2007?2009
Installation of a series of canvases with the Holy Land ground put onto them accompanied by documentary photographs, displaying the artist collecting these grounds.



Jerusalem Gold #1. 120x120 cm, 2008



Jerusalem Gold #2. 120x120 cm, 2008



Jerusalem Gold #3. 120x120 cm, 2008



Jerusalem Gold #4. 120x120 cm, 2008



Dead Sea White #1. 120x120 cm, 2008



Dead Sea White #2. 120x120 cm, 2008



Dead Sea White #3. 120x120 cm, 2008



Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) Black #1. 120x120 cm, 2008


Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) Black #1. 120x120 cm, 2008



Galina Bleikh is collected the ground for her works.

Galina Bleikh makes her pictures using the Israeli earth – the earth of the Promised Land. She puts it on canvases, revealing and concentrating the spiritual light inherent to it, in which any imaging is excessive. “Paints” which the artist uses are kneaded on millennia, impregnated with the sun and consecrated by world religions. Therefore, their Divine energy is so strong. The artist believes that people will want to pray in front of her pictures. She calls her works "New Icon".

Today the civilization has littered the world with artificial visual signs attacking us from TV and computer screens, sticking out of our mail boxes, gazing at us from walls of buildings, filling the earth underfoot and the sky overhead. All of them want to replace real life by themselves. The artist offers to rest from their persuasive insistence. Her works are free not only from imaging, but also from any other visual dependence. They represent pure spaces, where only a prayer can exist.

The earth on a canvas is the natural phenomenon: since from ancient times until our days artists apply the soil colors as picturesque pigments. These pigments are strong and steady against atmospheric influence. Often they are called in honor of those places where they have been found. Galina names her colors so: Qumran ocher, Timna red, Jerusalem golden, Shiloah white. She uses “pure material”, revealing its primordial form.

Galina’s goal is to achieve in her works the sense of sounded earth, being transformed from the material substance to the spiritual one. From this follows the absolute minimalism of composite decisions.

In artist's studio. 2009

Shows:

10/9–10/10/2009
Home. Group Exhibition. Apart.Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Rotem Ritov

12–23/3/2009
Solo Exhibition. Ephrat Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Zipora Ephrat

Photos of the exhibition opening in Ephrat gallery, Tel Aviv, 12/3/2009

 

Media:
Home. Apart.Art Gallery Catalogue. Tel Aviv, Israel. 2009
Ephrat Gallery Catalogue. Tel Aviv, Israel. 2009