Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Back to Basics program / SEPTEMBER 2022<br />
Hilla Spitzer<br />
Israel<br />
www.hillaspitzer.com<br />
About<br />
In a slow, exploratory and intuitive process, I connect the<br />
fragments that make up the pictorial image. In this way, I give<br />
deep meaning and attention to the painting process itself,<br />
and less to the final result, that is, the painting process is<br />
the basis of the work, and not the pursuit of a predetermined<br />
image. In fact, the painting does not begin and does not end<br />
with a complete image, but is built slowly, during the act of<br />
painting.<br />
I came to paint trees<br />
I came to <strong>Arteles</strong> to paint trees. When I arrived I got a studio<br />
space with a beautiful view, I started a morning routine of<br />
waking up every morning and right away going to my space<br />
to paint the trees. I had a very intense urge to get out of bad<br />
and go paint. I new I had only one month with those trees and<br />
I felt like I had to use every minute I have to study them.<br />
The finished result in the paintings is an expression of pictorial<br />
processes and inventions, “”mistakes””, investigations of<br />
color, texture and movements of an image that is not realistic<br />
and that is not mimetic. At first glance, certain details can be<br />
identified in the painting; A tree trunk, a bench, a building,<br />
a hill, a sunbeam. These are placed on the painting surface<br />
after undergoing an interpretive and abstract process. In this<br />
way, the final image is built - similar to the traditional process<br />
- from pictorial layers, but these do not cover each other in<br />
a patchy-linear manner that hides what was there before,<br />
but rather “”celebrates”” the experiment and questioning<br />
through the expansion of the painting in a linear - infinite<br />
manner while potentially offering The painting to be painted<br />
forever.