Lot 146: q - GILAD OPHIR B.1957

signed, dated 2003 and numbered 1/5 on the back of the frame

digital color print

executed in 2003, this work is number 1 from an edition of 5

46 7/8 by 58 in.<br><br>119 by 147 cm.

Tel Aviv, Artist's Studios, Gilad Ophir Irreducible, 2004, p. 35, (a smaller version of this photograph is illustrated in color in the exhibition catalogue)

Discussing Ophir's earlier works, Amy Capellazzo notes: "Gilad Ophir is master of the ordinary..., there is neither a trace of human presence, nor evidence of any history in his photographs... Ophir's work is about how the familiar in Israeli culture is now shifting, particularly with Israel's newfound economic prosperity. These photographs make it clear that today it is difficult for Israelis to hide behind the modesty of the socialist/Zionist ethos when American-style consumerism abounds. The wants of the middle-class, home ownership and social status lurks in the quietest places." (Amy Cappellazzo quoted in Desert Cliché: Israel Now - Local Image, Arad Museum, Arad; Museum of Art, Ein Harod; Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya; Bass Museum of Art, Miami; Grey Art Gallery & Study Center of New York University (exhibition catalogue), 1996-1997, page 23).