Edward Tabachnik

Through all my works you will find that my attitude toward color and light combines tradition of impressionism with various surrealistic situations.
Working on illustrations for Kafka's novels, I was looking for a symbolic image of a mystical town. I found it in Gaudi's "Sagrada Familia".
Almost on each of my paintings you can see my "signature"- flying phantasmagoria tower, which has become for me a living entity, procreating itself, connecting The Past with The Future.
Fascinated with the theory of Black Holes and the origin of The World is also reflected in many paintings in the form of “Singularity“, through which Time passes, connecting The Past with The Future.
I was always attracted to mystery of Kabbalah, and to other Jewish teachings. Many of my works are related to these themes.
After seeing the destroyed Synagogue in Berlin, I’ve “recreated” it in my painting, and also dedicated a number of my works to Jewish History.
In my works I try to blend my fantasy with sometimes well known, sometimes created architectural details.
My schooling was both - in architecture and painting. My love for architecture can be seen through many of my works.
There is peace and serenity in my later works, it is a kind of self protection against the cruelty, violence and the disturbance of today's life.
In some of my works I am looking with a "modern eye" at the earlier times, interpreting the vision of the artists who lived centuries ago.

New Style: “Romantic Expressionism.”
Romantic Expressionism (RE) is a complex way of combining some characteristics of impressionism, surrealism and traditions of the "Old Masters".
There is a desire to penetrate into the mysteries of the Universe, and attempt to depict such abstract notions as multidimensional space, to reflect on the idea of time - from the Past, through the Present, to the Future; to show existing and non-existing; to connect to the Art Energy of the Universe; to exist in many Parallel Worlds at the same time.

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