Jerusalem (Triptych)
- Original composition
- Year
- 2013
- Medium
- Stone, ceramic and glass mosaic on wood panel
- Dimensions
- 81 × 122 cm (each of the three panels)
About this work
On the lower floor of the exhibition hangs the triptych: three mosaic panels, each 122 cm wide and 81 cm high, together spreading a skyline 3.66 metres long. At 2.96 square metres it is the largest work in the exhibition, almost double the next.
And this view was not taken from a ready photograph. Rami Alon went out and shot it himself — some thirty frames, from the terrace of the King David Hotel and from a commercial building north of it. He developed them all, and out of them worked out the view and the order: what continues what, and where the boundary falls between one panel and the next. Only then did he begin cutting stone.
The exhibition’s curator, Doron Polak, recommends stopping in front of it. Not a passing glance — standing before it, and letting the eye travel its length from end to end.
Because from a distance it is a wall. Up close it turns out to have been built exactly as the wall itself was built: stone after stone, each one cut by hand and set in its place.
Jerusalem · the curator at the wall
Doron Polak stops at the work during a tour with an international group, and asks his guests to give it time.