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ISRAEL HERSHBERG - IMAGO
Announcing my upcoming solo exhibition IMAGO. Galeria Plan B, Strausberger Pl. 1, 10243 Berlin. Opening on September 13, 2023. The show, a retrospective of some 20 + paintings spanning the last 4 decades, will also include drawings and photographs. https://www.plan-b.ro/. Hoping to see some of you at the opening.
JSS IN CIVITA - FALL 2023
JSS in Civita Master Class Residency & Guided Residency in legendary Civita Castellana. Master Class - October 16 - 30 and Guided Residency October 30 - 2023 November 13. 2023 Master Class Guest of Honor is Diana Horowitz. To apply for this immersive study opportunity please visit the the school's website or send an email to jsscivita@icloud.com.
NO SURVEY OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN THE 21ST CENTURY WOULD BE COMPLETE WITHOUT THE WORK OF ISRAEL HERSHBERG
Israel Hershberg is featured alongside other leading contemporary artists including: Antonio Lopez Garcia, Wayne Thiebaud, Alex Katz, Rackstraw Downes, Cecily Brown, Lois Dodd, David Hockney, Anslem Kiefer, Luc Tuymans, Richard Estes, Peter Doig, Neo Rauch, Mark Tansey and others.
From D.A.P. / Thames & Hudson
LANDSCAPE PAINTING NOW
From Pop Abstraction to the New Romanticism
SOLO EXHIBITION 2016: ISRAEL HERSHBERG - PAINTINGS DRAWINGS & PHOTOGRAPHS
November 16th - December 30th, 2016, at the Marlborough Gallery, 40 West 57th Street,
SOLO EXHIBITION 2012
The Israel Museum - Fields of Vision : Landscapes by Israel Hershberg
Opening Reception: December 18th, 2012 at 6:30 PM
December 4, 2012-February 4, 2013
Israel's leading realist painter Israel Hershberg takes a long, hard, and unrelenting look at his subject, be it a still life, a portrait, a nude figure, or a landscape. For years he meticulously depicted isolated objects, capturing the effects of light and of time on their mutable surfaces, leaving no detail of texture or composition untended. Over the past decade, Hershberg has turned his gaze on vast open landscapes, each canvas the result of a couple of years of painstaking work. Three such landscapes are presented here: two views from Umbria in Italy and one of Tel Kakun in Israel’s Hefer Valley. Also exhibited is a small study for his planned fourth large-scale landscape.
ישראל הרשברג, גדול ציירי הראליזם בישראל, מתבונן במושא הציור שלו - טבע דומם, דיוקן, עירום אך גם נוף רחב ופתוח - במבט מפוכח, מדוקדק ובלתי מתפשר. אם במשך שנים הוא התמקד באובייקט אחד ותיאר אותו, את מרקמו, את האור המוטל עליו ואת פגעי הזמן הניכרים בו בקומפוזיציה מתוכננת היטב, הרי שבעשור האחרון הוא החל לצייר באותו אופן נופים גדולים וטרח על כל ציור כשנתיים עד שהביאו לכלל סיום. בתצוגה מוצגים שלושת הציורים שיצר בעשור האחרון – שניים מהם צוירו באיטליה, בחבל אומבריה, ואחד בתל קאקון שבעמק חפר – וציור-הכנה אחד המבשר את הציור הגדול הבא שלו.
Amitai Mendelsohn, Curator
SOLO EXHIBITION: ISRAEL HERSHBERG - FROM AFAR
Marlborough Chelsea - September 10th – October 10th, 2009
Israel Hershberg’s recent exhibition, “From Afar”, at Marlborough Chelsea consists of ten works executed during the years 2003 - 2009 in Umbria, Italy and Israel. All the landscapes in this show deal with great distances on a number of levels, hence the subtitle From Afar. Afar also has additional meaning: In Hebrew it quite literally is dust. As Hershberg notes, “All that dust (afar) in the aria hangs over everything, defining a seemingly endless nothingness into a measured and felt diaphanous volume of ether that starts where the eye begins to see.