Lot 167: Barry Frydlender b. 1954 , Bombamela chromogenic color print

chromogenic color print

measurements 11 3/4 by 82 3/4 in. alternate measurements 30 by 210 cm.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Barry Frydlender Down Here, 2007, pp. 154-155, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York

Executed in 2000.
PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT ARTIS - CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI ART FUND
Barry Frydlender is the first Israeli artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His works are assembled from dozens, or even hundreds of frames, accumulated over a period of minutes and sometimes even months. These detailed panoramas concentrate on life in the contemporary, everyday world surrounding the artist. The work offered here depicts Bombamela, a yearly alternative music festival for the young, which takes place on the beach in Israel extending for several days. Frydlender's photograph clearly conveys the relaxed atmosphere of young people united in their desire to escape everyday life and concentrate only on the joys of music, dance and the sea. "Frydlender's Israeli panorama includes Arab and Jew, Ashkenazim and Sephardim, religious and secular, rich and poor, ancient and modern, young and old. The equanimity with which he takes it all in is the hallmark of his art. A good deal of the most ambitious art of the past few decades has drawn its themes and its creative energy from the polemics of group identity. Frydlender's recent work is all the more remarkable against that background, for its attentiveness to each individual group is rooted in its recognition of their multiplicity." (Peter Galassi, Barry Frydlender: Place and Time (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007).

Donated by Andrea Meislin Gallery in conjunction with the artist.