I invite you to a gallery talk at my solo exhibition Land of Painting. Exhibition curator Yaniv Shapira and I will discuss multiple viewpoints on the landscape, as well as the interplay between figure and landscape and between landscape and text that occurs in the paintings.

Invitation with details, and with image of hands on banister with urban and natural landscape.

The meeting is also an opportunity to launch the exhibition catalogue, designed by Magen Halutz. and including articles by curator Yaniv Shapira and biblical scholar Diana Lipton, a foreword by Said Abu Shakra, and a text by the artist.

Catalogue cover with foot resting on earth filled with pebbles and flowers.

“Amid the myriad of voices, artistic languages and references to landscape in Israeli painting, Kestenbaum Ben-Dov’s work marks a unique pathway, rooted in a personal and psychological journey. Her painterly movement oscillates between two modes of observation – inward and outward, between nature’s vitality and inner questions.”

Yaniv Shapira, from the exhibition text and catalogue

A view of the exhibition, with 16 small landscapes on one wall, behind which a diptych of landscape.

Exhibition view