
Iddo Markus
Currently on view online and on-site at the Herzliya Museum, “Portrait Time II” presents a cluster of seven solo shows. Among them is “Variations on 1679.jpg,” consisting of hundreds of paintings and prints by Iddo Markus, hung side by side and culled from a series of approximately one thousand works. All depict the same woman, her head tilted toward her right shoulder, her scruffy hair a shadowy aura. While the posture repeats itself ad nauseam, the visual information and, by extension, her recognizability—her very personhood—vary from one canvas to the next. The room she is shown in is abstracted