born in Israel, 1945
lives and works in Ramat Gan

Yair Garbuz's work welcomes visitors to the exhibition with the words "Ready Maideleh," a brilliant linguistic twist that suggests an Israeli version of Duchamp's wordplay of erotic connotations. The expression fuses, with great vulgarity and without mercy, the artistic avant-garde with provincial chauvinism. The combination of art, sexism and Yiddishisms indicates that readymade is also an ethnologic matter. In another small work of his, Garbuz adds Marc Chagall and "Fiddler on the Roof" to the effervescent mix of precedents, sources, influences, quotations, appropriations, and complexes of there and here, them and us. Welcome to 100 years of readymade, made in Israel.