Penny Hes Yassour
Temp-Est
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| Editor(s) | Hans-Jürgen Schwalm |
| Author(s) | Galia Bar Or, Hans-Jürgen Schwalm, Nimrod Reitmann |
| Design | Ute Lübbeke, Cologne |
| Size | 29,5 x 24 cm |
| Pages | 96 |
| Illustrations | 80 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| Language(s) | German, English |
| ISBN | 978-3-947563-48-7 |
A Monograph about the Award-Winning Israeli Artist
Penny Hes Yassour (b. 1950, lives and works at kibbutz En-Harod Ihud) tells stories and keeps history alive, explores the boundary between remembering and forgetting. In her installations she combines sound, image, and a multi-part world of objects into narrative mise-en-scènes of great poetic power. Hes Yassour leads the viewer through the Jordan Valley with its many watchtowers, accompanies the transformation of the landscape in a gigantic, stagelike water basin, and documents the flight of bats in a narrow, labyrinthine spatial installation. The book published on the occasion of the artist’s first exhibition in Germany provides comprehensive insights into her subtle artistic work.
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