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The Exile 1993
An allegory of the senses as the isolated inhabitants
of a golden Gothic garden in a series of eight
oil & gold leaf paintings.


 

the exile izhar patkin
the exile izhar patkin
The Exile; The Garden Gate
64” x 40” oil, leaf, screen
collection Guggenheim Museum
The Exile; The Garden Wall
64” x 40” oil, leaf, screen
collection Guggenheim Museum

 

The Exile paintings take a look at the classical theme of the exile from the garden. As in The Perfect Existence in the Rose Garden, the format of these paintings is based on Stefano da Zevio’s fifteenth century painting, Madonna of the Rose Garden, in which the rose garden (a hortus conclusus) is fenced in, but has an entrance open at one end towards the viewer.

 

Stefano da Zevio
Madonna of the Rose Garden, ca. 1402
Museo di Castelvecchio Verona
 

 

 

 


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the exile izhar patkin the exile izhar patkin
The Exile; The Six Senses
64” x 40” oil, leaf, screen
collection Guggenheim Museum


The Exile; The Six Senses
64” x 40” oil, leaf, screen
collection Guggenheim Museum
the exile izhar patkin the exile izhar patkin
The Exile; The Six Senses
64” x 40” oil, leaf, screen
collection Guggenheim Museum

 

The Exile; The Six Senses
64” x 40” oil, leaf, screen
collection Guggenheim Museum
the exile izhar patkin the exile izhar patkin
The Exile; The Six Senses
64” x 40” oil, leaf, screen
collection Guggenheim Museum

 

The Exile; The Six Senses
64” x 40” oil, leaf, screen
collection Guggenheim Museum