Serigraph

TANYA WISSOTZKY AND ALEXANDER GLATCHANSKY

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 colour. 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 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 centrepiece has all the nostalgia and romanticism of a time past, the colour 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.
EXHIBITIONS:
Union of Artists House – Kiev USSR 1990
Cultural Centre, The Old Synagogue, Florence Italy 1992
Community Centre, Brighton, England 1993
Art Expo, New York, USA 1994
Art Expo, Las Vegas, USA 1994
Gallery Safrai, Tel Aviv, Israel 1994
Binyanei Ha’uma, Jerusalem, (permanent Exhibition)

Holland born, received her formal training in fine and commercial arts at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Immigrated to Israel in 1963 and lives in Jerusalem, with her husband. She has three children. Stayed in Boston, USA (1967-1969); Oxford, England (1974-1975), and Philadelphia, USA (1980-1981, 1985-1986), where she took courses in printing techniques.

She has specialized in print making and has developed new techniques in monoprints, collagraphs and embossments, used also in her commercial art, such as illustrations, book jackets, posters and illustrations for television programs.

Born in 1951 in Haifa, Israel, Yuval Mahler studied graphic design and animation at the School of Visuals Arts in New York City. Mahler draws upon a rich supply of wry humor, satire, caricature, and comedy to produce his insightful studies of human behaviour. His paintings explore human relationships under various conditions of life all over the world and sometimes exploring Jewish life. Mahler’s work appeals to the child in us all, to optimists as well as media. The variety of his art includes Fiberglass, Acrylic, Gouache, Metal Cutting, 3D Lithograps, Serigraphs and Giclle. His paintings have been shown in galleries and exhibitions in many countries, including Israel, U.S.A., Canada, Germany and Switzerland.One of Mahler’s greatest achievements is that Swatch Watches chose him from all of the Israeli artists to design their stores in Israel

Born in 1951 in Haifa, Israel, Yuval Mahler studied graphic design and animation at the School of Visuals Arts in New York City. Mahler draws upon a rich supply of wry humor, satire, caricature, and comedy to produce his insightful studies of human behaviour. His paintings explore human relationships under various conditions of life all over the world and sometimes exploring Jewish life. Mahler’s work appeals to the child in us all, to optimists as well as media. The variety of his art includes Fiberglass, Acrylic, Gouache, Metal Cutting, 3D Lithograps, Serigraphs and Giclle. His paintings have been shown in galleries and exhibitions in many countries, including Israel, U.S.A., Canada, Germany and Switzerland.One of Mahler’s greatest achievements is that Swatch Watches chose him from all of the Israeli artists to design their stores in Israel