TEL AVIV.- Eran Reshef’s paintings reflect the artist’s interest in the elements of representation, and express a renewed concern with pictorial truth and with the temporal dimension of artistic representation with new significance, which fuses together past and present. In Reshef’s paintings, time seems to have stopped still. His compositions demand of the viewer to examine them in a sustained manner, which goes beyond an appreciation of the technical skill involved in the artist’s highly precise act of representation. The objects in these paintings are all familiar – a sun-heated water tank, an electric switch, a water basin, a small ironing board; at the same time, the powerful presence of these painted objects exceeds their importance in the real world. The representational process charges these objects with multiple layers of meaning, and endows them with an ambivalent character. The details that make up each of the compositions –