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Trees Will Still Remember Spring – Hanna Shahar- Global Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Trees Will Still Remember
Spring – Hanna Shahar
Curators:
Dr. Galia
Duchin Arieli and Michali Adler
Global Art Gallery
13 HaMerkaz Ba'alei Melacha
St., central Tel Aviv
Painting, for me, is akin to a touch
upon the senses…
Stepping out into nature is an experience of absorbing the landscape—listening
to the song of the trees, the silence of the mountains, the chirping of birds,
and the scent of flowers. I gather it all and carry it back with
me to the
studio.
There, the brush sings with the color and caresses the canvas, creating a renewed encounter between myself
and
nature.
For me, painting is life itself.
When I paint, nothing exists beyond the canvas, the brush, and the imagination.
In the studio, I live and breathe
color—nothing else exists beyond it.
Colors awaken in me emotions that do not find expression in everyday life.
Through color, I embark on an emotional journey whose culmination is a work
that is never truly finished.
The sea in my paintings is not merely
nature—it is a mirror of the soul.
Its סערה (storm) reflects both a personal and a
national inner turbulence.
In the sweeping brushstrokes, in the colors breaking into one another, there is
an eruption of pain, fear, and loss—but also a persistent жизненная сила, a
tenacious life force. Wave after wave.
Like the sea, we too move between
hope and despair, between darkness and light, between fracture and renewal.
The painting seeks to remind us that even within the great storm, there is
still movement, breath, and the possibility of healing.
Over the past twenty years, my hands
have sought to touch life itself, finding their way to clay and bronze—to a
world where music becomes a tangible figure and emotion solidifies into form.
My work moves between the soft and the rigid, between raw clay and eternal
bronze.
In every sculpture, I search for the
moment when matter becomes emotion. I try to capture not only the figure, but
the sound it produces.
One of the sculptures closest to my heart is that of children climbing a
mountain. I always told my children: “You don’t climb all at once.”
This sentence accompanies me in my work as well—step by step. One patch of
color after another, one touch of material, then another—until the soul is
reflected in the finished piece.
In this exhibition, I invite you into
my inner world.
I invite you to look, through my sculptures and paintings, at moments of grace
and profound love—for humanity and for the earth.
Hanna Shahar is an artist living in
Tel Aviv. She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Israel and abroad.
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