Moshe Gershuni

Overall in good condition. There is craquelure to the white paint and a little on the yellow as well due to the mixed media the artist used. The paper is glued to the mount on edges.
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This work is inscribed in Hebrew with the verse from Psalms 104: 24 "O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all".

While discussing this series of works with the artist, Sarah Breitberg-Semel notes: "In some of your paintings or series the ironic use of the painting's upper section as a heavenly, divine area is quite conspicuous... The irony is especially obvious in the series In Wisdom Have You Made Them, where you 'measure' the Holocaust against divine wisdom. The series is based on the yellow star, in inverted form: a black Star of David on a yellow background, balancing like a tightrope walker in danger of falling into the abyss. This ironizes the biblical verse, it is a sarcastic reference to the wisdom of divine creation..." (Sarah Breitberg Semel,"A Conversation: The Invention of God / the Artist" in Gershuni, Selected Translations from the Hebrew Edition, exhibition catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2010, p. 27-28).