Bracha L. Ettinger and Gilad Ratman will participate to the exhibition Material Imagination: Israeli Art from the Museum’s Collection opening on Thrusday, February 17 at Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

The exhibition, conceived as new permanent display of the Israeli art collection, departs from the story of Israeli art as a chronological narrative running parallel to the national story. Material Imagination is a model of thinking conceived by philosopher Gaston Bachelard during years of delving into the four elements—earth, air, water, and fire—and their incarnations in the imagination and in art. The material imagination thrives in the dialogue between the materials of the world and archaic images—archetypes accumulated and etched in human consciousness.

The exhibition, curated by Dalit Matatyahu, will include more than 120 works by leading artists.

More information is available at this link.

Image: Gilad Ratman, Che Che The Gorgeous, 2005, still from video