Izhar Patkin
Go East by Going West 1989
Collaborative work between Izhar Patkin and Pedro Cuperman.
Digital impression
15.5 x 12”
Izhar Patkin (b. 1955, Haifa, Israel), is a New York-based artist who worked closely with Point of Contact founder, Pedro Cuperman, in various collaborative projects. One of them was the publication of Go East by Going West (Carla Sozzani Editore, 1989), featuring photos of Patkin’s life size, anodized cast aluminum sculpture depicting a Don Quixote reading The Adventures of Don Quijote Part II, while looking in a mirror, with text by Cuperman.
Patkin served as Art Director of Point of Contact some years later, in 1993. The series Souvenirs da Bahia was created during his tenure as Art Director. The back cover of a 1993 Point of Contact issue features Don Quixote, situating the work within the broader context of the publication The America's Baroque – Vol. 3 No. 3.
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Souvenirs da Bahia 1993
Signed collaged photographs
Collaborative work with Kristina Colovic
7 × 10 in. (unframed); Mat 18 × 14 in.