Michael Halak: Faces And Landscapes
Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, 2011
The exhibition focuses on Michael Halak's series of portraits and landscape paintings, which are charged with the tension between presence and absence, between identification and non-identification, between testimony and silencing, between memory and forgetfulness. Halak's paintings, with their disturbing images of destruction, deletion, dismantling and damage, subvert the realistic style that seeks to capture an image of a whole, identical reality.