YOSI LUBALSKY
Israeli landscape painter graduated with B.Arch. from the School of Architecture at Tel Aviv University.
Exhibits from the year 2015 in Israel and abroad, including the Hudson Gallery in New York, La Galleria Pall Mall, London, the Okashi Art Museum in Acre Israel, the Art Market and other exhibitions in Israel.
His paintings depict the diverse landscapes of the Land of Israel in the Jezreel Valley and the North, using oil techniques on large-scale canvases, along with water colour and charcoal paintings that depict the natural expanses of the region, including Nahalal, Kfar Yehoshua, and Haifa.
His work is defined as “patriotic art” that portrays the beautiful and good land of Israel.
YOSI LUBALSKY on Art Market Magazine
A connection to the roots of Israel and the subject of nature is not coincidental, as the patterns of images and memories are rooted from early childhood in the city of Hadera, living a rural environment where there were natural spaces where construction momentum was not yet developed like today.
In his paintings he expresses a yearning for nature from memory patterns in the landscape, the eucalyptus trees, the orchards, the formation and change of which is poured onto the canvas. Nature is used as an anchor for the idealization of the beautiful and rooted Land of Israel, the work of the land, the smells of colors and experiences. All these symbols are expressing patriotism and love for the Land of Israel.
As part of his training in architecture, he participated in architectural drawing courses, documentation and painting of buildings.
In his studies, he always sought the connection between art and architecture, which was expressed in his works.
The students of architecture and practice in the field gave him the tools and understanding of composition in space, the ability to look deeply at the spaces and relations between them.
The profession of architecture did not satisfy the instinct of the bacterium of painting that had been embedded since his early childhood, which has gained considerable significance in the last decade.
“Harvest in the Jezreel Valley” 2017
Oil on canvas, signed 120X90 cm
You get up early and suddenly see an orchard or a plowed field, hay cubes, rushing to collect photographs from places or sketch sketches. I tried to understand why I had the attraction to these places, and then I understood, thanks to quoting Shaul Tchernikhovsky’s poem
A person, a landscape pattern from his home.
“The generous tree” 2014.
Oil on canvas, signed. 120X90 cm
I understood that I choose subconscious patterns from the past from my hometown Hadera, which take meaning into the present patterns in the face of the expanses of the Jezreel Valley today and pour the subjects on the canvas.
In my work I use precise images of field landscapes, and create the “spirit of Israel of the past”. My color and technique assumptions create a nostalgic “story” that connects to each of us.
My perception of nature is expressed in large paintings that the sense of observation will be as similar as possible to a personal experience on a human scale. The vanishing point and the perspective that are characteristic of the paintings draw us inward as a kind of magnet that is difficult to distract from the horizon.
As an architect and choreographer, I build the scenes of nature that are identified with the movement and dance texts, and expressions in my paintings are an inseparable part of the work, and are characterized by the selection of trees from the formal appearance and their position on the ground and in the tendon movements that characterize the fabric of the race. The whole experience of looking at my paintings brings viewers to a nostalgic place, a memory pattern of an individual homeland landscape and the longing to return to the landscape in time. “
