"Self-Portrait", 1999 (fragment) Coal on paper, 29 x 21 cm

Address for letters: Leonid Balaklav, 2 Bossem St. , Apt. 45, Jerusalem 93848, Israel Phone: 972 - 2 - 645-06-03 Cellular: 972 - 68 - 54-52-83 You are welcome to contact the artist and send any suggestions or questions to: balaclav@nm.ru Welcome to Leonid Balaklav gallery

From the book "Leonid Balaklav: The Face of the Light":

      "We thus have here a painter whose kitchen is nourished by the spirit of Western painting, whose roots are in Rome and the Baroque, and whose upper branches are the early figurative Modernism between Paris and Eastern Europe. We may say, therefore: a painter who is liberated from the pressures of contemporaneity and its fashions, in that his discourse is not with the innovations of language, but with his soul and with the prison of his body. And we may also say: a Jewish painter (and not because of his return to religious observance): a painter who blends aesthetics and ethics, a painter who melts material (image) into spirit, and even answers, unknowingly, to the definition "the Judaization of forms" (Valdemar George) of the Parisian Jewish School: a metamorphosis and spiritualization of reality by dipping it into the pained emotion of the artist."

Gideon Friedlander Ofrat,
Museum of Art Ein Harod, 2002

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