Moshe Gershuni: No Father, No Mother

The existential oeuvre of Moshe Gershuni (* 1936 in Tel Aviv) spans a period of over forty years. Uncom promising and evocative, his prolific production of paintings, drawings, and sculptures has an unmedi ated quality that is reflected in his working method. Spreading sheets of paper on the ground, he crawls over them, with his bare hands immersed in paint like blood-dripping wounds. Many paintings include historically loaded symbols and handwritten Hebrew passages from Jewish prayers, which turn the bumpy, overflowing surfaces of paint-his seemingly invol untary, pre-lingual compositions-into a living theat rical performance, a frenzied ritual. Sensual and con ceptual, emotional and critical, authentic and well-staged, his works transcend oppositions, infusing his torical commemoration with the cathartic immediacy of the painterly act. Ausstellung/Exhibition: Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 12.9.-31.12.2014