Avner Katz - 10.06.05-05.07.05
Israeli Art, Yemin Moshe, Jerusalem
Avner Katz – an artist with original and varied works, who has won many prizes for his paintings and drawings, in Israel and abroad. Avner Katz makes use of numerous and diverse techniques, and in this exhibit he presents works on plywood as well as on paper glued onto plywood. His images sensitively float in the painting, across a colored background, telling a number of stories characterized by an associative nature of imagination and reality. The paintings are comprised of an assembly of images that arise from a collection of personal memories from Katz's childhood scenery, books he has read, events that had occurred in his close environment, all the while being related to the present circumstances.
Katz's images are cut-off in part, and are somewhat distorted and made abstract, to the point where they become signs which hint at a story that is to be completed using one's own imagination. Three works are called "human error" and were exhibited in the Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art, as a tribute to Hanoch Levine. Katz inlayed his 1999-2000 N.Y. paintings onto plywood boards, that had been whitened in a make-up-like fashion, to accomplish an effect of artists on stage. The paintings themselves are misleading in their delicacy, as they in fact allude to catastrophes that occur due to human error.
The other paintings belong to the "Annabel Lee" series from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, and they convey the love which is cut off due to death, and the poet's wish to die. The content of these paintings is related to additional aspects – social and political, again merely insinuated by means of color and form. Avner's paintings attract the eye and stimulate one's imagination. It is up to the viewers to attribute a personal interpretation to his paintings and create a completed picture in one's own imagination, using one's fragmented personal memories. Avner Katz 's Gallery... |  |