STATEMENT
The common denominator for the technique used throughout my work is abstraction. The main advantage abstraction provides is that it enables a dialogue between the visible and the invisible, i.e. it gives form to something which is formless, to an invisible world of concepts. Through this process, the image of a world emerges, featuring pairs of contradictory ideas, the prevailing one amongst them being that of order vs. disorder. To this result I was led instinctively through geometric drawing and solid-color surfaces on the one hand, and the chromatic surface of gestural strokes on the other. My visual art work comprises painting and sculptural installation.
In my paintings, on both small and big canvases, oil is the main material, but I also use, to a far lesser extent, markers, pencils, pens, mostly to enhance the drawing and the tonal value of details. My sculptural installations, both small- and big-scale, are made of wooden laths and plywood, painted with acrylic colors, complemented by the addition of other materials such as metal, various (ready-made) objects and frames. They constitute an extension and projection of my paintings in the three-dimensional real space. Consequently, every time I finish a work, although I cannot describe in detail what is happening in front of me and in me, I nevertheless feel deeply that this event, this work “is there”, it exists, while at the same time there is always a hint of doubt and insecurity, which I personally regard as the core of the force that urges me to carry on…!
