Exhibition - Contrasts & Conflicts
Curated by Veronica Regini
Water colours, acrylics, wax pastels, ink.
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With no fears GALI SZENKIER analyzes all the creases of a love relationship, with lucid courage she unveils and portrays the complexity of the lovers verbal and non-verbal communication.
For her, conflict is represented by the love-hate state affecting a persons mind and action. The struggle which grows out of two opposing forces, in this case, man versus woman.
The artist has a great ability of mixing the family cosiness represented by bright happy colours in a mixed media technique with the metaphoric representation of the unspoken world of our deepest feelings.
She uses elements of ethnic art inspired by cultures from around the world in contrast with deliberate brush marks so as to create visual interest, sexual tension and drama; she also sometimes introduces feminist symbolism representing the female point of view within a relationship.
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This painting is inspired by the song "Bedouin Love" written by Weingarten and sung by the Israeli-Spanish singer, David Broza.

"-cease to be like the sands, I want you like a rock!
he then promised not to wander again like the sand.
you're a nomad the desert whispered,
a voice calls to wander, wander
he forgot all that he had promised
in the storm he stretched his hands
in a dance of madness in the stems of reeds
And when got back again on his horse
to put deeper the pole of the tent
on the tent-cloths she embroidered
in strings and colours words
welcome back traitor,
grasp the pole of the tent well
for the wandering storm has also swept me"