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Solo Exhibition by Artist Beatriz Wasserman - “Eyes Wide Open”, February 18, 2026 , Petah Tikva
“Eyes Wide Open” - When stardust, textile layers, and Israeli light merge into a single, unified creation. Solo Exhibition by Artist Beatriz Wasserman, Opening: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 | 8:00 PM at Amergad House, 32 Shacham Street, Petah Tikva, Art Consultant: Avi Barnea
In this exhibition, we
are invited into the rich inner world of artist Beatriz Wasserman, a world shaped by contrasts: between the luminous
brightness of the sea she insisted on painting as a child and the deep shadows
of loss and displacement.
Wasserman’s story begins
in Buenos Aires, in a home filled with textiles, fabrics, and layered
textures—elements that continue to inform her refined aesthetic sensibility.
Her childhood was deeply influenced by her grandmother Clara, whose warmth,
generosity, and open home provided her earliest creative inspiration. Her
grandmother’s passing left a profound emotional void—an “inner darkness,” as
the artist describes it—from which she gradually emerged through the healing
power of artistic expression.
This important solo
exhibition is far more than a collection of oil paintings. It stands as a
living testament to a life journey spanning two continents and seven decades.
Born in Argentina in 1949, Wasserman brings to her canvases the cultural legacy
of the Buenos Aires School of Fine Arts (Bellas Artes), alongside the formative
experiences of her life in Israel.
Wasserman creates a
dialogue between the familiar and the hidden, the visible and the mysterious.
She reveals just enough while allowing deeper layers to remain veiled, guiding
the viewer toward a completed work that feels both intimate and elusive.
Her paintings combine
expressive brushwork with touches of gold, vivid color palettes, and fragments
of memory woven into layered compositions. Her work reflects pure visual beauty
and authentic emotional sincerity. She works impulsively and directly, allowing
emotional currents to guide her creative process.
Her pieces resist easy
categorization. They are neither fully abstract nor traditionally figurative,
nor confined to conventional stretched canvas formats. Instead, they represent
an early stage in breaking artistic boundaries.
Within this exhibition,
memory assumes renewed meaning. Wasserman explores the act of letting go—of
both the past and personal pain—through a continuous tension between shelter
and storm, constantly constructing new emotional and experiential landscapes.
Her works are visually
captivating, intriguing, and mysterious, while maintaining aesthetic balance,
strong composition, and rhythmic continuity. Viewers are invited to navigate
between illusion and reality simultaneously, eventually arriving at a new sense
of wholeness.
Wasserman’s artistic
journey brings together several core elements:
Aesthetic Roots: From her childhood in a home dedicated to textile craftsmanship to her studio
on the third floor of an old Buenos Aires building, color and aesthetics have
always been essential to her existence.
Art Under Shadow:
During Argentina’s military dictatorship, she and her partner founded Entreacto,
a café-concert venue that became an island of creativity, music, and artistic
freedom within an atmosphere of fear and political raids.
The Israeli Journey:
From working in the apple orchards of Kibbutz Kfar Szold to demonstrating
resilience during the Yom Kippur War while living in Be’er Sheva, Israel became
a home shaped through struggle and devotion.
Wasserman herself reflects:“Painting is like spreading my wings.”
Indeed, her work reveals a constant dialogue between the desire for harmony and aesthetic order and the complexity of lived emotional reality. Her paintings represent an act of awakening—a continuous attempt to transform space into something emotionally healthier, as she once described on her birthday. Through color, she transforms trauma into beauty and memory into a living presence.
Visitors are invited to
walk through the various chapters of her life, reflected in every brushstroke,
and to discover within darkness the light the artist has always insisted on
seeking.
Exhibition Hours: Sunday – Thursday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Friday: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Closing Date: April 2,
2026
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