This Painter Is the Purest Voice in Israeli Art

Yudith Levin is the purest and truest voice in Israeli art, and yet hers is a humble and self-questioning voice, never arrogant, vulnerable but powerful and, in her own way, brave – and all that is in addition to her rare skill in the plastic arts. Her voice is also very local (Levin lives and creates in Moshav Ein Vered, where  she was born in 1949), and incomparably sensitive to the world around her, with all its flaws and beauty.

 

The curating of her current exhibit, “Really and Truly,” at Tel Aviv’s Dvir Gallery, is of an ascetic nature, forging various connections in an industrial space, leaving welcome breathing space around each work – and it’s also quite surprising: Levin’s paintings hang side by side, at times one above the other, as in the artist’s studio when she tries to take stock of what she’s created in a given time frame.

 

It’s evident that curator Dvir Intrator has taken certain liberties this time and accommodated Levin’s desire to display as much as possible, even in violation of proper curatorial etiquette. Perhaps so as to present a partial summary of her work in the past few decades; perhaps as a reflection on the life the paintings will have after she’s gone. The works, being shown here for the first time, are missing pieces from Levin’s well-known series.

 

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