The Andrea Meislin Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of 14 large-scale color photographs by Israeli artist Barry Frydlender. These images of Israel are seamlessly constructed digital composites of different photographs taken of the same scene any number of times.

“Frydlender’s most recent images presented in this exhibition change in a certain sense the very definition of photographic vision and extend the possibilities of the medium. They are the antithesis of the ‘cyclopean’ vision of conventional photography as they capture a series of limited images with bits of information, and assemble them in one large cinemascopic frame: the result of a meticulous work of assemblage, a synthesis of events and moments in time. The wealth of detail and lore require on behalf of the viewer a patient visual deciphering of the elements, and invite him to participate in a discovery journey, as most of the elements are beyond the limits of normal human perception.” (Nissan N. Perez, Horace and Grace Goldsmith Senior Curator of Photography, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)

Barry Frydlender’s work has been collected by such major museums as the National Collection of Contemporary Art (FNAC) Paris, the Jewish Museum, and the Israel Museum, as well private collections including the Arts Council UK, Annie Lennox, and the Phoenix Collection. He has been exhibited at the Jewish Museum, Passage de Retz (Paris), Museum Haus Lange-Krefeld (Bonn), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain (Sete, France), and the 1994 International Biennale of Sao Paolo, Brazil among others. In 2001 he received the Leon Constantiner Award for Photography at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.