"Hitha'vut, Yesh Me-ayin, Yesh Me-yesh" (Formation: Matter from Nothing, Matter from Matter) is Anastasia Ben Ya'akov's current exhibition on display at the Jerusalem Artists House. Rut Apter Gavriel is the curator. In her works, Ben-Yaakov holds a continuing dialoge with renaissance artists, incluing Franscesca and Vermir. While she is open about the renaissance influence in her works, she switches the persona in the painting to her own likeness or to those of her close family. In this way she blends between past and present, as the dialogue of form also attains an aspect of interaction in time.
Ben Ya'akov's works are the result of complex artistic thinking. Subjects such as the divine presence, which is represented in her paintings by letters and words from the Hebrew prayers, well known renaissance iconography, the artist and her close family, her relationship with nature, the stillness in nature and the landscape--these all serve to inspire in her paintings a multi layered and enigmatic reality, which relates at once to the graspable and the hidden.
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