Grey Zone | Eldar Farber

Past

Aug 6

June 27th - August 16th, 2024

In a new series of paintings, Eldar Farber explores a new direction: familiar themes – landscape paintings devoid of people, clouds, and earth – but this time from a monochromatic angle, in black and white. Black and white painting inherently possesses a nostalgic romantic quality, benefiting from the limitation and allowing a different view and aesthetic undisturbed by color.

Farber's creative process is deeply intertwined with the changing qualities of light. Unlike his usual method, Farber captured the paintings in color and then converted them to grayscale to achieve the desired tonal scale. This process offers a glimpse into Farber's fascination with the interplay of light and color.

The exhibition also includes a few points of color to achieve interactions: the color works enhance the monochromatic and vice versa.

The name of the exhibition, "Grey Area," indeed refers to the dominant black-and-white in the paintings, but nowadays, the primary connotation of the term as a 'twilight zone of war' gains renewed significance: on one hand, Farber deals with formalist questions of painting, and on the other hand – although much of the work was done before – it seems that since October 7th, the war has taken over the image, raising the question of how to approach art in general and painting in particular, especially in black and white paintings.