Maya Zack, The Shabbat Room 3

Another step into the past: the studio of the painter Isidor Kaufmann, designer of the original "Gute Stube" installation in 1899. It was here that he thought out the installation, and it also contains some of the furniture and objects that he later integrated in the Shabbat room: dining table, chairs, dresser and the clock on top of it, Chanukah menorah, candelabra, vases, and candlesticks. Maya Zack reconstructs these and other objects (e.g. suitcases and shoes on the floor, tallit on the chair) and other features of the room (window, position of the furniture) from an analysis of Kaufmann’s paintings, in which these objects and constellations occur repeatedly. The plaster casts and fossils are visual quotations from Louis Daguerre’s work "The Artist’s Studio," the first daguerreotype, or photograph, in history. The project was made possible thanks to the generous financial support of the Association of FRIENDS, Sotheby’s Kunstauktionen GesmbH, and the Frey familiy.