Tel Aviv–born Moshe Ninio is a multidisciplinary artist. Solo exhibitions of his work include the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (1998), the Mary Fauzi Gallery, Jaffa (2000), and the Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris (2001). He has also been featured in group exhibitions at Time for Art, Tel Aviv (2002), Art Focus, Jerusalem (2003), and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008). He received Israel’s Ministry of Education and Culture Prize for Plastic Arts (1997).
Ninio’s art focuses on putting everyday objects into new contexts, which change their original functions, posing questions about the nature of their reality, by opening them up to new relationships…
This magnificent maḥzor (holiday prayer book) was copied—and most likely decorated—by the scribe Isaac bar Mordechai ha-Kohen (Isaac Lankosh of Kraków). (In several places, the name “Isaac” has…
Sailor with Guitar is one of Jacques Lipchitz’s early cubist sculptures, an experiment in translating painterly cubist concepts into three dimensions. The figure of the sailor was inspired by sailors…