Shai Azoulay | A Dwelling Down Below

Curator: Tali Ben-Nun
Feb. 24, 2018 - June 2, 2018

Early in his thirties, Shai Azoulay found God. From that point onward, there was a profound and fundamental shift in his painting – in its palette, language, and the way he paints, as well as in his attitude toward the act of painting and its contents. The inner struggle within him between the secular and the religious continues to this day, fueling his creativity. For Azoulay, the act of painting is a spiritual one in every respect, like studying Torah, and the studio is akin to a yeshiva (religious seminary): it is where the artist changes roles, dons various identities, composes stories and fables, and weaves a dreamlike and a-temporal reality.

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