![]() “He relates to her as a character, trying to think as she does,” said Lanir, showing an exhibit case full of sketches and source material that served as inspiration for Polonsky while working on the graphic novel.Ī long, narrow vitrine in the middle of the gallery is filled with quirky toys and figurines made by Polonsky, sometimes out of leftover gum containers or other recycled bits and pieces, recreating characters he’s thinking about and working on at the moment. “Illustrations: David Polonsky” is exhibited through February 18, 2023, in the museum’s Agnes and Beny Steinmetz Wing for Architecture and Design of the Herta and Paul Amir Building.Ī fan and lifelong lover of comics herself, Lanir begins the exhibit with an in-depth look at Polonsky’s immense animation work on “Waltz With Bashir,” the film by Ari Folman about the director’s own memories of the 1982 Lebanon War. The rest are digital prints we did on fine art paper, but they’re prints, not originals.” “There’s no original drawings here, really, except for some from his children’s book. ![]() ![]() “It’s unusual for the museum,” said Lanir. It wasn’t too hard for curator Tal Lanir to convince illustrator David Polonsky, the artist behind “Waltz with Bashir” and the graphic novel “Where is Anne Frank?” to agree to a solo show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.īut it took some time to figure out what to actually hang on the walls, given that Polonsky creates all of his illustrated and animated works on a computer. ![]()
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