Artist Information:
Shlomi Haggai
shoham,
Israel
Member Since: Jan 2001
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Artist Statement:
The Skin of the Painting,
the Body of the Building
Remarks on the Paintings of
Shlomi Haggai
Shlomi Haggai’s paintings
mislead the person
contemplating them. At first
glance, they look ‘friendly’,
communicative, easily
accessible and simple to
understand. Further glances
expose to the viewer the
defense mechanisms, which make
it difficult for him to decode
the complexity, and the
mystery concealed under the
skin of the painting.
The viewer’s thoughts move
between the immediate and
innocent reading of the
painting as “paintings of
archeological or industrial
landscapes” and a complex and
more stratified reading of
them as “paintings of a
journey from the outside to
the inside, from the regions
of matter to the regions of
the psyche”.
In this essay I want to sketch
a characterization of this
visual-psychic journey that
the artist has been conducting
for several years, the
condensed reconstruction of
which transpires before the
eyes of the viewer who
contemplates the paintings and
interprets them at the same
time.
This process resembles the way
one understands painting, as
described by Avigdor Arikha:
“Painting is impact. Not
significance. […] The step
from painting to painting can
only continue as a step in
darkness. As a...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Exhibitions
1990 – Graduates
Exhibition, Bezalel Academy
of Art, jerusalem.
1991 – “Ten Bezalel
Graduates”, Kibbutz Bar-Am
Gallery catalogue
1994 – “Facing Reality”,
Mishkenot Sha’ananim,
Jerusalem,1994. Curator:
Nela Cassuto (catalogue)
1995 – “Similitude”,
Bezalel Academy of Art
Photography
1998 – “Artist’s
Portfolio”, Contemporary Art
at Daphna Naor, Jerusalem
1998 – “In the ...
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Shlomi Haggai's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Shlomi Haggai's Portfolio. Browse Haggai's body of work: The Skin of the Painting, the Body of the Building
Remarks on the Paintings of Shlomi Haggai
Shlomi Haggai’s paintings mislead the person contemplating them. At first glance, they look ‘friendly’, communicative, easily accessible and simple to understand. Further glances expose to the viewer the defense mechanisms, which make it difficult for him to decode the complexity, and the mystery concealed under the skin of the painting.
The viewer’s thoughts move between the immediate and innocent reading of the painting as “paintings of archeological or industrial landscapes” and a complex and more stratified reading of them as “paintings... |
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