Ori gersht biography of george washington
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Group Exhibitions
2024
Human/Nature: Encountering Ourselves in the Natural World
Fotographista — The Contemporary Museum of Photography Art & Culture, New York
The Shape of Things — Still Life in Britain
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England
Bloom Exhibition: Paleis Het Loo
Apeldoorn, Holland
2023
Fotografihuset, Oslo
All the Whisperings of the World Exhibition
Fotographista, Sweden
In Bloom Exhibition
Princeton University - Art About Art:
Contemporary Photographers look at Old Master Paintings
2022
From Still Life to Food Porn
Museum Brot und Kunst, Forum Welternährung
Ulm, Germany
Delicious - A Feast for the Eyes, Gallery Zink,
Munich, Germany
Perspectives - Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art
George Eastman Museum, New York
Revenge, History, Fantasy - Jewish Museum
Frankfurt, Germany
2021
Contemporary Photography Moment in U.K:
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©Ori Gersht, Flower 01 (Rijksmuseum), 2021. Archival pigment print, 46 1/2 x 35 inches
A juxtaposition of beauty, violence, history, and poeticism defines Ori Gersht’s still life work. Gersht finds inspiration from the contradictory nature of the art museum: curated spaces which, according to him, are an attempt to present an ordered narrative from fragments taken from their original contexts. As an aspiring art historian myself, Gersht’s work is especially meaningful; one could easily find his featured icons in the halls of a 16th – 18th Century Northern European Painting exhibit: a shadowy floral arrangement, a banquet scene, traditional portraitsof 17th century noblemen. Using metaphors of history through imagery evoking Netherlandish masters, Gersht turns the still life genre on its head with his shocking images of these meticulously staged objects hit with high velocity gunfire. Born in Tel Aviv, Gersht’s work is both uniquely technologically striking and a deeply personal
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