E19 room, while splashes of red paint peek through here and there from books or screens that are scattered everywhere. The sense of chaos and loss of control is made tangible through every aspect of this pictorial expression. Tsibi Geva's painting series After the Party refers to the Nova music festival massacre. The deep emotions arising from Picasso's ground-breaking painting seem to reconnect here to the pictorial elements of chaos. It is as if a loud and terrifying scream emanates from within the field of the entire painting. The physical terror can be felt through the twisting lines and dense color spots—these can be experienced as oppressive, grappling and threatening all at once. Similarly to Guernica, while engaging with this painting, viewers may lose their orientation: The world turns upside down, the earth is uprooted, and bodily fluids depicted in red and yellow flow and drip throughout. The paintings in the series maintain an explosive power, with images that appear like steel cuts Aviv Grinberg, A Moment in Hell, 2023. felt-tip pens on paper, 30 x 20 cm
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