To The Point: Posters by Dan Reisinger, a new exhibition opening June 2nd in our Federation’s Bell Family Gallery, spotlights a lifetime of work by award-winning designer Dan Reisinger. Known internationally for his innovative use of symbols and vibrant visual language, Reisinger adopted the motto of his teacher, the renowned British designer Abram Games, who believed in creating designs of “maximum meaning” by “minimum means.” The posters artfully demonstrate Reisinger’s individual style of using and adapting symbols in order to create new meaning.
Reisinger was awarded the Israel Prize—one of the state’s highest honors—in 1998. The jury for that prize called him “a multidisciplinary designer who has imprinted his mark on the visual language of Israel.” Reisinger is perhaps best known for his graphic design work, logos and thought-provoking posters, the latter of which comprise To The Point, the exhibition our Federation has on loan from the Skirball Cultural Center through November 4th, 2014.
The exhibition features three different types of Reisinger posters spanning the past fifty years: personal statements of social protest, advertisements commissioned by El Al Israel Airlines, and a recent series on the changing architectural landscape of Tel Aviv. Reisinger’s unique style is colorful and modern, playful in some posters and making provocative, impactful statements in others.
To The Point: Posters by Dan Reisinger organized by the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
June 2-November 4, 2014
The Bell Family Gallery of The Jewish Federation
6505 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles 90048
Bell Family Gallery Hours
Mon-Thurs: 9:00 AM-8:00 PM
Fri: 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Sun: 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Born in Kanjiza, (former) Yugoslavia in 1934, Reisinger lost several family members in the Holocaust, including his father. He survived the Nazi occupation in a hideout and immigrated with his mother and stepfather to the new State of Israel in 1949. He later attended Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Art and Design as the youngest student accepted to the school at that time.
In 1954, Reisinger served in the Israeli Air Force, where he put his design skills to use art directing military publications. He later studied at the Central School of Art in London, opening his Dan Reisinger Studio in Tel Aviv in 1967, the same year he was commissioned to design the Israeli Pavilion at the Expo ’67 in Montreal. He had his first solo exhibition at the Israel Museum Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1976-77, and has since exhibited his works in Israel and around the world. Reisinger’s designs are currently on display at the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem, the Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, and at underground stations for the Carmelit Railway in Haifa.
We are pleased to be able to share the graphic works of an Israeli artist whose designs continue to make an impact around the world.
For more information, contact Tal Gozani at TGozani@JewishLA.org.
