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