Lot 140: q - GILAD OPHIR B.1957

signed in Hebrew and dated 2000; signed and dated again and titled in Hebrew on the back of the frame

gelatin silver print

Executed in 2000, this work is number 1 from the edition of 3

38 5/8 by 47 1/4 in.<br><br>98 by 120 cm.

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, ISRAEL

This work was executed in preparation for the Necropolis exhibition at Noga Gallery in Tel Aviv in 2000. The photograph offered here is a reduced detail of the entire work exhibited on the gallery wall, which measured 240 by 600 cm. The exhibition concluded the collaboration of Gilad Ophir and Roi Kuper. It was also the last exhibitionof this project, although individual works from it continue to be exhibited in Israel and abroad, including the exhibition "Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on", opening in March 2005 for ArtIs, at The Chelsea Museum of Art, New York.