Curator: Timna Seligman

Marking one hundred years since the birth of Arie Aroch, this exhibition includes works from the Israel Museum collection, as well as from the private collection of the Aroch family on extended loan to the Israel Museum. It aims to celebrate an artist whose importance and influence can still be seen in the local artistic landscape. Incorporating pieces from his early years as a student in Paris to works made shortly before his death in 1974, the exhibition spans his career and focuses on the range of mediums in which he excelled, including oil on canvas; oil, pencil and collage on wood and paper; painted reliefs; and oil stick on reproductions. Aroch created a full visual lexicon and the works in this exhibition allow the spectator to follow the stylistic process of abstraction and formal development that justifies his place as a father of Israeli Art
Gallery talk (in Hebrew) - 9.12.08 at 6pm