Leonid Balaklav’s exhibition focuses on paintings that he produced on planks of wood since his immigration to Israel in 1990, from Moldova in the USSR, which have become a significant support in his work. For him, the attraction of these boards lies not only in the fact that they evoke the memory of his father’s woodworking, but also because they – and consequently the depicted figures – bear the marks of the passage of time. The figures are like beings rising from the artist’s memory, which are also phantoms of the history of art. Read more
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