Samuel Bak

First Step

   
First Step
  • 2017
  • Oil on canvas
  • 20 18 × 16 inches(51 × 40 12 cm)

  • Signed lower right: BAK

  • First Step into the Game of Life or the performance of his Life.
    Dice abound and remind us that our survival is a matter of pure chance.

    As the sides of the dice are unfolded, only the 3 is missing. Maybe the missing trinity? The disks are handled as if they are part of his act.

    The disconnected leg and attendant boot emphasize "standing on one foot", a reminder of the Talmudic tale when the man asks Hillel to summarize the teachings of the Torah on one foot. Probably not!

    Irony abounds. Impossibilities abound. A test of our sense of reality.

    Bernard H. Pucker, BAK a Day, February 17, 2022

  • Themes:  Figure Dice

Exhibitions

Chance in the Art of Samuel Bak 2017 Boston, MA

Literature

CHANCE in the Art of SAMUEL BAK Jeffrey Gantz 2017 Boston, MA, p. 26, ill.

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