Moshe Mirsky
24 Mar - 07 May 2011
MOSHE MIRSKY
Quantum Theory
24 March - 7 May, 2011
Moshe Mirsky exhibits blank canvases usually featuring only a single image. The painting is minimal, economical, monochromatic, sometimes bordering on comics. The expression is lean and immediate, playfully and poetically enmeshed in its play of associations, a quiz about both private and public memories.
The images - children, a hand, a snake, a chicken on fire, a horse – create a feeling of a sad echo of memory, an illustration of a story which has evaporated, a troubling and muffled yearning which has crystallized into a monosyllable. Mirsky erases any concrete associations and abandons the image to its fate, like a symbol, a pictogram for all tastes.
The drawings are elusive, emotionally unrevealing. Their grammar is convoluted, mysterious, and enigmatic. They waver between the need to tell and the impulse to conceal.
Moshe Mirsky
Born in 1952
Lives and works at Kibbutz Ein-Harod.
Quantum Theory
24 March - 7 May, 2011
Moshe Mirsky exhibits blank canvases usually featuring only a single image. The painting is minimal, economical, monochromatic, sometimes bordering on comics. The expression is lean and immediate, playfully and poetically enmeshed in its play of associations, a quiz about both private and public memories.
The images - children, a hand, a snake, a chicken on fire, a horse – create a feeling of a sad echo of memory, an illustration of a story which has evaporated, a troubling and muffled yearning which has crystallized into a monosyllable. Mirsky erases any concrete associations and abandons the image to its fate, like a symbol, a pictogram for all tastes.
The drawings are elusive, emotionally unrevealing. Their grammar is convoluted, mysterious, and enigmatic. They waver between the need to tell and the impulse to conceal.
Moshe Mirsky
Born in 1952
Lives and works at Kibbutz Ein-Harod.