Jerusalem Artist Yoram Raanan Exhibits at the Heichal Shlomo Museum of Jewish Art.

THE JERUSALEM POST

Photo by courtesy of museum

ISRAEL---‘Heavenly Lights: Yoram Raanan’s Contemporary Art of Ancient Jewish Symbols,” which opened yesterday, is currently showing at the Heichal Shlomo Museum of Jewish Art. This exhibition includes large expressionist canvases, as well as paintings and sculptures using painted book covers as their medium. In the heart of the Heichal Shlomo complex, juxtaposed to the existing exhibit of holy books rescued from Vilna, is a new presentation of Raanan’s book covers. Alongside the old Torah scrolls that hang like bodies wrapped for burial, Raanan’s painted, freestanding covers from the Babylonian Talmud’s Vilna edition bring a spirit of renewal into the historical exhibition. [link]