Yehouda Chaki | A Breath of Light

June 11 - July 4, 2015

Odon Wagner Contemporary is pleased to present A Breath of Light, a solo exhibition of new paintings by artist Yehouda Chaki. When looking at the works of Yehouda Chaki it’s quite natural to think of the French painter Paul Cezanne, especially his pieces that uniquely bridged impressionism to cubism, and this observation is meant in the best possible way. But rather than the rainbow of chaos alluded to by Cezanne, in Chaki we have a calm ceremony of colour which is poetically organized, consistently balanced and explored with a persistent gaze. He is a mature and long-distance painter, carrying the energies and colours of Athens, Tel Aviv and Montreal along with him on his personal journey across the messy map of art history.

He invites us to witness a not so still life, and instead they are alive with an almost animal magnetism, a presence which I suppose we must identify as the botanical soul. And they remind us again that a landscape is also a kind of still life, as is a portrait in a very real sense. Whatever their theme or format, one thing remains common to each painting: they all magically convey the palpable breath of light. ~ Excerpt from catalogue essay by Donald Brackett.

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Dawn to Dusk 1205
50 x 152 inches / 127 x 386 cm
October Light 1305
84 x 120 inches / 213 x 305 cm
October Light 1312
38 x 80 inches / 97 x 203 cm
Wildflowers 95001
60 x 48 inches / 152 x 122 cm
Makrinitsa 0839
38 x 60 inches / 97 x 152 cm
Nona 1345
12 x 12 inches / 30 x 30 cm
Nona 1346
12 x 12 inches / 30 x 30 cm
Nona 1349
14 x 12 inches / 36 x 30 cm
Nona 1350
14 x 12 inches / 36 x 30 cm
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1368
14 x 12 inches / 36 x 30 cm
Nona 1420
14 x 12 inches / 36 x 30 cm
Window 1491
38 x 30 inches / 97 x 76 cm
Passages 1426
38 x 60 inches / 97 x 152 cm
Window 1427
38 x 30 inches / 97 x 76 cm
Window 1429
38 x 30 inches / 97 x 76 cm
Passages 1433
38 x 60 inches / 97 x 152 cm
Passages 1438
38 x 76 inches / 97 x 193 cm
Passages 1439
38 x 76 inches / 97 x 193 cm
Passages 1440
38 x 60 inches / 97 x 152 cm
Nona 1453
14 x 12 inches / 36 x 30 cm
Looking Up 1456-w
14 x 12 inches / 36 x 30 cm
Passages 1462
38 x 60 inches / 97 x 152 cm
Nona 1472
14 x 12 inches / 36 x 30 cm
Blue Mountains 1485-w
12 x 14 inches / 30 x 36 cm
Yellow Flower 1486
12 x 12 inches / 30 x 30 cm
Fall Mountains 1489-w
12 x 14 inches / 30 x 36 cm
Passages 1493
38 x 80 inches / 97 x 203 cm
West 14103
38 x 60 inches / 97 x 152 cm
Blue Sky 1514
36 x 48 inches / 91 x 122 cm
October Light 1310
38 x 80 inches / 97 x 203 cm
From Hulata 14105-D
40 x 30 inches / 102 x 76 cm
Greece 1067-w
10 x 8 inches / 25 x 20 cm
Greece 1053-w
10 x 8 inches / 25 x 20 cm
Thessalonika 0856-W
10 x 8 inches / 25 x 20 cm