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Yigal Ozeri | Shadows of Reality

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開幕日期:
2016年06月16日
時間:
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
閉幕日期:
2016年06月30日
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It is with great excitement that Opera Gallery Hong Kong is to exhibit a series of exceptional works by one of the world’s foremost photorealistic painters, New York- based Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri.

It is the exuberance present in Yigal Ozeri’s works, perhaps even more than their obvious technical brilliance, that overwhelms the viewer. Painted with thousands of tiny brushstrokes, Ozeri’s impeccable handiwork and alluring subject matter generate an idyllic milieu that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. Tinting classical feminine beauty with impossibly realistic solar flares, dreamy backlight and

jubilant colour tones, Ozeri’s paintings breathe an elated sensuality into fleeting moments of women interacting with their natural habitats.

The tradition of photographic realism dates back several centuries, as does society’s obsession with capturing reality in all of its gritty, humanist glory. Since the times of Christ, artists dedicated their practice to producing lifelike renderings of an imagined figure. Bewitched by the promise of fantasy-in-life, painters like da Vinci, Raphael, Titian and Rembrandt represented scenes that answered society’s wish to possess and contain beauty. Once artists began painting scenes that did exist in reality, the use of photorealistic techniques were employed in order to accurately portray the scene at hand. Pre-camera, artists such as Van Eyck and, famously, Vermeer, employed tools such as the camera obscura to project and trace the image before them, allowing for the immortalisation of history through faithful representations.

Working from, rather than tracing, his own digital captures, Ozeri’s work employs similar optical devices to achieve brilliantly realistic renderings. While the photographs reflect true captures of the women in his paintings, it is the element of fantasy that sets his work apart from comparably technical work. In his paintings we gaze into a vision of enthralling beauty – projected not just by the painted figure, but by the airy freedom they seem to be in possession of; the limitless natural landscape framed and enshrined by the gleaming sun. As director, designer and painter, Ozeri’s veneration of the power of beauty emphasises, rather than minimises, the poignancy of his works.

Biography

Yigal Ozeri was born in Israel in 1958. His work appeared on the cover Photorealism in the Digital Age published in 2013, and was included in 50 years of Hyperrealistic Paintings, a traveling exhibition that began in the Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and moved to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao. His work makes up part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, the Jewish Museum in New York, the New York Public Library, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Albertina in Vienna, among others. He is currently based in New York.

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