Gideon Rubin was a guest of the Outset Bialik Residency in 2014, resulting in the solo exhibition ‘Memory goes as far as this morning’ at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in 2015.
The exhibition featured two comprehensive series of works painted in 2014 on newspaper and magazine pages. These works were created over the course of two artist residencies, in Israel (Outset’s Bialik Residency) and in China. It seems that the time the artist spent on Bialik Street in Tel Aviv, in the vicinity of the house once inhabited by his grandfather, the painter Reuven Rubin, awakened in Rubin the impulse to embark on an “exploratory expedition” to study a new place, rather than on a journey back to his familiar roots. Although the theme of roots and belonging is felt, to a certain degree, in both places where he chose to temporarily work, Rubin examined Tel Aviv as a lingering tourist, or perhaps as a cultural explorer attempting to trace some general internal code, rather than his own familial or personal story.
ON VIEW: 30th May – 15th August 2015
Gideon Rubin (b.1973) is an Israeli artist based in London. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and MFA from the Slade School of Art in London.
Donation: Gideon Rubin’s work ‘Gaz Mask‘ was donated to the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art by the artist and Outset Contemporary Art Fund.
