on view November 7, 2011-April 13, 2012 in the Bella and Harry Wexner Gallery.
Magic Lantern includes a range of new acquisitions and recent gifts of international and Israeli contemporary art, all on view for the first time at the Museum. The works, by artists including Michal Helfman, Ann Veronica Janssens, Adrian Paci, Yehudit Sasportas, Hiraki Sawa, and Maya Zak, among others, deal with the subject of enchanted and metaphorical landscapes, wondrous interiors, and day-dreams.
Artists: Adrian Paci, Yehudit Sasportas, Hiraki Sawa, and Maya Zack, among others.
Curator: Suzanne Landau, Yulla and Jacques Lipchitz Chief Curator of the Fine Arts and Landeau Family Curator of Contemporary Art, and Amitai Mendelsohn, Curator of the David Orgler Department of Israel Art
Image: Vahram Aghasyan, Ghost City, 2005–2007. Three chromogenic prints from a series of ten. Purchase, Barbara and Eugene Schwartz. Contemporary Art Acquisition Endowment Fund.
