The Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents Yadid Rubin: Plowed Color, open through 18 December 2010.
Yadid Rubin’s paintings offer a new syntax of landscape, which does not correspond with the concepts of subjectivity, intimacy and authenticity through which Israeli art has woven its identity.
This is landscape delighting in the “decorative,” the “synthetic” and the “beautiful”—terms that were unmentionable for many years in Israeli art’s inner circle; these are landscape paintings in which the sense of place and its absence exist side by side, composing a new reality. The exhibition sets out Yadid Rubin’s work since the late 1960s. Alongside chapters from his early work—conceptual works and units of paintings of kibbutz life, studio interior and landscape, the exhibition includes paintings from the late 1980s until today, as a crystallized unit: landscape scenes from his life, including field, house, tree, path, horizon line and sun in countless compositions and painterly inventions.
Yadid Rubin, born 1938, lives and works in Kibutz Givat Haim Yichud. Rubin’s paintings express remarkably and beautifully the meaning of the allusive Term “Israeli characteristics”: the landscape of the kibutz, vast plowed fields, plantations filled with fruitful trees, columns of cypresses, houses and tractors. Small buildings and open spaces long gone live on in his paintings. Yet, Rubin paints in his closed, window-less studio.
Image: Yadid Rubin Painting, 1991-2000 Tel Aviv Museum of Art
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