Moi Ver: A Forgotten Genius

At the height of 20th Century modernism and one of the followers of Moholy Nagy and his concept of New Vision, Moi Ver, alias Moshe Vorobeichic (1904-1995), was one of the shooting stars in European photography. As a contemporary of artists such as Man Ray, Ilse Bing, Hanna Höch, André Kertész, Brassaï, Germaine Krull or Dora Maar, who were all active in Paris at the same time and like many of them Moi Ver’s photographic vision was a combination of painting and camera practice that yielded radical images. Moi Ver’s work is a perfect example of the modernist movement of the early 20th century and reflects the social, cultural and artistic changes that were taking place at the time.
Born in Lithuania, 1904-1995

 
Changing Perspectives
The present cluster of exhibitions seeks to view the issue of the relation to "place" in Israeli art. What is the effect of the presence of the artist here in Israel or his absence from it, on the representation of the "Israeli place", of the "here and now? The artistic oeuvre presented in the exhibitions express the tension between an artistic practice that is activist and socio-politically oriented, and one that seeks the realms of dream and fantasy. It seems that the further away an artist is from the pit of the volcano, the more it sparks his interest, and the closer he is, the more urgent is his need to escape.