“dissociations” by Maurice Ganis

In March of 2007, in the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Jewish Museum of Greece was inaugurated Maurice Ganis’s art proposal “dissociations”. The exhibition included ten paintings and one maquette, depicting personal belongings, paintings from earlier times, elements of his personal surroundings and also  forms that refer directly to the past. The artist through his works comments the function of the memory, as well as its multiple significations in everyday life. He brings forward universal questions such as the bipolar relationship a person has with the past or the interweaving of individual memory to the collective memory-History…