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The
works of Tanya Wissotzky and Alexander Glatchansky are
created by the interaction of two independent imaginations working
in intellectual and aesthetic harmony. Each complements the other,
producing works in which the process of creation is revealed as
it reaches a harmonious yet complex resolution.
They
have achieved a painterly idiom which is a visual dynamic of crescendo
and diminuendo, a vibration between the sensuous and cerebral.
Working in acrylic, pen and ink, and collage on specially prepared
canvas, they speak in many voices which are yet one voice. The
subdued pastel tones of the background swirl and gather romantically
to focal points as rich in association as they are in color. Superimposed
upon them are the learned and expert line drawings of scenes both
evocative and ironic.
These
scenes, like sketches from the artist's notebook, each contain
a world of their own while commenting on the canvas as a own while
commenting on the canvas as a whole. The excerpts of calligraphy
from old English flower painting manuals underline the concern
with process as well as result, while other calligraphic quotations
celebrate Paris of the Twenties, which is certainly one of the
artists' many sources of visual reference. In the still lifes,
the classically executed centerpiece has all the nostalgia and
romanticism of a time past, the color rich and sensuous.
Juxtaposed against this are the music scores, totally dry and
abstract and yet evocative of gaiety and pleasure. The eye is
caught in pleasant surprise as the smaller quotations, in collage
ink or paint, reveal themselves, linking the chain of associations
in fascinatingly various ways.
The
work of this pair of young Israeli artists has received critical
acclaim and success both in Israel and abroad and their works
are to be found in public and private collections all over the
world.
Tanya Wissotzky and Alexander Glatchansky were born in the same
year, 1959, and studied at the Odessa Academy of Fine Arts. One
of Ms. Wissotzky's main interests besides her work as an artist
is in the conservation of Nature. Alexander Glatchansky is a fine
book illustrator in his own right and has been awarded prizes
for his achievements in this field. |