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New Exhibition at the Beit Avi Chai Gallery:
“You Must Choose Life – That is Art”
Pinchas Litvinovsky
One of the founding fathers of Israeli art, the national portrait painter most of whose estate was destroyed in an affair that shocked the art world, amazes with the artistic versatility of his works ranging from the realistic to the abstract and from the religious to the sensual
Curator: Amichai Chasson | Assistant Curator: Rika Grinfeld Barnea
Beit Avi Chai presents the exhibition “You Must Choose life – That is Art” which includes dozens of selected works from the estate of the Israel Prize for Painting winning artist Pinchas Litvinovsky, one of the founding fathers of Israeli art and a prolific Jerusalem painter, whose works are seeing the light of day for the first time in 30 years. The extensive exhibition that will be spread over the three floors of Beit Avi Chai showcases the varied styles Litvinovsky worked with – from the enchanted orientalism, through Jewish themes and portraits of various elected officials to abstract and diverse color works.
Litvinovsky was not part of any artistic group, rarely exhibited his works and never dated or named them. Apart from portraiture, he usually avoided selling his pieces. After his death, the painter’s estate numbered over 6,000 works, held in his studio in Jerusalem. However, the estate encountered various hardships over the years which culminated in a terrible destruction by the painter’s grandson, that reduced the thousands of works to only a few hundred. The exhibition “You Must Choose Life – That is Art” aims to highlight the best of the remaining pieces, showcasing various playful, both sensual and spiritual artistic facets of Pinchas Litvinovsky’s legacy.
The exhibition will feature an interactive stand “Make yourself a Litvinovsky AI portrait”, offering visitors the opportunity to create their Litvinovsky-style portrait using AI (Design: Alon Chitayat, software development: Avinoam Cooper).
Exhibition opening hours:
Sun, Tue, Wed, Thur – 10am to 6pm
Mondays – 10am to 10pm
Fridays – 9am to 1pm
Additionally, free audio tours will be offered in English, Hebrew and Russian as well as interactive workshops for the whole family:
Exhibition Design: Lisa Blechman | Graphic Design: Sonja Olitsky | Production: Shachar Montlake
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