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Black Box: Ori Gersht
Ori Gersht (b. 1967, Tel Aviv) currently lives and works in London. He is noted for his series of large-scale photographs and arresting moving-image pieces. The artist’s work encourages viewers to reflect on the power of natural beauty and how it is affected by human intervention.
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Francis Bacon (British, born Dublin, Ireland, 1909–1992) grew up in Dublin and London amidst the upheaval of World War I and the Irish Home Rule movement. After leaving home at 16, he spent the late 1920s in Berlin and Paris, where he worked as an interior designer. He decided to become an artist after seeing an impressive Paris exhibition of Pablo Picasso's works, and in 1929 he returned to London and began painting. Virtually self-taught, Bacon won early praise from influential critics during the 1930s. However, in about 1943, he destroyed most of his early paintings.