Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

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