Der Dritte Tempel: Truth for all Humanity

Benyamin Reich has an exhibit until the 26th at RISE in Neukölln.

The prophet Isaiah described the Third Temple as a source of divine inspiration and truth for all humanity. Reich's first exhibition at RISE Berlin entitled 'The Third Temple' is autobiographical, it expresses a desire to unify the spiritual and secular elements of his life (Reich was raised within a Jewish ultra-orthodox family; he attended religious schools and yeshivas until he left home at an early age to find his way in the secular world).

In the installation the viewer is given a unique and privileged view into Reich's extraordinary world, a world that contrasts the sensuous flesh and physical beauty of the secular world with the strict formality of orthodox religion, Reich somehow finds spirituality and eroticism in both.

You can see some more pix on the gallery home page and some other ones at Siegessäule magazine and still more on his mySpace page.