Twenty years have passed since Michael Kovner’s father, Abba Kovner, died as he neared the age of seventy. It was then that Michael decided to create something he had never created before: a work that tells a personal story in pictures and words—the kind of work, however, that a painter produces: a painting, not comics. He did not imagine the metamorphosis of media genres that his creation would undergo and undergo again: from a book (2014) to a play (2015), a painting of a play (2015), a film (2016), and a comprehensive exhibition at Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, (2020), in conjunction with an exhibit at Bochum Art Museum, Germany (2019). Read more
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