The extensive exhibition of the painter Meni Salama spreads over two decades of his work. The Hebrew name of the exhibition \u2013 \u05d6.\u05db.\u05e8 \u2013 has a dual meaning of both masculine and memory.
\nMeni Salama usually utilizes surfaces that are \u2018abandoned\u2019 \u2013 such as shelves, kitchen doors, wooden or metal boards and worn out book covers. He paints with great sensitivity, giving room and respecting the traces of the previous lives of these surfaces, while maintaining a dialogue between his own life or inner world and the sediments or finger prints of their past.
\nSalama is an Israeli painter. The landscape of local being, the fragility of existence and fear of death, find their expression in symbols and contents that appear and fade away in his works.
\nAs an excellent painter, having a rare gift to lift a pencil and let the painting absorb its might, his work is poetic, purified and economical. His small scale drawing also exemplifies a choice of intimacy that invites the viewer to approach closer to the delicate, painful tissues of our lives.
\nThe male, expected to respond in one of two options: \u201cfight or flight\u201d, selects \u201cflight\u201d in this exhibition \u2013 evading confrontation. Escaping from the danger of death, he surrenders to his lust for life. The skeleton and skull, repeatedly re-appearing in Salama\u2019s work, represent the male who tries to renounce the characteristics of his identity as a \u201cman of valour\u201d.<\/p>\n
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