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Zvi Lachman at Mishkan Museum of Art Ein Harod

Zvi Lachman’s sculpture What Haven’t We Seen? emerged and came into being while working on the present exhibition. It may be seen as a sculptural statement both about observing nature and exploring art traditions, but above all it offers a perspective from which the experience of the "here and now" is both viewed and veiled. At the core of the work is Lachman’s preoccupation with representing the human figure, manifested in the dynamics among figures engaged in interpersonal drama and existential crisis. Whether the characters are refugees or migrants, individuals or groups, they are characterized by movement in space and time – passion (in the Christian sense of suffering, death, and compassion), survival, and collapse. This movement is given form by combining sculptural figures of various dimensions and perspectives. Placing the figures in opposite directions, with their backs to each other, heightens the insight that the viewers can see only part of reality, and are constricted by their blind spots. At the same time, the figures depicted are led by a blind figure – on what may be understood as an aimless, absurd journey, without a sighted leader. In this work (as in some of the paper works on view in the exhibition), Lachman is alluding to Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s enigmatic painting, Parable of the Blind (1568), which illustrates the absurdity of a blind man leading the blind. The work also bears traces of sculptural traditions of the ancient East (Assyria, Egypt) and West (Greece). It is also notable for its gender shift, since its central figures, both individually and in the three group statues, are female. Posing universal questions about our ability to see reality clearly, these works are made highly topical by the contemporary Israeli reality from which they have sprung. The work was developed specifically for the current exhibition space. Each of its six parts was produced separately – first sculpted in wax, then cast in bronze, then linked together as an articulated chain leading up to The Last Witness. Curator: Yaniv Shapira Read more

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