Yossi Breger
04 Jan - 15 Feb 2014
Eleonora of Toledo (detail from Dutchess of Tuscany, Allessandro Allori, Florence, 1560/62), Bode Museum, Berlin, 2011, color photograph, 61x90 cm, edition of 5
YOSSI BREGER
Time is not Money
4 January - 15 February 2014
The exhibition presents 130 photographs, mostly taken in the last three years, from various places around the world Paris, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Shanghai, Berlin, Frankfurt, Athens, Amsterdam, Cologne, Brussels, Madrid among others.
The photographs were taken in the course of everyday life and depict landscapes, buildings, spaces, objects and people; the foundations of any human system. Each image thoughtfully and harmoniously describes a chosen thing in its specific time and place, and yet includes within it the further, ideal and conceptual dimension, in which each object represents a fundamental cultural category: the Book, the Window, the Picture, the Landscape, and so on. The exhibition attempts to make what may bephotography's strongest quality -- its ability to create consciousness -- ever more present. In recent years, this quality has developed greatly and its use has become ever more sophisticated.
The photographic installation creates a story-like reading environment with a circular and hierarchical structure, which advances from each photograph's story to the subnarratives of each photo group and finally joins into the sphere of the basic, whole narrative. The various hierarchical story-lines examine the status of the single, independent photograph in itself, as a concept and as a life event, while also examining its place in relation to the other images, and in relation to a general human cultural system.
The installation and combinations of images aims to follow the process in which pictures accumulate into content, or into abstract yet simple, coherent system that articulates a surrealist and yet understandable story, which exceeds any specific thing, time, or place. All together, it creates a whole that defines a procedure, that becomes a model for a world in human proportion, which communicates an outline of the being, movement and thought of as if "everyone" in relation to the world and its "things", culture and nature, to the general human system.
Yossi Breger was born in France in 1960. He received the Gottesdiener prize for Israeli art in 1996 and is a senior lecturer in the photography department and in the MFA program of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem. He was the head of Bezalel's photography department from 2000-2006, and his last solo exhibition, And there was evening And there was morning, One day, was shown at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2011.
Time is not Money
4 January - 15 February 2014
The exhibition presents 130 photographs, mostly taken in the last three years, from various places around the world Paris, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Shanghai, Berlin, Frankfurt, Athens, Amsterdam, Cologne, Brussels, Madrid among others.
The photographs were taken in the course of everyday life and depict landscapes, buildings, spaces, objects and people; the foundations of any human system. Each image thoughtfully and harmoniously describes a chosen thing in its specific time and place, and yet includes within it the further, ideal and conceptual dimension, in which each object represents a fundamental cultural category: the Book, the Window, the Picture, the Landscape, and so on. The exhibition attempts to make what may bephotography's strongest quality -- its ability to create consciousness -- ever more present. In recent years, this quality has developed greatly and its use has become ever more sophisticated.
The photographic installation creates a story-like reading environment with a circular and hierarchical structure, which advances from each photograph's story to the subnarratives of each photo group and finally joins into the sphere of the basic, whole narrative. The various hierarchical story-lines examine the status of the single, independent photograph in itself, as a concept and as a life event, while also examining its place in relation to the other images, and in relation to a general human cultural system.
The installation and combinations of images aims to follow the process in which pictures accumulate into content, or into abstract yet simple, coherent system that articulates a surrealist and yet understandable story, which exceeds any specific thing, time, or place. All together, it creates a whole that defines a procedure, that becomes a model for a world in human proportion, which communicates an outline of the being, movement and thought of as if "everyone" in relation to the world and its "things", culture and nature, to the general human system.
Yossi Breger was born in France in 1960. He received the Gottesdiener prize for Israeli art in 1996 and is a senior lecturer in the photography department and in the MFA program of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem. He was the head of Bezalel's photography department from 2000-2006, and his last solo exhibition, And there was evening And there was morning, One day, was shown at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2011.