Yosl Bergner 'From Alice Springs to the Kimberleys, from The Kimberley Album' black & white a keen attention to the

a keen attention to the moments of sweetness that make it worthwhile

rhythm and tonal subtlety

Dimensions: 820 x 112 cm

Namibia ' 2011

For Rankin

Yosl Bergner 'From Alice Springs to the Kimberleys, from The Kimberley Album' black & white a keen attention to theThe story behind this work is stranger than fiction. It begins in 1933 when Yiddish poet, playwright, essayist and activist Melech Ravitch (a pseudonym for Zekharye Khone Bergner) left Europe in search of a new home for Europes increasingly threatened Jewish population. He arrived in Australia with the fantasy that among the Kimberleys lied the Promised Land for his people. Decades later his son, the acclaimed artist Yosl Bergner, memorialised this