TRAVELING EXHIBITION BY ACCLAIMED ISRAELI ARTIST M. MESHULAM TO OPEN AT GALLERY 444, IN MARCH 2004

NEW YORK NY - M. Meshulam - The Borderline will open at 444 Madison ave. (corner of 50^th st.) on March 25. The exhibition will be on view at the Gallery 444 through April 8, 2004.

M. Meshulam created a wholly different perspective in the way that he chose to express an objective global human reaction to the profound fear and loss from the September 11, 2001 attacks. This genius and imagination for the body of work The Borderline was conceptualized in Tel Aviv.

The Exhibition is a Private Memorial, which reflects the artist’s technique of symbolism and metaphor. This is the first time Meshulam has chosen to use a documented image to express the emotional resonance that the attacks branded in his mind.

For Meshulam, this horror has erased the boundary between New York City and Tel Aviv, drawing the connection from his terror-struck reality and his military experience to what was until then, the perceived notion of America as a “safe land”.

The painting ”Cowboy”, for instance, symbolizes the awakening of America, following 9/11. The “holy cow” of American economic strength was shattered as the Western hero is portrayed as the victim.

The artist’s conflicted experience of war and his religious upbringing inspired many of his earlier works. M. Meshulam : The Borderline is remarkably different from his earlier Movement exhibition, which is a pensive expression of physical, psychological, and extra terrestrial subject matter.

M. Meshulam : The Borderline is the artist's first exhibition in the United States and is dedicated to the people of New York City.