Michael Sgan-Cohen Ron

Michael Sgan-Cohen’s (1944-1999) work and life are interwoven with all the intellectual centers and the fundamental contexts through which the map of Israeli culture has been drawn since the 1980s: Israeli and Jewish identity, text and image, figuration and abstraction, secularism and religiosity, Jerusalem and New York, the spirit of the time and the connection to biblical sources.
His painting style, which he began to develop in the mid-1970s, was expressive and rough, influenced by Pop Art. His works dealt with the study of Judaism and its relationship to visual imagery. Among other things, Sgan-Cohen frequently used textual imagery, both in an ars poetical sense—reflecting on the nature of visual creation—and in an ontological sense, as a reflective expression of the relationship with God.