By David Sperber | Tweet 53 Arik Weiss, Ye Shall Cleave, 2008,  photograph, detail Adherence and yearning Photographs showing what looks like a mummy or golem wrapped all around in white masking tape (fig. 55), and a photograph of a hand similarly wrapped with the same white tape, reminiscent of phylactery thongs (fig. p. 53), […]

By David Sperber | Tweet 27 Ken Goldman, Torah Mantle, 2006, mixed media Well-versed yet subversive It is interesting to observe how the “Judaica Twist” draws contemporary Jewish art closer to themes and patterns of thought already familiar to us from modern Jewish literature, cinema and theater. Scholars have pointed out that modern Jewish creativity […]

By David Sperber | Tweet 38 Dov Abramson, Ner Mitzvah, 2003, digital print on paper 613 Candles In this same spirit, the three artists whose work is displayed in the Zimmun exhibition were trained as graphic artists or industrial designers, yet are active on the art scene. For a long time, graphic design was perceived […]