collection of modern art and contemporary art from Nevzlin collection
Modern Jewish Art
Exhibited here are works of art from distinctive historical moments spanning 100 years of innovative developments. On loan from the Leonid Nevzlin collection, these works present a long historical narrative through a kind of Jewish time capsule. This collection explores multiple facets of the Jewish experience while simultaneously illustrating how thought, ideology and art reached a turning point with Modernity. Enlightenment’s global utopia and burst of ideas engaged in a creative tension with personal heritage and individual artistic expression. The Jewish artists displayed here — all major personalities — played significant roles in both their specific contexts and in the fields of modern and contemporary art history.
The works presented in this collection convey a wide range of artistic and ideological concerns, including understanding the human being; grappling with memory, forms and subjects; radicalization and tradition; texts and ideas; fields of color and emotion; language and polyphony, pilpul practitioners and intellectual sharpness; poetics of the visual; life performances; displacement; migrations; diasporas and more.