Magic Lantern: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art

The Israel Museum presents “Magic Lantern: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art.”

November 7, 2011-April 13, 2012

Location: Bella and Harry Wexner Gallery

Artist: Michal Helfman, Ann Veronica Janssens, Adrian Paci, Yehudit Sasportas, Hiraki Sawa, and Maya Zak, among others

Curator: Suzanne Landau, Yulla and Jacques Lipchitz Chief Curator of the Fine Arts and Landeau Family Curator of Contemporary Art, and Amitai Mendelsohn, Curator of the David Orgler Department of Israel Art

Magic Lantern includes a range of new acquisitions and recent gifts of international and Israeli contemporary art, all on view for the first time at the Museum. The works, by artists including Michal Helfman, Ann Veronica Janssens, Adrian Paci, Yehudit Sasportas, Hiraki Sawa, and Maya Zak, among others, deal with the subject of enchanted and metaphorical landscapes, wondrous interiors, and day-dreams.

Image:Anila Rubiku,Casa all’italiana – Superleggera, 2008. Courtesy of the Israel Museum.