Izhar Patkin

New York City

The Jewish Museum currently presents Izhar Patkin: The Messiah’s glAss, a new exhibition by celebrated New York-based, Israeli born artist, Izhar Patkin.

The exhibition consists of two major works. The first is ‚You Tell Us What To Do Act III‘, a painting for four walls on pleated illusion (tulle) veils that envelop the entire perimeter of the ornate Offit Gallery like a continuous mural. The other is a 12-foot tall clear glass sculpture titled ‚The Messiah’s glAss‘, a figurative tour de force produced at the Centre International de Recherche Sur le Verre et les Arts Plastiques (CIRVA), Marseille, over a five year period from 2003 to 2007. Both the emblematic, transparent sculpture and the images in the translucent painting seem suspended like ghosts between appearance and disappearance, challenging conventions of art history. In Patkin’s words: “Cinema and Duchamp changed everything in painting. When I was a student, Super-8 films,performance art, and the documentation of performance were the door out of the canvas ghetto. That door was very seductive. Today it’s video, but I’m still in love with the promise of painting, and its object. For me, the curtain is a canvas. It’s not meant to be a curtain over a window. It’s meant to occupy the space of painting.”

The Jewish Museum

September 14th – November 11th, 2012
1109 5th Ave at 92nd St
New York NY 10128
USA

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