A little over a year ago I had an exhibition in the iconic Haifa gallery "Step Inn". It's a one man's labor of love to create a ripple effect in the run-down 'hood of ours, located right in the middle of the stairs leading from us to Lower City.
The gallery opens for short lived pop-up exhibitions spanning three days only, and sometimes hosts other events on the stairs such as artisan market or a green day in which people plant some shrubs and flowers along the stairs. There are also sporadic movie screenings.
The space is special, tiny and cave-like, as can be seen in the photo below.
The owner, Joseph Cory, is an eco-architect who works with sustainables. A man with vision and great energy and optimism. And he thought it would be perfect to show my round panels, mostly on plywood and some other mysterious materials here and there. The exhibition was lovely. Joseph has the magic and imagination to recreate the gallery for every new exhibition, and it worked this time as well.
We chose 7 works, as the works are somewhat large and the space small it was just enough.
Most of them are sgraffito/engraved onto the plywood, two were oil paintings.
And as you entered the gallery it looked like stars of the solar system floating in the air ever so gracefully.
I would certainly like to continue making large round panels, but they do take up a lot of space in my little apartment/studio and I hardly ever hang or show any of them to my visitors.
One work I made in haste didn't get to be included in the show because I found it a little too different:
It's actually very similar to a painting on ordinary canvas that I left behind in New York.
