 |
 |
 |
Vahram Aghasyan, born Armenia 1974
Ghost City, 2005–2007
Three chromogenic prints from a series of ten
Purchase, Barbara and Eugene Schwartz
Contemporary Art Acquisition Endowment Fund
B11.0878 (a–c) |
Julien Audebert, born France 1977
The Searchers, 2009–10
Lambda print mounted on aluminum under Diasec
Purchase, Contemporary Art Acquisitions Committee
of Les Amis Français du Musée d'Israël à Jérusalem
|
Ilit Azoulay, born Israel 1972
Tree for Too One, The Keys, Window, 2010
Chromogenic print and two exhibition copies
Purchase, "Here & Now" Contemporary Israeli Art Acquisitions Committee, Israel
B10.0676 (a–c) |
|
 |
 |
![<div > <p><strong>Tacita Dean</strong>, born UK 1965, active Berlin<br />
<em> Palast</em>, 2004<br />
16-mm color film, optical sound, 10:30 mins.<br />
Purchase, Barbara and Eugene Schwartz <br />
Contemporary Art Acquisition Endowment Fund
<br />
B11.0877<br />
<br />
From a text by the artist:
It is the building that always catches and holds the sun in the grey centre of the city: its regime-orange reflective glass mirroring the setting sun perfectly, as it moves from panel to panel along its chequered surface, drawing you in to notice it on your way up the Unter den Linden to Alexanderplatz [… – the abandoned building of] the Palast der Republik and former government building of the GDR, a contentious place that concealed its history in the opacity of its surface, but had now been run-down, stripped of its trimmings and was awaiting the verdict on its future.
[…]<br />
<br />
There are others, like me, who are attracted to the Palast for aesthetic reasons: the totalitarian aesthetic. We, who have no inkling of what the building meant when it had meaning; had no reason to look upon it and know the monster it contained – when the copper-tinted mirrored glass was not about catching reflections and deflecting the sun, but about looking in one direction only; about being observed without leave to observe.
</p>
</div>](images/thumbs/DeanTacita.jpg) |
Ulla von Brandenburg, born Germany 1974, active Paris
Five Folded Curtains, 2008
Cotton
Purchase, European Contemporary Art Acquisitions Committee
B10.0696 |
Luis Camnitzer, born Germany 1937, active New York
Landscape as an Attitude, 1979
Gelatin silver print
Purchase, Contemporary Art Acquisitions Committee
of American Friends of the Israel Museum, New York
B11.0880
|
Tacita Dean, born UK 1965, active Berlin
Palast, 2004
16-mm color film, optical sound, 10:30 mins.
Purchase, Barbara and Eugene Schwartz
Contemporary Art Acquisition Endowment Fund
B11.0877 |
|
 |
 |
 |
Trine Søndergaard & Nicolai Howalt
Søndergaard born Denmark 1972
Howalt born Denmark 1970
Kromanns Remise, 2005,
from the “How to Hunt” series
Digital chromogenic prints; triptych
Purchase, Barbara and Eugene Schwartz
Contemporary Art Acquisition Endowment Fund
B08.1132 (a–c) |
Isaac Julien, born UK 1960
Yishan Island, Mist (Ten Thousand Waves), 2010
Endura Ultra photograph
Purchase, West Coast Art Acquisitions Committee
of American Friends of the Israel Museum
B11.0155 |
Dana Levy, born Israel 1973
Silent Among Us, 2008
Video, 5 mins.
Purchase, "Here & Now" Contemporary Israeli Art Acquisitions Committee, Israel B11.0423
|
|
 |
![<div ><p><strong>Jonathan Monk,</strong> born UK 1969, active Berlin<br />
<em>Candle Film</em>, 2009<br />
Eight 16-mm films, each approx. 47 mins. (total 6:20 hours), unique<br />
Purchased through the gift of Marianna Sackler, New York, and David Sackler,<br />
New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum<br />
B11.0156<br />
<br />
Drawing on Conceptual Art of the 1960s and 1970s, Jonathan Monk explores such issues as being and identity in relation to time /and/ /or/ history, as well as the actual process of making art. Very little happens in Candle Film; as in Andy Warhol's ground-breaking Empire (1964), a static object is filmed as it changes slowly over time, in this case a period of more than six hours. Because Monk has chosen the technology of 16 mm film and a film projector, the reels must be changed on a regular basis – approximately once every hour – by a technician.
<br />
<br />
Monk says: 'I have made a lot of short films and some shorter films. And have wanted to make a long, long film for a while… [one] that dealt with its own duration…What could live and die within the process of making the film. What could change but remain the same. Something that is natural but not manipulated by nature. A candle seemed to be the perfect vehicle for my idea…It gives light when there is no light. It can be controlled. It lasts for as long as it lasts. And then dies. And darkness falls.'
</p>
</div>](images/thumbs/MonkJonathan.jpg) |
 |
Tony Matelli, born USA 1971
Abandon (Double dandelion), 2008
Hand-painted bronze
Purchase, West Coast Art Acquisitions Committee
of American Friends of the Israel Museum
B11.0881 |
Jonathan Monk, born UK 1969, active Berlin
Candle Film, 2009
Eight 16-mm films, each approx. 47 mins. (total 6:20 hours), unique
Purchased through the gift of Marianna Sackler, New York, and David Sackler,
New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum
B11.0156 |
Adrian Paci, born Albania 1969, active Milan
Per Speculum, 2006
35-mm film, 8 mins.
Purchased through the gift of Shawn and Peter Leibowitz, New York,
to American Friends of the Israel Museum
B08.1111 |
|
 |
 |
 |
Anila Rubiku, born Albania 1970, active Milan
Casa all'italiana - Superleggera, 2008
Perforated and sewn paper
Purchase, Barbara and Eugene Schwartz Contemporary Art Acquisition Endowment Fund and an anonymous donor, through Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
B10.0026 |
Yehudit Sasportas, born Israel 1969, active Berlin and Tel Aviv
GHARDY, local voices,2009
Multi-channel DVD projection, 5 mins.
Purchase, "Here & Now" Contemporary Israeli Art Acquisitions Committee, Israel
B10.0755 |
Hiraki Sawa, born Japan 1977, active London
Going Places Sitting Down, 2004
Three-channel video projection, 8:30 mins.
Purchase, Contemporary Art Acquisitions Committee of
American Friends of the Israel Museum, New York
B11.0190 |
|
 |
 |
 |
Nedko Solakov, born Bulgaria 1957
Good News, Bad News, 2010
Children's toys, glass, artificial flower and mixed media,
handwritten texts, twelve spotlights
Purchase, Contemporary Art Acquisitions Committee of
American Friends of the Israel Museum, New York
B10.0695
|
Jan Tichy, born Czechoslovakia 1974, active Tel Aviv and Chicago
Installation #6 (tubes), 2009
Video installation, 10 mins.
Television monitor, paper, glue, sandbags
Gift of the Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation, Allentown, PA,
to American Friends of the Israel Museum
B09.0746 |
Maya Zack, born Israel 1976
Living Room, 2009
Four Lambda digital prints
Purchase, "Here & Now" Contemporary Israeli Art Acquisitions Committee, Israel B11.0051
|
|
|