First Redemption Branch  Binyamin Gallery 2022

Part of the group exhibition: In-Betweenness
Curator: Inbar Goldberg

Photo by: Liat Elbing

Redemption of The citadel of Arco in the South Tyrol by Albrecht Dürer (1495), 2020, pen, pencil and maskingtape (drawn on page 01, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of The Valley of the Arno, near Florance by Leonardo da Vinci (1473), 2020, pen, pencil, charcol and maskingtape (drawn on page 02, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Mountain landscape by Dosso Dossi, 2020, pen, pencils and maskingtape (drawn on page 03, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Landscape of the foothills of the Alps by Titian, 2020, pen, pencils and maskingtape (drawn on page 04, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Two youths (Ahed and Muhammed Tamimi and a soldier) in a landscape (Nabi Samuel) by Titian (1510), 2020, pen and pencils (drawn on page 05, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Landscape by Domenico Campagneda, 2020, pen, pencil and maskingtape (drawn on page 06, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of View of a walled town with a tower and drawbridge by Guercino (1627), 2020, pen, pencil and maskingtape (drawn on page 09, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Landscape with trees and a tower by Nicolas Poussin, 2020, pen and pencils (drawn on page 12, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Campagna landscape by Claude Lorrain, 2020, pen, pencil and maskingtape (drawn on page 15, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Landscape: the edge of a wood by Claude Lorrain (1645), 2020, pen, pencil and maskingtape (drawn on page 18, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Wooded landscape by Rembrandt, 2020, pencil and maskingtape (drawn on page 19, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Landscape with a thatched cottage (Havat Gilaad) by Rembrandt, 2020, pen and maskingtape (drawn on page 20, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Landscape with bridge (Nativ Haavot) by Rembrandt, 2020, pen and maskingtape (drawn on page 21, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Farm building at the "Dijk" (Beit Igaza to the direction of Nabi Samuel) by Rembrandt (1648), 2020, pen, pencil and white chalk, (drawn on page 22, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Landscape (Mizpe Kramim) by Jan Both, 2020, pencil and maskingtape (drawn on page 24, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Landscape with church by Adrian van Ostade, 2020, pen, pencil, white chalk and maskingtape (drawn on page 26, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Landscape with ruined church by Jacob van Ruisdael, 2020, pen and maskingtape, (drawn on page 27, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Landscape with bridge by Jacob van Ruisdael, 2020, pen and maskingtape (drawn on page 29, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Landscape with mills by Jacob van Ruisdael, 2020, pencils and white chalk (drawn on page 30, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Landscape by Meindert Hobbema, 2020, pen, pencil and maskingtape (drawn on page 32, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Capriccio with rustic cottage by Canaletto, 2020, pen, pencil and maskingtape (drawn on page 35, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Landscape with decayed willow tree by Thomas Gainsborough (1755), 2020, pen, pencil and maskingtape (drawn on page 36, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Wooded landscape with two donkeys by Thomas Gainsborough (1755), 2020, pencil (drawn on page 37, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Landscape with figures by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1770), 2020, graphite and golden pen (drawn on page 40, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Stoke-by-Nayland by John Constable (1830), 2020, pen and maskingtape (drawn on page 42, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of Mt. Soracte from Civita Castellana (Megeron) by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1827), 2020, pencils and maskingtape (drawn on page 43, Old Master Landscape drawings, Dover art library, edited by James Spero, 1992)

Redemption of The poppies field at Argenteuil (Megeron) by Claude Monet (1873), 2018, pencil and maskingtape on postcard

Redemption of the girls on the bridge by Edvard Munch (1901), 2021, pencils and maskingtape on German art magazine Jahresweiser durch alte und neue Kunst 1961

Redemption of The Valley of Mexico by Jose Maria Velasco (1905), 2016, charcoal and maskingtape on an Hoechst calendar November page

Redemption of Boating by Raoul Dufy (1935), 2018, Acrylic, pen and pencil on a postcard

Redemption of Sunset in Dovedale Ilam rock by Scott Russell & Co, 2018, charcoal and maskingtape on a postcard

Redemption of Two Carlists (and Achaphale) by Josep Berga I Boix, 2021, pens (drawn on page 32, Catalogue: Museu Municipal De Tossa, Secciò d’Art Modern, Glòria Bosch i mir, 1986)

Redemption of Landscape (Itamar) by Joan Colom, 2021, pen pencil and maskingtape (drawn on page 83, Catalogue: Museu Municipal De Tossa, Secciò d’Art Modern, Glòria Bosch i mir, 1986)

Redemption of Bellaterra by Joan VilaßPuig, 2021, Pens and pencil, 2021 (drawn on page 118, Catalogue: Museu Municipal De Tossa, Secciò d’Art Modern, Glòria Bosch i mir, 1986)

Redemption of Huts in landscape by Emili Bosch-Roger (1933), 2021, Pens, pencil, charcoal and maskingtape (drawn on page 135, Catalogue: Museu Municipal De Tossa, Secciò d’Art Modern, Glòria Bosch i mir, 1986)

Redemption of The Old City by Concepcio Boter, 2021, pen, pencil and maskingtape (drawn on page 165, Catalogue: Museu Municipal De Tossa, Secciò d’Art Modern, Glòria Bosch i mir, 1986)

Redemption of The Wheat Field by Lola Bech, 2021, Pens and pencil (drawn on page 182, Catalogue: Museu Municipal De Tossa, Secciò d’Art Modern, Glòria Bosch i mir, 1986)

Redemption of Banys (checkpoint 300) by Nuria Llimona, 2021, Pens and pencil (drawn on page 189, Catalogue: Museu Municipal De Tossa, Secciò d’Art Modern, Glòria Bosch i mir, 1986)

Redemption of The Landscape by Roger Marcel Limouse, 2021, pens (drawn on page 235, Catalogue: Museu Municipal De Tossa, Secciò d’Art Modern, Glòria Bosch i mir, 1986)

Redemption of Tossa's Promenade by Emile Sabouraud, 2021, pen, pencil and maskingtape (drawn on page 240, Catalogue: Museu Municipal De Tossa, Secciò d’Art Modern, Glòria Bosch i mir, 1986)

Redemption of The Landscape by Oswald Peterson (1934), 2021, Pens and pencil (drawn on page 265, Catalogue: Museu Municipal De Tossa, Secciò d’Art Modern, Glòria Bosch i mir, 1986)

Redemption of The violinist by Marc Chagall (1934), 2021, erasing, pens and pencil (drawn on page 283, Catalogue: Museu Municipal De Tossa, Secciò d’Art Modern, Glòria Bosch i mir, 1986)

The first Redemption Branch installation is a place where visitors are invited to take part to call for redemption (Geula in Hebrew). They are encouraged to write messages on postcards to summon an actual or imagined redeemer who can resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In many of Ritov's works she use concepts and images drawn from the Israeli surrounding relating to local narratives in general, and in particularly to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She pulls familiar representations out of their charged contexts and repositions them.

The images on the postcards are printed drawings from the Redemption series: 
Appropriated landscape paintings by canonical artists (Renaissance to the beginning of the 20 century) in which Ritov has settled. She recognizes the landscapes as part of Judea and Samaria geography, then, by erasing, covering, exposing, drawing or extracting she plants typical images of buildings that characterize the occupied territories of Judea and Samaria: outposts, settlements, temporary structures, military outposts, the separation wall, and more...