Harold Rubin
26 May - 16 Jun 2007
HAROLD RUBIN
"Diary Pages"
May 26 - June 16
Artist, teacher, jazz musician and architect, Harold Rubin was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1932. After five solo shows between 1956 and 1962, Rubin was charged with blasphemy for his drawing My Jesus and acquitted after a five week trial, after which he emigrated to Israel in 1963.
The Goodman Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new work by Harold Rubin, entitled Diary Pages opening on Saturday 26th May 2007. This body of work, including both large canvasses and paper works, based on pages from a diary that Rubin has been documenting since childhood, was created between 2004 and 2007. Diary Pages is a personal commentary on his life and the lives that exist around him, many of these works describing the experience of a woman’s existence in a man’s world. Rubin has described the creation of this body of work as, "an urgency to make a mark that will take me into a process of discovery about the human animal and our amazing spirit for survival. Which provoke me to build a momentum within the process of work wherever it takes me. A timeless magnificent failure and occupation that provides me with a kind of sanity, a stimulation to proceed".
This exhibition will be accompanied by the documentary of a one hour film that will be partially filmed on this exhibition. The film, entitled A Magnificent Failure, tells the story of Harold Rubin's life and work. After more than 4 decades of artistic creation in Israel, the film follows Harold Rubin back to Johannesburg, the wellspring of his art. This is where he grew up as a man and artist; where sneaked into Sophiatown to play Jazz with the best, printed the Sharpeville drawings, and was finally put on trial for an anti-establishment work called My Jesus. In a strange twist of events, this trial pushed Rubin out of South Africa and into Israel. The film’s director is Rubin's daughter, Jasmine Kainy, an Israeli film-maker who grew up on his stories of Johannesburg of the early 1960's. The film will be on distribution after October 2007.
This exhibition will open on Saturday 26th May at noon, and closes on the 16th June 2007
"Diary Pages"
May 26 - June 16
Artist, teacher, jazz musician and architect, Harold Rubin was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1932. After five solo shows between 1956 and 1962, Rubin was charged with blasphemy for his drawing My Jesus and acquitted after a five week trial, after which he emigrated to Israel in 1963.
The Goodman Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new work by Harold Rubin, entitled Diary Pages opening on Saturday 26th May 2007. This body of work, including both large canvasses and paper works, based on pages from a diary that Rubin has been documenting since childhood, was created between 2004 and 2007. Diary Pages is a personal commentary on his life and the lives that exist around him, many of these works describing the experience of a woman’s existence in a man’s world. Rubin has described the creation of this body of work as, "an urgency to make a mark that will take me into a process of discovery about the human animal and our amazing spirit for survival. Which provoke me to build a momentum within the process of work wherever it takes me. A timeless magnificent failure and occupation that provides me with a kind of sanity, a stimulation to proceed".
This exhibition will be accompanied by the documentary of a one hour film that will be partially filmed on this exhibition. The film, entitled A Magnificent Failure, tells the story of Harold Rubin's life and work. After more than 4 decades of artistic creation in Israel, the film follows Harold Rubin back to Johannesburg, the wellspring of his art. This is where he grew up as a man and artist; where sneaked into Sophiatown to play Jazz with the best, printed the Sharpeville drawings, and was finally put on trial for an anti-establishment work called My Jesus. In a strange twist of events, this trial pushed Rubin out of South Africa and into Israel. The film’s director is Rubin's daughter, Jasmine Kainy, an Israeli film-maker who grew up on his stories of Johannesburg of the early 1960's. The film will be on distribution after October 2007.
This exhibition will open on Saturday 26th May at noon, and closes on the 16th June 2007