J. Porat - Conversations with Kafka - The 54 works

Video-Version B of the exhibition-works:

"The paintings are a splendid aesthetic expression of a world of nightmares, of frightful dreams becoming concrete, of the encounter between madness and nightmare and the logical, sane, and clear. They manifest arts exclusive ability to unify conflicts and contradictions, to express lunacy by aesthetic means, and to concurrently depict contradictory situations: terror and beauty, colorful loneliness, styled nightmare, terrestrial hovering, and life growing out of death.
This exhibition is yet another brick in the glorious buildings of paintings inspired by literature and juxtaposing these two realms of art. It is an interpretive, principle confrontation between the worlds of literature and painting, and between the worlds of Kafka and Jacob Porat. However, more than anything else, it is a confrontation with the world of the readers-viewers their way of deciphering Kafka's works on the background of Prague and their comprehension of Kafka paintings by Jacob Porat". [Prof. Nurit Govrin, Tel Aviv University]

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• Kafka
• exhibition
• Prague
• Porat
• Minsk
• Wyszkow
• Krakow
• Lodz
• Polna
• Warsaw
• Goethe Institute