Odon Wagner Contemporary invites you to experience our highly anticipated 8th solo exhibition for internationally renowned artist, Yehouda Chaki.

“Chaki is a mature and long-distance painter, carrying the energies and colours of Athens, Tel Aviv and Montreal along with him on his personal journey across the messy map of art history. At first glance loosely ordered, Chaki's works are actually rigorously designed to internalize the outward sensations arriving at the painter’s eye and to systematically communicate them to the viewer’s eyes. He does this by employing a riot of colour but not a disordered riot, rather a kind of stately procession through his perception of light, which he shares with us using a consummate skill honed over many years as a practitioner of painted poems.

He invites us to witness a not so still life, and instead they are alive with an almost animal magnetism, a presence which I suppose we must identify as the botanical soul. And they remind us again that a landscape is also a kind of still life, as is a portrait in a very real sense. But whichever motif he chooses to render, he often seems to combine all four (portrait, still life, landscape and abstract) in a single painting.

Whatever their theme or format, one thing remains common to each painting: they all magically convey the palpable breath of light. -Excerpt from catalogue essay by Donald Brackett.

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 11, from 6-9pm. The artist will be in attendance.

Exhibition runs June 11 - July 4, 2015