NAFTALI BEZEM

BORN: 1924 in Essen, Germany
RESIDES: Basel, Switzerland

Most Recent Exhibition:
Naftali Bezem: Miracles
6 December 2008 - 5 January 2009

In the Bible the most important experience was a miracle, in our time it is energy. What kind of energy do we need to have an idea? I think a color, a spot or a line and how they come together is a fusion of many ideas. That is what gives us pleasure, like in a play. This play of joy which is different and common for each visitor and which makes us all partners of creation. This could bring us closer again to a miracle.

Naftali Bezem
May 2008

Naftali Bezem
Victoire de Samotrace
Mixed Media on Paper
19 ¾ x 13 ¾"
NB93
NB93 Naftali Bezem
Negotiating Sodom
Mixed Media on Paper
26 x 18 ½"
NB43
NB43
Naftali Bezem
Prickly Landing
Mixed Media on a
Black & White Photograph
11 ½ x 17 ½"
NB100
NB100 Naftali Bezem
Boat-Tent
Mixed Media on a
Black & White Photograph
11 ¾ x 17 ½"
NB99
NB99
Naftali Bezem
First Steppe
Mixed Media on a
Black & White Photograph
11 ¾ x 17 ½"
NB98
NB98 Naftali Bezem
Guardian
Mixed Media on a
Black & White Photograph
11 ½ x 17"
NB97
NB97
Naftali Bezem
Holy Tent
Mixed Media on Paper
26 ½ x 20"
NB31
NB31 Naftali Bezem
Rock Landing
Mixed Media on Paper
19 ¾ x 29 ¾"
NB95
NB95
Naftali Bezem
Bridge in Basel
Mixed Media on Paper
14 x 21 ¼"
NB94
NB94 Naftali Bezem
A River in Basel
Mixed Media on Paper
14 ¾ x 21 ¾"
NB91
NB91