Avinadav Begin, the grandson of late prime minister Menachem Begin and the son of former politician Benny Begin, is an artist who welds iron and steel, pouring cement and then pigments, the powdery substance that provides color to paint, creating intense, hefty fields of color.

More than 40 of his works are currently on display through September 29 at Tel Aviv’s Sheetrit & Wolf Contemporary Art Gallery in “Avinadav Begin: Works.”

It is Begin’s largest solo exhibit to date, with 44 works that he created in recent years. The show has been in development for well over a year and took a while to happen, said Begin, given the difficulties that have accompanied the ongoing war, hostage situation, Iranian attacks, and general trauma in Israeli society.

“We’re still in limbo,” said Begin, speaking in his workshop, a cinderblock space in Even Sapir, a moshav on the outskirts of Jerusalem. “The hostages’ families are in a limbo of hell, while the rest of us are in a limbo somewhere between the Garden of Eden and hell.”

While Begin, 51, spends a lot of time thinking about the state of the country and what he believes is the immense, gaping distance between the Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that of his grandfather, the party’s founder, though he prefers to stay away from politics.

That said, for Begin, it’s been nearly impossible to avoid in the last three years, since Netanyahu’s government was voted into office and Justice Minister Yariv Levin launched his controversial judicial overhaul program.

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