Michael Halak: Faces and Landscapes opened at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Friday, March 16, 2012. Halak, who lives and works in Haifa, was awarded the 2011 Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter. Established in 2006 in honor of Ruth and Baruch Rappaport, the prize is to be awarded annually for ten years to an established and young painter, and in addition to a monetary prize, funds a solo exhibition for each at the museum.
On the exhibit Michael Halak: Faces and Landscapes –
The exhibition focuses on Michael Halak’s series of portraits and landscape paintings, which are charged with the tension between presence and absence, between identification and non-identification, between testimony and silencing, between memory and forgetfulness. Halak’s paintings, with their disturbing images of destruction, deletion, dismantling and damage, subvert the realistic style that seeks to capture an image of a whole, identical reality.
There is no closing date.
