Aram Gershuni: Paintings 2004-2009

Loyalty to the visual experience and the impulse to prevent it from slipping away are the moving force of Aram Gershuni's artistic work. Keeping close to the motif that serves as his means – portrait, landscape, still life or any other image he happens upon – Gershuni holds on to the primal, fragile and almost-disappearing experience in order to try and restore its existence as a painting. "Painting", he said in an interview with Dror Burstein, "Is a lost gaze which I try to reclaim".

Aram Gershuni's painterly values are well-anchored in the medium's rich and long-standing traditions, with an almost physical link to works of masters such as Antonello da Massina and Ingres, or more contemporaray artists such as the Americam Lennart Anderson (Israel Hershberg's teacher) or the English Euan Uglow.