Haifa Museum of Art
Anat Betzer paints morbid, desolate landscapes populated by thickets, snow-covered woods, or forest cabins. Betzer's "there" is "another place," a remote geography signifying demise. Her romantic-German landscapes seek the darkness and cold that can blot out the Israeli light and sun. They are filled with longing and melancholy, if not anxiety. These scenes evoke a wealth of contexts: on the one hand, a kingdom of European romanticism and Slavic legends; on the other, a world of forests reminiscent of Jewish history and the Holocaust.
Born in Ramat Gan, 1965; lives and works in Tel Aviv