Peinture n° 110

This work full of tension oscillates between instinct and control, emotion and rigour.
Moshe Kupferman was the only survivor of a Jewish family that was deported during the Second World War. He emigrated to Israel in 1948 and in 1967 he began to devote himself wholly to his artistic practice. The artist cultivated an attachment for the artisanal dimension, particularly weaving techniques, inherited from his parents who traded in textiles. His pictorial technique is based on two phases: first the expression on the canvas of his tormented past, then the subtle erasure of these traces in order to produce abstract paintings that are often based on a grid motif.