Wooden-Horse
etching on paper
23.5 x 30
(lower left): Moreh
1987-297
@Mordechai Moreh
Photo: Ben Uri Gallery
Mordechai Moreh’s works are known for their combination of reality and fantasy, in which both the humour and tragedy of human existence are reflected. This etching seems to have been...
Mordechai Moreh’s works are known for their combination of reality and fantasy, in which both the humour and tragedy of human existence are reflected. This etching seems to have been inspired by Yabusame, a type of traditional Japanese mounted archery tournament. Despite the tragedy of the horse and the archer shot with multiple arrows, the image is more captivating than gruesome. The artist depicts the armour, the arrows, the horse’s body and the skull in great detail, compelling the viewer to carefully study all elements. Instead of blood, flowers and plants emerge out of the armour, while the horse’s mouth starts to resemble a dragon’s one. Moreh’s has been previously described as ‘cruel in dry-point, his needle biting into the metal’, which is acutely visible in the ‘Wooden Horse’, with the work’s background, for instance, scratched throughout to add texture to the paper.
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