The municipality of Rehovot and the municipal society invite you to the opening of the exhibition ‘Tselamo’ in Beit Michal, Wednesday, 4.1.23. The documentary film ‘The Artist’s Daughter’ will also be screened at the event, which won the Ofir, DokuAviv and Documentary Forum awards for debut films. After the screening, there will be a conversation with the creators.
About the exhibition ‘In his image’
From the beginning of the work of the painter Vladimir Lenski in Riga, Latvia, through his immigration to Israel and the discovery of the Israeli light and landscape, and together with his approach to religion, his uncompromising observation of the image of man occupies a central place in his work. His self-portraits are characterized by their intense colors and the emphasized materiality of the layers of paint that are placed on the canvas with momentum and emotional sincerity and allow us to follow his spiritual and stylistic development. From secularism to Jewish tradition and belief, from a closed line and a dark and restrained color range to bright, free and spontaneous color spots, and from a direct and immature barrier to compositions that carry psychological depth and a symbolic and cultural charge.
The paintings in this exhibition, by painter Amit Kabasa, appear in Margarita Viniv Linton’s film ‘The Artist’s Daughter’ and are accessible for viewing in their own right for the first time. Their presentation as a sequel to the film expands the question of who the artist is and how his absence is represented, when out of the new context emerges a third, imagined character, who relies on biographical foundations and a cinematic role, but in addition receives his own fictitious life in the field of art.
In this respect, all the works in the exhibition are uniquely positioned within a tradition of art created by an artist with a false identity. Pretending as an artistic act is the one that enables not only the revealing of the complex truth of the presence of the father’s absence, but also the growth of the hybrid character “Lansky”, into which various pieces of identity have been poured.
about the movie ‘The Artist’s Daughter’
After years of estrangement, Margarita Linton tries to get in touch with her artist father, whose large exhibition of paintings is on display in the Tel Aviv Museum, and in the process dismantles and reassembles the story of her relationship with him.
After the screening, Dr. Yael Shankar will talk with the Lintons and the artist Amit Kabasa about the process of making the film and the formation of their joint work, about the presence and absence of life in the cinematic representation and in art, and about the process of interweaving and priming the story within the documentary genre.
The film ‘The Artist’s Daughter’ (Israel, 60 min., Hebrew with English translation) won the Ophir Award for the short documentary film for 2022, the Debut Film Award at the Doc Aviv Festival, and the Documentary Forum Debut Film Award. Margarita Linton is a director, editor, screenwriter and lecturer. ‘The Artist’s Daughter’ is her third film. Yaniv Linton is a director, photographer and film lecturer at the Sam Spiegel School. Winner of the Hong Kong Film Festival 2013 photography award, and the films he shot were screened at festivals around the world and won many awards.
Amit Kabasa is an artist who presented solo exhibitions at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2017) and group exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Mishkan for the Arts in Ein Harod, the Ashdod Museum of Art, the Nachum Gutman Museum of Art, the Scala Mata, Venice, and the Dima Gallery, Paris, and more.
Dr. Yael Shankar teaches, writes and researches cinema, culture and literature. She is a faculty member of the Department of Sound and Screen Arts at Sapir College, and has a regular column on cinema in ‘Portfolio’ magazine.
The schedule for the opening event of the exhibition on January 4, 2023:
At 19:00 the opening of the exhibition.
At 20:00 the screening of the film ‘The Artist’s Daughter’.
At 21:00 a conversation with the filmmakers Margarita and Viniv Linton and with the artist Amit Kabasa, moderated by Dr. Yael Shankar.
Location:
Beit Michal, 10 Hagra St. Rehovot, 08-9467998
Ticket cost: NIS 40 [מספר המקומות בהקרנה ובשיחה מוגבל, יש לתאם הגעה מראש]
Another screening of the film will take place on Wednesday, 1.2.23, at 20:30
Opening hours of the exhibition:
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 16:00-19:00
Monday, Wednesday 9:00-12:00
Closing date of the exhibition:
Wednesday, 15.2.22.
Arrival by appointment: 08-9467998 | [email protected]
To purchase tickets for the event: https://bit.ly/3WZpNsY
For more details, go to the event page on the Beit Michal website: https://bit.ly/3i65bka
Entry to the exhibition is free