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richly textured surfaces
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‘Hornby’ is an ode to a bygone time
Dimensions: 91 x 71 x 3 cm
as well as our memories of being young and entranced by the simple delights of ordinary life
Yosl Bergner 'Desert Angels, from The Kimberley Album' black & white richly textured surfacesThe story behind this work is stranger than fiction. It begins in 1933 when Yiddish poet, playwright, essayist and activist Melech Ravitch (a pseudonym for Zekharye Khone Bergner) left Europe in search of a new home for Europes increasingly threatened Jewish population. He arrived in Australia with the fantasy that among the Kimberleys lied the Promised Land for his people. Decades later his son, the acclaimed artist Yosl Bergner, memorialised this
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