Mosh Kashi
Mosh Kashi was born in Israel, where he currently lives and works.
The paintings of Mosh Kashi embody the anxiety of the ‘sensitive viewer’, a concept coined by
Mark Rothko in the mid-20th century. The ‘sensitive viewer’ is characterized by the viewer’s
gaze and its ability to seal a painting’s fate: if the experience does not enchant him,
if the dark and shimmering tones fail to claim his attention, he may be intrigued by the
painting’s technical virtuosity but will not feel connected to the dense and dark landscape
of Mosh Kashi on a more emotional level.
The art of Mosh Kashi
The works of the German painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)
contemplate the mysteries of the universe through moonlight and the mist of a wide sea.
Albeit, neither wearing the monk’s robe nor invigorated by religious belief, Mosh Kashi,
too, gazes directly at the enigma of light and dark, in addition, to that of growth and withering.
Mosh Kashi exhibits meticulous oil on canvas paintings,
loaded with suspense and inward concentration. The metaphoric world of Mosh Kashi
goes the distance into an undefined space of botanical imagery, gloomy fields and
nocturnal spaces. Mosh Kashi builds a world of stylized nature from thickets of
splitting branches to barren field landscapes. A series of small fields that
portray an ivory light in the core of the sky – a brief aperture – a light opening and
capturing glimpse of the great body of nature.
Mosh Kashi – Biography
The work of Mosh Kashi has been displayed in solo exhibitions,
such as: New Paintings, Cité des Arts, Paris in 1996.Recent Group exhibitions include:New Works,
Art Forum Berlin in 2005, the Minister of Education and Culture Prize for the Visual Arts
Exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2005 ,@60.art.israel.world, Judah L. Magnes Museum,
Berkley, California in 2008 and Magnes Museum, Berkley also in 2008.
Mosh Kashi has received numerous prestigious awards, amongst them:
the Cité des Arts Scholarship, Paris in 1996, the Blumenkopf Foundation Scholarship, France in
1996 and most recently the Minister of Education and Culture Prize for the Visual Arts, Israel in 2004.
