The Art of Maty Grunberg

The London based Israeli artist Maty Grunberg returns to NY with an overdue retrospective show covering four decades of his work:

Maty Grünberg, Selected Works 1966-2006

On View

March 7 – June 22, 2006

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Included is a new environmental installation of panels printed from enlarged woodcuts in startling black and white that reveal Grünberg’s formidable vision of this magical but chronically contentious city: the indigenous, venomous and benign wildlife from the coastal plain and the desert meet in Jerusalem at the height of the watershed line to be in turn predator or prey; insects, animals and birds such the poisonous locust, jackal, swallowtail butterfly, possum, scorpion, sparrow and preying mantis are portrayed as towering over Jerusalem’s famous landmark buildings.

His early Paper Erosion dimensional works skillfully layer evocations of underwater and desert landscapes with opposing colors and geometrical forms.

“Black-Grey-White” (1978), a installation consisting of 21 parts, explores specific physical acts on the paper “from a dot to a complex”, and the relationship between “all colour” and “non-colour”.

“The Blue Mountain, Surface and Volume“, a dimensional construction paper erosion, 1981 “Blue Mountain Volume and Surface” (1981), a large work in six parts, deals with relationships among depths, heights, light, shadow and color.

Grünberg’s work derives from ancestral and personal memory; his response to the gravitational pull of Jerusalem, Negev Desert and Red Sea; the enduring freshness of Biblical stories and his fascination for geometrical shapes and the manipulation of the power of opposites.

A retrospective catalogue covers 40 years of the distinctive work of this London based Israeli artist and sculptor.

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Location

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum The Brookdale Center One West 4th Street New York 10012-1186 (Broadway and Mercer)

Hours

Monday-Thursday, 9am-5pm
Friday, 9am-3pm
Select Saturdays, 10am-2pm (call for Saturday openings)

Admission

Photo ID required; Information: 212 824 2205

Contact

Rachel Litcofsky, 212-824-2205; rlitcofsky@huc.edu for information