The new Museum and the exhibitions

Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv

The architectural space designed by Preston Scott Cohen is simultaneously linear and multi-layered. A vertical "light fall" drains the building's vertical dimension, orientates the visitor, unites all spaces around it, and leads from one level to another. The building's exterior envelope, an extended "folding" surface that breaks at disparate-angled modules, is a dynamic ornament made of 430 polished cement panels. On view contemporary israeli photography, the architecture of the Museum's buildings throughout the years, German Expressionism: Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collection, works by Yaacov Kaufman.

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Herta and Paul Amir Building
Forty years after the architectural competition that preceded the construction of the present abode of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Museum announced, in 2002, a competition for the planning of a new building of about 19,000 m2, enabled by a donation from Herta and Paul Amir, Los Angeles.
Preston Scott Cohen's horizontal "radiator" model came a long way since its first presentation to the judges of the competition. The need to orchestrate programmatic necessities with the site brought Cohen to create an object combined of a complex array of spaces. The architectural space he made is simultaneously linear and multi-layered. A vertical "light fall" drains the building's vertical dimension, orientates the visitor, unites all spaces around it, leads from one level to another, and brings natural light to the building's lower level. The building's exterior envelope, an extended "folding" surface that breaks at disparate-angled modules, is a dynamic ornament made of 430 polished cement panels manufactured on location.
Prof. Preston Scott Cohen heads the Harvard University Graduate School of Architecture. His office deals with private and public buildings.

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MAKING ROOM: CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI PHOTOGRAPHY

Curator Nili Goren

New acquisitions reflecting a trend in contemporary photography dealing with places—landscapes, urban environment, domestic space—with a reference to the medium's modes of observation. The artists' approach to space ranges between direct photography, partial, explicit or hidden processing, and a photographic product of total simulation that at times mimics and refers to traditional-direct photography, and at others moves away to the fictional.

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FIVE MOMENTS: TRAJECTORIES IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE TEL AVIV MUSEUM

Guest Curators: Arch. Dr. Yasha J. Grobman, Arch. Arielle Blonder

The architecture of the Museum's buildings throughout the years, from Dizengoff's House on Rothschild Boulevard to the Herta and Paul Amir Building, is the focus of this experiential exhibition. Five key moments in the Museum's history are presented through five architectural prisms, providing two different and complementary viewpoints that turn these moments into a complete cultural continuum.

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YAACOV KAUFMAN: RUNNING IN CIRCLES

Curator Maya Vinitsky

Yaacov Kaufman has dealt with morphology throughout his works. The exhibition examines circles, rings and circumferences. Materiality, structure and mechanics are expressed through the hundreds of circles hanging on the walls. The process of searching and developing reflects an interim state, between the abstract and the feasible.

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UTOPIAS ON PAPER I
German Expressionism: Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collection

Curator Irith Hadar

This two-part exhibition presents a selection of works on paper by German Expressionists. The first part juxtaposes nature and the natural with the big city, icon of modern existence; the second will focus on Expressionism's built-in ambivalent approach to the concept of culture in the polarity between the high-brow and the popular and the tension between the authentic and the "cultural."

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FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
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ISRAELI ARTISTS ON A "SOCIAL NETWORK"

Curator Sara Raiman Shor

An interactive exhibition dealing with overt and covert links between portraits from the Museum's collection of Israeli art, exhibited in the Paul and Herta Amir Building, and portraits of contemporary Israeli artists. Children will experience various games and techniques as well as "connecting" to the artists' "social network" through a computer program.

Image: Interior, Herta and Paul Amir Building (photo: Amit Geron)

Recital in the Gallery
Ori Kam, viola. Two viola sonatas by Paul Hindemith. Free entrance.
Thursday, 1.12, 20:30

Press contact:
Muriel Goldstein Git +972 (0)3 6077030 muriel@tamuseum.com
Orit Aderet +972 (0)3 6077019 orita@tamuseum.com

Museum of Modern Art
27 Shaul Hamelech Blvd
Tel Aviv, 61332
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Tues, Thurs 10.00-22.00
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