The Landscapes Cycle 1979 - 1982

The paintings of this cycle are carried out with enamel and acryl colors, and extensive work with lacquer and various chalks. Essentially this cycle addresses painting-drawing as a marking-designating device. In that sense, it holds some sorts of mapping characteristics; its materials are schemes of landscapes, and the human and animal body, the animal is mostly that of a donkey corpse. The cycle formats are panoramic, narrow and especially elongated. The cycle preoccupies mainly with the rephrasing of earlier compositional issues from the TEL-HAI cycle, the CUT and the FRAGMENT. Leaving the former focal centered composition it structures a non-focal amorphic space with a wandering focal point of view, its figures ordered preferably 'one next to the other', and 'one after the other' in a spread-to-edge manner, and/or few very defined separate layers ('transparent'). The cycle colors are highly diluted and muddy, it presents a radical minimalization of the notion of the layer and painterly stratification. The colors are set mostly in complementary pairs: red-green, black-white, yellow-purple etc'.