Yossi Breger: And there was evening. And there was morning, one day

Yossi Breger’s photo exhibition, despite its alluring title that promises a wealth of imagery that would illustrate our daily lives, does not meet up with our expectations. True, he has ‘created’ a widely diverse range of images, large and small: 159 photos of landscapes and buildings, spaces, objects and people, all photographed in recent years in various places around the world. But in the main, the formality of his style fails to rustle up intellectual or emotional enthusiasm in the heart or mind of the viewer.

 

This is not to say that Breger lacks the skills to photograph in any style he chooses. A senior lecturer of photography in Bezalel’s MFA Fine Arts program, a past exhibitor at the Venice Art Biennale, and recipient of the 1997 Gottesdiener Foundation Art Prize (at a time when he was producing text paintings), his talents are abundantly clear. If confirmation was needed one has only to look at his still life studies on exhibit: a pear on a plate, a bunch of fennel; a heap of potatoes laid on newspaper – photographs that possess all the delicacy and clarity of a Morandi painting.

 

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