"Send Me Silence" – Solo Exhibition of Ori Beanstock at Global Art Gallery, Opening – April 26 at 12:00 PM Until May 24. Curators: Dr. Galia Duchin Arieli and Michali Adler
Send me silence, good, protected", Send me silence from a cloud, Send me mechanical silence to hear silence not from here Send me silence in a box From a distant land. “ "Send Me Silence" - Yona Wallach
"Send Me Silence" precisely describes my daily existence. I seek silence amidst the noise of everyday life. I dedicate half of my day, from morning until noon, to creating in my studio, isolated from the world. My creation is filled with passion and an internal journey, and it needs silence like oxygen. In the studio, I find sanity and balance. The works in this exhibition invite the viewer to look inward and find, along with the artist, silence and balance.
"I mainly work with oil paints, occasionally incorporating building materials like Celotex, which adheres to the canvas and provides a stone-wall texture. After years of experimenting with various techniques and styles, I find that the combination of the roughness of the palette knife with the delicacy of a brush and oil paints allows me to achieve a wider range and more diverse expression."
Ori Beanstock has always painted and played music. For many years, he was primarily focused on music. He was one of the founders of the groundbreaking band Esta, performing with them on tours around the world Beanstock. played all types of guitars, including Eight String and Electric Guitars, Quarter Tone, Bouzouki, Jumbush, and Suz. Together with the band members, they created a global sound that had never been heard before. The band collaborated with numerous artists in Israel and abroad and was active from 1989 to 2011.
In the 1990s, while living in New York, Beanstock returned to painting more intensively, spending much time at nude drawing sessions at the Art Students League on 57th Street in Manhattan. His connection to music as a painter was immediate. According to him, when he hears music, he envisions scenes that were initially translated into abstract paintings. As his artistic path developed, the connection between music and painting became more structural, exploring colors and tones that resonate with sounds and textures of music. This led his paintings to take on a more representational form.
"I see the object, I depict it on the canvas, and add something fantastic to it."
This fantastical element appears in both his portraits and landscapes. What are the figures on the canvas thinking? What does the future hold for them? In just a moment, they might whisper their secret to the viewer. His landscapes—timeless, fantastical sceneries—seem as if they were taken from a Shakespearean play. What lies hidden in the depths of the forest? Could it be Puck from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, about to sprinkle his magic potion on the eyes of the sleeping figures, causing them to fall in love?
"In the past, I worked very intuitively, painting in a free-flowing manner on the canvas. Today, I plan more. I find inspiration in fascinating people and landscapes that I photograph extensively. Then, I select moments in the photos that I recognize as ones I want to paint. When painting landscapes, I feel a continuous sense of calm. When painting portraits, I am much more alert, sometimes even agitated, as I sense the person emerging before me. The more I succeed in capturing and expressing their essence, the more excited I become—it’s a kind of happiness."
Ori Beanstock's art defies categorization. It is a search for simplicity while simultaneously delving into emotions and what arises in the imagination of both the viewer and the artist. It creates a direct, wordless dialogue between them, allowing for a deep gaze into the essence of the painting.
