Moshe Gershuni : No Father, No Mother

The existential oeuvre of Moshe Gershuni (* 1936 in Tel Aviv) spans a period of over forty years. Uncom-promising and evocative, his prolific production of paintings, drawings, and sculptures has an unmedi-ated quality that is reflected in his working method. Spreading sheets of paper on the ground, he crawls over them, with his bare hands immersed in paint like blood-dripping wounds. Many paintings include historically loaded symbols and handwritten Hebrew passages from Jewish prayers, which turn the bumpy, overflowing surfaces of paint-his seemingly invol-untary, pre-lingual compositions-into a living theat-rical performance, a frenzied ritual. Sensual and con-ceptual, emotional and critical, authentic and well-staged, his works transcend oppositions, infusing his-torical commemoration with the cathartic immediacy of the painterly act. Ausstellung/Exhibition: Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 12.9.-31.12.2014