Magic realism for peace
By David Boskovich
I try to make contact with the object I am interested in. By touching the paint, I am sucked into the rhythm and movement of my work. The traditional approach in my painting is vital to understanding the object I’ve chosen; during this process, I gain more insight into the subject as such. Relying on my drawings and snapshots, I am guided by my memory and imagination. Working simultaneously in different formats, I start my paintings with a kind of physical aggression, giving way to unequal treatment of form and material. I later return to them employing a more specific and softer approach, a process that gives the image a more open and realistic look. I am profoundly fascinated by the medium of color, presenting its rich diversity, its ever-changing combinations of shadings and color hues. Just as the orchestration of a musical work is integral to its form, content, and mood, so is the color in my paintings integral to the special meaning within the context of my work. I start painting when the image is already in my head, it is clear to me that the image must have relevance, which I find within myself. When I draw from a photograph, even if only by copying I make it less banal, I give it a refined and unique shape of my own. The process of withdrawal and merging between different natural and artificial materials stimulates my imagination to produce mixed techniques so that the subject, form, and material blend together and form a different reality on the canvas. Literature, the music of different kinds, the human aspect of our being, urban landscapes and the beauty of nature, the surroundings in which we live, all these enrich the source of inspiration for my paintings.
About the Artist
David Boskovich
David Boskovich is an Israeli artist and teacher with over 40 years of experience in the fine art of painting and 20 years of experience in the art of teaching. David was born in Israel, earned a degree in Fine Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, continued his education at The University of Pennsylvania, and honed his skills of painting Magical realism under the Maestro Ernst Fuchs in Monte Carlo & Vienna by learning the full range of bright, shimmering colors that resulted from mixed oil-glazed techniques with tempera. For the past 40 years, His works were displayed in many museums, galleries exhibitions both in Israel and the world. His paintings are characterized by a very striking intensity of bright color that has diluted, partially opaque layers, creating a space between colors and sometimes revealing a certain amount of total surface colors. In his works, the biographical journey around images often exists as starting points for the thematic construction of works, which deal with different identities, the idea of love, and the process of growing up and aging. Currently, his works focus on taking photos while walking in Tel Aviv, distorting these photographs, and drawing from Life to arrive at an image of pictorial quality and processing different snapshots of overlocked objects into reality on another level, which Enables magical realism.