New exhibition yesterday and Tuesday
Back to sender
Drawings
Max Epstein
Curator: Rina Peled
Opening 2.5.22 at 20:00
Wall Gallery 1 - Yesterday, Tuesday, Nahalat Shiva Jerusalem
Lock 19.6.22

Back to the Sender is a new exhibition at the Wall 1 Gallery at the Cafe Yesterday Yesterday in Jerusalem, featuring more than 20 drawings by IDC artist Max Epstein, combining text whose owner is not identified with original images.
The name of the exhibition 'Back to the Sender' The customer from the field of mail deliveries encodes a unique story that indicates the formation of the exhibition.
It all started when Max Epstein, a resident of the picturesque neighborhood of Ein Kerem, found in one of his wanderings in the neighborhood a pile of carelessly packed folders in cardboard packaging. He did not know what would happen to the pile but as usual, he took the "bargain" to the studio, where he discovered that it was a kind of private and unique "archive" that includes handwritten Hebrew letters, letters in German and English in print, project documents in Russian and various envelopes from 1974- 1968. As an artist who does not usually begin his works on a "smooth board", Max Epstein used texts he found as a basis for new drawings as the texture and text become an integral part of the drawing and take on additional meaning.
For example: a drawing of rats is done on printed texts in German, and thus the image together with the textual page form another significant layer that can be interpreted personally by the viewer.
Curator Rina Peled: "Max plays with us - the viewers - in a kind of game of discovery and concealment: sometimes he allows us to read the text and sometimes he chooses to hide it. Max consciously chose not to read the texts in the" archive "he found, and did not try to reveal its owner. "He prefers to imagine him when he has a dialogue with him through his drawings. In the same way, we viewers are left with the question marks and are invited to exercise our imagination while watching the exhibition."

Max Epstein, an interdisciplinary artist living in Ein Kerem Jerusalem, has exhibited in many solo exhibitions alongside participating in group exhibitions in Israel and abroad.

Wall 1, Art Gallery at Yesterday and Yesterday
'Yesterday Yesterday' is a well-known and beloved Jerusalem institution that combines culture, coffee and food. Its location in a historic 19th-century conservation building in Nahalat Shiva and the unique atmosphere of the place have made it one of the favorite places in the city that attracts large crowds from all over the country.
The new gallery 'Wall 1' presents rotating exhibitions, works by veteran and young artists, which maintain a dialogue with texts of poetry and literature. The concept by which the gallery was established draws inspiration from the models of the cultural living room and cafe of the turn of the last century in Europe, where creative encounters took place between artists, poets, writers and musicians, which spawned various movements and trends in modern art and culture.
Yesterday, 02-6232758 www.tmol-shilshom.co.il
5 Yoel Moshe Salomon Street, Jerusalem, Nahalat Shiva Jerusalem Pedestrian Street

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