NOBLE

A book on Jewish noble laureates, published in the 1960’s, had caught my attention – all of the laureates were men, and most had mustaches. The series is a monument to a childhood dream of mine to be an award-winning scientist. At least I decorated several of the real winners with color.

The series contains 32 paintings
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm

2005

JOHANN FRIEDRICH WILHELM ADOLF VON BAEYER

1905, Chemistry

SIR ERNST BORIS CHAIN

1945, Medicine

ROBERT BÁRÁNY

1914, Medicine

JAMES FRANCK

1925, Physics

GAMZU

I received from my grandmother several books of Haim Gamzu, a literature and art critic and a past curator of Tel Aviv Museum. Since I never studied art in an academic way, his books served me both as a course of Israeli history of art and as a comfortable platform for drawing and color experiments.

The series contains around 400 paintings
Markers and pencil on paper
34 x 24 cm

2015 -2018

A NAKED WOMAN

CIRCLES

PURPLE AND YELLOW

BIRDS

ELECTRICITY

During my military service I was enchanted by transmission towers and their splendor while I was passing by them, especially at full-moon nights. I played a lot of chess at the time and developed a fantasy to build a chess board out of them somewhere in the desert. I even visited the electric corporation and received blueprints of the towers’ design. Years later I found those blueprints and painted them. That is all that left of the megalomaniac childish fantasy.

The series contains 30 paintings
Oil on paper
29 x 21 cm
2008 – 2010

#24

#17

#3

#26

ST. JAMES BIBLE

In my youth I have acquired a Saint James Holy Bible from 1704. At some point I started using it to clean the brushes, unintendedly creating small and seemingly insignificant paintings. With time the pages accumulated, and I developed a motivation to decorate every page of the old and new testaments.

The series contains around 150 paintings
Oil on paper
37 x 25 cm

2015 – 2020

DAVID'S MEDITATION

LABYRINTH

DAVID'S PRAYER

ECCLESIASTES

INVOICE BOOKS

I love using invoice books and banknotes, old and new alike. On one hand it might be a wish that my work would bring me profit, and on the other it might be a reflection on the meaning of money in general. The way in which a banknote turns into something else with the addition of color amuses and surprises me.

The series contains around 350 paintings
Oil on paper
20 x 13 cm
2008

A ROOM

BROWN SUN

FLOWER

JAZZ