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Dimensions: 90 x 68 cm
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Among the region's earliest artist-run-initiatives
This is a proclamation of faith and the interconnectedness of the material
Yosl Bergner 'Desert Angels, from The Kimberley Album' black & white Dimensions: 90 x 68 cmThe 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
