Yachin Kochba's Art Exhibition

Red Line, an exhibition by Yachin Kochba.

I am proud to host the exhibition of Yachin Kochba, a friend and an artist, at my Virtual Gallery. Here are ten of Yachin canvases, a part of the whole exhibition that took place at The Kibbutz Art Gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel, till the end of June 2001. A beautiful catalog accompanied the show.

Most of the canvases are large scale, very clean, a craftsman's work, you don't see the marks of the brush, it gives the impression of a glass surface, the viewer enters a quite, peaceful and a meditative state of mind. One can call these works spiritual paintings.

These paintings belong to the tradition of " Color Fields" , " Grid" , and " Minimalist" Art.

Here is an extract from the article Ms. Tali Tamir wrote for the catalog of the exhibition at the Kibbutz Art Gallery: " Sisyphean labor, ceaselessly repeating a foreknown, pre - dictated course, never desisting, characterizes yachin Kochba's painterly practice. " I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain!, " Albert camus challenges his readers at the end of " The Myth of Sisyphus ", " One always finds one's burden again ". Unaware of the underlying Literary - Philosophical metaphor, Kochba yields to the human instinct of which camus has spoken, likewise finding his burden again - the heavy, total weight of early Modernism, which strives for the vanishing point, where fullness and emptiness converge and become a single entity. "