From Color to Color

Jorge Cabeceiras presents a small assortment from an extremely large corpus of works about Jerusalem. From portraits of random people to television characters, he paints daily at the places that are walking distance from his house –Sacker Park, Mahane Yehuda Market and Bezalel Street. He names this triangle the “eternal triangle”.

For Cabeceiras, color is the language of painting, his words, his main subject to be examined again and again. The color creates the true dialogue between the place or the person he paints and his feelings towards them. The places and portraits are only a “way station” to reaching the right color. Cabeceiras claims his influences range from da Vinci to Damien Hirst, as well as colorful children’s books. He uses a painter’s knife to create “thick color” in his paintings. The meaning is built from hue to hue, by his relation to the people and places he paints. Thus, the color builds his world, and like a landmark, defines his place in the world, where he belongs, like a puzzle leading him, piece after piece to the hue his eye is seeking.