LIORA ROSENMAN
Liora Rosenman is an Israeli artist whose work is enriched by childhood years spent in Colombia. While living abroad allowed her to absorb Latin culture and language, it also “gave her an expatriate’s perspective, teaching her to interpret the world in a new light.” Her subsequent studies at the Avni-Art-Institute in Jaffa, as well as the art school in Bat-Yam, Israel, further influenced her approach to painting.
Rosenman describes her paintings as an invitation for viewers to join her “in a journey through images, memories, places and momentous events in our lives.” She states that by “employing a bold palette of vibrant colors I conjure up intricate reflections of our world. Many of the paintings open a new window to explore the light and its influence and reflection on the wild, free forms of nature as well as the inner soul.” We perceive the windows as openings into the painter’s own soul, revealing the obscured to the viewer. Yet Rosenman also touches on the problems and difficulties present in the world today in a very daring and sober way. Her canvas is a magnifying glass pointed at modernization and the wars that affect and govern our lives. What we see are anecdotes of industrialized construction set against the wild, free forms of nature; “freight-laden ships that transport us across oceans, juxtaposed with the broken skeleton of a boat that leaves us stranded on the shore.”
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The artist attributes her message to the spirituality she embraced while studying the ancient wisdom of Kaballah. In essence, Rosenman uses Kaballistic imagery and contrasts it with aspects of modernity. Painted with oils, her piece titled “The Colours Ladder,” is composed of eleven multicolored paint cans piled towards the sky and entwined by a “ribbon of Hebrew letters bringing the wisdom from above to our Earthly plane.” The ascending ladder, which signifies man’s struggle to reach spiritual heights is juxtaposed with sacred imagery of cans and tires. The background is a joyous dance of refracted vibrant hues. Shades of orange, red, blue, green and purple reference the painting style of her adopted Colombia, with its strong artistic tradition of bright colors. The ladder on the other hand is one of Rosenman’s enduring motifs, allowing her to infuse modern materials with symbolic meaning.
Through this sort of charged imagery, Rosenman rouses our contemplation and speculation that, as she states “there can be a greater purpose to the world; that we may go through many years of life doing just the every day, but everyone, at some point, realizes there is an inner need to do something greater, to impact what is around us, and this is to get back to the original energy that we speak about in Kaballah, bringing that light into our lives.”
Liora Rosenman is a member of the Concilio Europeo dell'Arte and Israeli Artists Association. Her paintings are currently exhibited in Israel, Canada, South America , U.S.A. Her artwork is present in art collections (private and corporate) all over the world: Israel, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Spain, Portugal, Panama, Colombia, Chech Republic, Hungary and USA.
