Culture
Ami Wallach - painter and photographer with new exsbition at Global Art Gallery .30.12.25 – 31.1.26
The Dreamcatcher – Ami
Wallach
Dr. Galia Duchin Arieli ! Michali Adler
Global
Art Gallery
Artis Ami Wallach, born in Kibbutz Mishmar Ha’emek, is a
photographer/painter—or rather, a painter/photographer. “I am not a
photographer. I am a painter, and my brush is the camera, with which I don’t
document reality but take it and dress it differently.”
Ami Wallach uncovers entire worlds within the everyday sights surrounding him. The familiar kibbutz
environment
functions for him as a vast, ever-changing Rorschach blot, composed of
countless tiny details that merge through the brush-camera into endless images,
forming works painted/photographed by an artist’s hand on canvas. Abandoned
objects in a second-hand storage room, coffee residue left in crumpled paper
cups, bags peeking out of a trash bin alongside a tree trunk, reflections of
sunlight on a roof or floor, an overgrown orchard covered with netting, a red
factory floor strewn with colorful scraps—his immediate surroundings are the
raw material for his art. Through Wallach brush-camera, this raw material gains
new life.
He explains: “I search for that
‘something’ that generates something different, and that is what I photograph.”
When Wallach discovers that “something,” he observes it and
captures it immediately with the iPhone camera that is always with him. The
photograph is taken with great sensitivity and sharpness that allow for close
attention to detail. The processing of the image is done on a computer using a
simple Photoshop program. With a “zoom-in,” he selects a segment, detaches it
from its context, and then the magic begins. The color tones dissolve into each
other, creating drips and fades through which Wallach contemplates the illusory
nature of reality. The photographic images slowly dissipate and open themselves
to continual transformation.
Wallach subjects the images to a
process of analysis, in which forms open and merge with one another and with
the empty space surrounding them. He does not view the object from one single
point of view but instead breaks it down and presents multiple perspectives
simultaneously. At the end of the process, that “something” emerges—composed of
shapes, symbols, and colors whose internal relationships create a compositional
balance that forms a complete whole.
At first glance, his works appear abstract, yet upon deeper viewing, human ideas and narrative images
become
apparent, echoing visual languages that move across time—from cave paintings to
the twentieth century and the works of Paul Klee. As he says: “I take reality
and give it a different attire.”
Ami Wallach’s art challenges familiar
perception, capturing the invisible and granting the photographed images a
subtle, elusive artistic quality that only an artist’s eye can perceive. The
photographs/paintings in the exhibition Dreamcatcher open a door to a
world and an interpretation different from what the eye initially sees,
allowing what we thought we saw to transform.
“Dream
Cacher” - Ami Wallach 30.12.25 – 31.1.26
Opening
– 3.1.26
Global
Art Gallery
Merkaz
Baaley Melacha 13 Tel Aviv
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