Munio Weinraub, Amos Gitai: ARCHITECTURE, FILM

Opening Friday, 15 May 2009, for Museum Members and Patrons Open to the general public from 16 May Location Sam and Ayala Zacks Pavilion Guest Curator Prof. Winfried Nerdinger

This exhibition presents a dialogue between two generations, two media and two forms of expression, as it emerges from the works of father and son – Munio Weinraub and Amos Gitai. Weinraub (1909-1970), a Bauhaus-trained architect, emigrated from Germany to Eretz Israel in the mid-1930s and settled in Haifa. Here he implemented Bauhaus principles and became one of the pioneers of modern functional architecture. He worked for the labor movement’s local institutions and planned numerous projects, including cultural buildings, industrial plants, kibbutzim and private housing units, and participated in the planning of the Hebrew University campus in Givat Ram, Jerusalem and the Yad Vashem memorial. His son Amos Gitai (b. 1950) trained as an architect and, following the Yom Kippur War, became a major Israeli filmmaker, examining the central issues of Israel and the Middle East. Among his well-known films: “House”, “Wadi”, “Kadosh”, “Kippur”, “Kedma”, “Alila” and “Promised Land”. The exhibition was conceived and exhibited at the Architecture Museum of the Munich Technical University, and adapted for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.