David Reeb B.1952

Purchased directly from the artist by the present owner in 1989-1990.

Politics and social commentary are crucial to the understanding of David Reeb's work. Both concerns are prevalent in  Camel/Time which at a first glance isolates and repeats symbols of  two popular cigarette brands in Israel - Camel and Time . 'This configuration of motifs juxtaposes a local brand of cigarettes, with its English brand name which is also the title of the well-known weekly news magazine and an American brand which uses as its logo an animal expressly identified with this region, thus creating a paradoxical situation in which the local item appears to be western, and the western one, eastern. For Reeb, the camel motif also carries with it artistic connotations connected to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.' (Michael Levin, 'The State of the Arts: Visual Arts in Israel, 1998' in  The Israel Review of Arts and Letters , Vol. 1995/99, no.100, www.mfa.gov.il)