‘No Father No Mother‘ was the first comprehensive solo exhibition of Moshe Gershuni, at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin dedicated to an Israeli artist. It was also Gershuni’s first significant solo exhibition in an European museum for more than thirty years. The title of the exhibition ‘No Father No Mother’ is comprised of two negations. Taken from a painting (No Father No Mother, 1998), it delivers a confession, a negative reflection of rootlessness and discontinuity. Extensive yet open, the exhibition evaded evolutionary, retrospective arrangements, periodical divisions and chronological orders, relating to Gershuni’s oeuvre as a vital, nonhierarchical entity, an ongoing activity.
Moshe Gershuni’s work Terrific Soldier was donated to the Verein Der Freunde der Nationalgalerie by the artists, Givon Art Gallery and Outset Contemporary Art Fund.
ON VIEW: 13th September – 31st December 2014
Moshe Gershuni (1936-2017) was one of the most significant contemporary Israeli artists. His existential oeuvre – a continuous project of more than forty years – is uncompromising, and his prolific production of paintings, drawings, and sculptures is extremely evocative. Both sensual and conceptual, emotional and critical, authentic and well-staged, Gershuni’s works transcend oppositions, infusing historical commemoration with the cathartic immediacy of the painterly act.
