Interior – Paintings and a few Drawings

“Interior” is the first solo exhibition of the painter (Bezalel graduate) Alexander Tubis. The Exhibition presents oil paintings, sketches and works in mixed media. It combines portraits of those closest to him set in an interior surrounding with landscapes paintings of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Though Realistic, Tubis’s paintings are far from being an imitation of a photographed reality. His interests are not applied to painting as such, but to the interior substance of the paintings topics. Tubis’s choices are humble ones, pleasant and intimate while being at the same time brave and profound; despite the fact that they arouse a sense of detachment. And so, while the Art domain is packed with hurling and kicking artists, Tubis just paints the surrounding nearest to him and loved landscapes without being part of any group, without passing judgment, in total silence. Amit Cabessa, Curator

“Interiors” is the first solo exhibition of the painter Alexander Tubis. Like so many Russian immigrants artists, Tubis himself, who immigrated with his family to Israel at the age of 12, is soaked and charged with Russian culture, which its representatives are making her an inseparable from the cultural and artistic sphere in Israel.
This Exhibition presents oil paintings, sketches and works in mixed media. It combines his latest works created in the last year with works he painted during his studies at the Bezalel School for art and design. This exhibition also combines portraits of those closest to him set in an interior surrounding with landscapes of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
Though Realistic, Tubis paintings are far from being an imitation of a photographed reality. Tubis chooses to paint from Nature, by observation, which demands great skill and devotion, while keeping his true self first of all as a human being before being a painter-artist. His paintings create a new Reality, “I do not deal with documentation, the painting reflects itself on my reality, no less than my reality reflects on it” says Tubis. His interests are not applied to painting as such, but to the substance, and not to the illustrative substance, but to the interior substance of the paintings topics.
Tubis’s choices are humble ones, pleasant, intimate while at the same time being brave and profound; despite the fact that they arouse a sense of detachment. At our meetings Tobis referred to a letter sent by Nikolay Dubovskoy (1895-1915) to his wife saying: I am simple because I do not have the means to be complex”. And so while the Art domain is packed with hurling and kicking artists, Tobis just paints the surrounding nearest to him and loved landscapes without being part of any group, without passing judgment, in total silence. Dobovskoy wrote: “I speak well in the sphere of viewpoint my life had led me to.” And to that Tobis adds: ”Even in the sphere of my own viewpoint I am frequently wrong.”
Amit Cabessa, Curator