Moshé Elimelech
As with any traditional pictorial work rendered with pigment on an absorptive surface, the watercolors are unique, handmade, and immutable. They apply visual sensibilities to an intimate realm of fantasy and interpretation. For every purely geometric composition rendered in watercolor, stylized elements of landscape and/or cityscape appear, describing in pictorial shorthand a charmed world of nuanced atmosphere and simplified objects.
The non-referential watercolors partake no less in this nuance and simplification. But they are hardly simple, and reflect the same kind of formal ordering displayed in the Arrangements and the installations. The watercolors reveal a colorful stratum that suggests geological cross-sections. Meanwhile, an intricate rain of small lines, marks and geometric shapes appears in every one of these images, abstract or representational, creating an optical sensation that works counterpoint to the horizontal striations.
