Amit Cabessa | Behind the Fence

Curator: Aya Lurie
May 13 - Aug. 5, 2017

Amit Cabessa (born 1977) seems to work in a place of natural, unbroken time, which is somehow removed from the hectic mainstream. But do not mistake him. Feverish vectors extend from him, constantly flowing inward and outward, seeking to decipher and explore art-historical notions, discussions of locality and identity politics, while touching on spiritual roots, the depths of the soul, archaic rituals, and Pop culture. They all serve to keep Cabessa’s hand, with urgent obstinacy, on the beating pulse of things.

Going into Kibbutz Magal, on the way to Cabessa’s studio at the center of this pastoral place where he was born and raised, it is hard not to recall all the kibbutz-member painters who were required, in an age of collectivist ideology, not so many decades ago, to justify to the “collective” their need to engage in personal art, which is neither productive nor an expression of the ideological movement’s values.

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