DITA JACOBOVITZ | POETIC LANDSCAPES

DITA JACOBOVITZ | POETIC LANDSCAPES

“Most of my landscape paintings are from my Residential area and from north Italy.
I use various techniques, but mostly Oil on canvas.
I decided several years ago that I will not try to reach the reality;
I am trying to put the colors and shapes as I view them; sometimes, the place is the exactly the same spot,
but the artworks are so different.”
– Dita Jacobovitz

I was born in 1962 in Israel. My father was born in Belgium, and my mother in Denmark. I went to the Artists House during my childhood. I am married and a mother of three. These years, we have been living in Nofit, a small village in the north of Israel. I have a BA in computer science.

Most of my landscape paintings are from my Residential area and from north Italy. I use various techniques, but mostly Oil on canvas. I decided several years ago that I will not try to reach the reality; I am trying to put the colors and shapes as I view them; sometimes, the place is the exactly the same spot, but the artworks are so different.

The landscape I observe changes. I keep in my memory and spell it out like an archived story.
It is like a magnet that keeps me on this endless trail.

As my Italian curator from one of the finest museums in Italy wrote about my work:

“The artist works in the field of figurative art, favoring the landscape as an ideal expressive form with which to present his poetry. The style is refined and essential; the landscapes are simple and, therefore, very elegant, recalling the works of the Tuscan Macchiaoli both in the colors and in the treatment of the backgrounds.
The gentle degradation of the Middle Eastern hills creates suspended atmospheres; the details are left out to give space to colors and their nuances. Although the reference to reality is very clear, we must consider these paintings as a memorial landscape.
We are not faced with a photograph but with an image strongly influenced by the artist’s personal feelings. An image that has undergone a distortion due to the passage through the artist’s memory is not limited only to a natural transfiguration, but also to enrich with a new perspective dimension a sort of the fifth dimension, the one inspired by emotional introspection.
This procedure makes personal works able to reach the viewer more effectively.
Pre simplifying is as if we were looking at a landscape familiar to us through the lenses of a pair of sunglasses. These lenses are nothing more than our moods that come to the surface through that typical repackage memory mechanism.
Dita Jacobovitz fills the reality of poetry urges us to go beyond opening our hearts without fear and without worries.”
My painting courses were in Civita Castellana, the Hirschberg JSS Art School in Italy with Sigal Tsabari, and attending Aram Gershoni’s master class in Tel Aviv for 2 years.
My website can show that it is indeed an ongoing process. During the last year, I have a printed catalog of selected artwork.
Lately, I was accepted to be a member of the Circle Foundation.
In 2019 I received a membership in the ‘GOLD LIST’ – Special Edition, Featuring a selected group of Top contemporary Artists of Today published by the International Art Market Magazine.

Read the full article on Art Market Magazine Issue #52