Curators: Etti Nussbaum and Galit Oren

In the dining room of Kibbutz Shamir

12.9.2014 – 12.11.2014

Opening hours: The exhibition is open to the public 7 days a week In recent years, Moshe Kagan moved with his wife Sally to the “Savyon” nursing home, where he continued to paint every day.
Whether he had company or was alone, you could see him sitting at the table, holding a brush and magic markers, entirely absorbed in his drawings. With delicate lines and endless patience, he drew minuscule details, which came together and resulted in a magical landscape: Lake Kinneret, Mount Tabor, Hula Valley, children playing by the water, fruit in a bowl.
In his new paintings, he combined watercolor with magic markers, creating a new genre.
The subjects of his paintings were nature and its landscapes, still life, and very few people. Yet nevertheless, there was a strong sense of renewal and freshness, as if his point of view on the landscape had changed: adulthood combined with childhood.
The lines, so familiar from his drawings, assume here a spectacular color, which give his paintings a cheerful, welcoming optimism, combined with a new complexity. There are several kinds of interactions between the bright lines of the markers and the transparent stains of the watercolors: there are the strong and clear lines of the markers, which add tone, and as such, define and border the aquatic aquarelle lakes. All this, without compromising the innocent rustic quality of the painting.
And there are also the many pointillist dots, which together with the watercolors create an almost impressionistic effect: shadow and light, still life and breathing nature, people and nature, hills and lakes – it seems as though everything was created from the same “beginning” of the division of colors and the formation of textures: the fruit in the bowl next to the ornamental wallpaper, the Sea of Galilee and the reflection of the hills surrounding it – everything made from the same material, as though projecting many faces of the same thing.
Dots of color create a sense of “zoom in”, like an attempt to disassemble the image into tiny pixelated patterns and then reassemble them to a complete picture with all its parts.
In these paintings, one can see that Moshe’s creativity never stopped, not for one minute. Even in his golden years, Moshe Kagan, the man and artist, continued to reinvent himself.