Mosh Kashi

Mosh Kashi’s paintings hold spiritual mystical elements inspired by the tradition of the sublime and the major Romantic motifs. His profound artistic practice focuses on the examination of the immensity of nature in its different aspects, both visual and mental: wild fields spread out from one horizon to the next, solitary trees in a wide barren space, great dark mountains and thickets, dark tangled forest, the rising moon, shimmering, foggy sights. All these draw invisible lines between his work and romantic modernism, like the works of Rothko and Barnett Newman as well as their ancestors of the nineteenth century in Europe. 

Kashi offers a different notion of sensitivity, a spirit of transcendental poetics that sharpens the viewer’s attention. Beyond his preoccupation with nature, his work also engages with consistent duality and mirror image. 

Kashi’s painting outlook presumes that the innocent gaze on a place or a view and its primal and savage nature, will always be charged with the viewer’s subconscious, conscious, and personal feelings. His paintings are characterized by two aspects – the sublime-Romantic and the allegorical; that is where the contemporary dimension that links the experience of the sublime-romantic with the post-modernist allegorical consciousness is manifested.

Courtesy of Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art