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This exhibition is yet another brick
in the glorious buildings of paintings inspired by literature and juxtaposing these two realms of art. It is an interpretive,
principle confrontation between the worlds of literature and painting, and between the worlds of Kafka and Jacob Porat. However,
more than anything else, it is a confrontation with the world of the readers-viewers – their way of deciphering Kafka's
works on the background of Prague and their comprehension of Kafka paintings by Jacob Porat. [Prof. Nurit
Govrin, Tel Aviv University]
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The paintings are a splendid aesthetic expression of a world
of nightmares, of frightful dreams becoming concrete, of the encounter between madness and nightmare and the logical, sane,
and clear. They manifest art’s exclusive ability to unify conflicts and contradictions, to express lunacy by aesthetic
means, and to concurrently depict contradictory situations: terror and beauty, colorful loneliness, styled nightmare, terrestrial
hovering, and life growing out of death [Prof. Govrin]
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To Jacob Porat, friend and colleague
Kafka in town
As a ghost now
With double meaning
He
He within you
Prague and its castle, palaces, churches, gardens, houses,
bridges and abundant water
As if it were paradise – a departing angle for Kafkaesque
thoughts on reality and hell
And how to penetrate his soul
You try photography, composition, graffiti, word and image
Repeating changing motifs
You try
And
Attain
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