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And There Was Evening And There Was Morning, One Day

The exhibition presents 159 photos, all new, in various formats, taken since 2007 in various places around the world—Tel Aviv, Berlin, Cologne, Havana, Paris, Brussels, Rome, Beijing, Stockholm—in the course of daily life. The photos—of landscapes, buildings, spaces, objects, people—tell a story of being in front of a thing, the fundamental things that form the infrastructure of human environment. They are precise and thoughtful, articulated in pictorial, emotional and classical formal language; their accumulation creates a general conceptual model of a life story and a world, time–space relations constructed by light and revealing a personal and sensual touch with elements of nature and culture. Yossi Breger (b. France, 1960), recipient of the 1996 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, is a senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design MFA Program and Department of Photography, which he headed during 2000–2006. This exhibition was curated for the museum after two years of extensive conversations with the artist Yossi Breger. It was designed as a major exhibition and retrospective of Breger’s work and the selection process was a joint effort between artist and curator. Breger is important not only as a photographer and artist in his own right but for his work as Professor of Photography in Bezalel, where he fostered a distinctive and influential generation of Israeli photographers.