FREEDOM FROM THE PENDULUM OF SENSES
“Natan Cooper brings together characters drawn in simple lines that leave hollow figures floating above a backdrop to this movie called Life.
As disenfranchised from the background, the character seeks freedom from the pendulum of senses, nature, and a meeting of two states of consciousness.”
Natan Cooper, Born in Tel Aviv, Israel (b. 1963), from an early age, he became interested in design and painting. He began refining his craft while working in some of the most prominent graphic design studios in Tel Aviv and concentrating on painting images of urban life and its inhabitants.
He completed his formal art studies in 1982 from the American Institute of Art, studied with the Master painter Isaac Holtz. Natan traveled and studied in America and Australia. While living in Australia, he opened an art gallery and a studio. During that time, his personal art was abstract, while at the same time creating designs for television shows in Melbourne.
In 2019, Natan Cooper was selected as the Gold List award-winning, and his work has been featured in the exciting Top Contemporary Artist of Today Gold List Special Edition #5 for promising talent by the international “Art Market Magazine.
Natan’s creative process begins with classic realistic painting, after years of drawing (from childhood) he miraculously found himself drawing perfect hyper-realistic characters with no
advances and learning phases, at a peak point of achievement (in his opinion) of technique and polish, The question arose where he was with all the impressive perfect images, after years of distorting and stripping the realistic style – Natan left with a simple line with no details or descriptions, a clean line attuned to inner feelings of hidden desire (a line of hope, he says).
He brings together characters drawn in simple lines that leave hollow figures floating above a backdrop to this movie called Life. As disenfranchised from the background, the character seeks freedom from the pendulum of senses, nature, and a meeting of two states of consciousness.
The background is as projected from the thought (as you can say – what man thinks that is where he’s at) as opposed to line figures that reflect real hidden desire.
Intrigued by various visual ideas, different techniques, refers to painting as a show, not compromising the level of excitement, wooing the same point where the painting begins to a kind of spiritual presence that radiates and reaches the observer’s heart. Natan aspires that painting should not remain as a color material on canvas;
According to Cooper, the combination of
balance and movement gives birth to a truly spiritual layer; electricity is generated, so painting is not just an object to be seen and enjoyed by all its components.
Topics that inspire Natan’s creation are the person facing the world, mental states, and states of consciousness.
Natan has experimented with great success in a variety of areas related to visual arts such as product design, graphics, stage setting, and stage studios, book illustrations and scrolls, classic painting hyper-realism, Judaica, and more.
Contemporary art is the most authentic tool in which he expresses his point of view of the world.
Currently, Natan is exhibiting his artwork at Ayelet Booker Gallery in Tel Aviv, George 5 Gallery in Jerusalem, Judaica art exchange Gallery in Miami Florida, A&E fine art gallery N.J and The Bo Gallery in Lakewood N.J.
Read the full Article on Art Market Magazine Issue #47
