Artists

HADASS SHLAGMAN

I was born in Tel Aviv. My father painted, from him I got the ability, the talent and from my mother the eye. My first experience as an artist was with photography in the London College of Printing, with a solo exhibition at the Photographers Gallery, London 1972.
I left photography for Transcendental Meditation and for the following 10 years I taught the TM technique to 1500 people in Tel Aviv.

In early 80s, in California I started painting on thick industrial black tar paper and developed my unique personal painting technique of scratching and deep etching, creating rich varied surface that connects me to the earth, to primal existence of nature’s harmony.
My paintings express my life in a tribal primitive expressive somewhat surrealistic style. Animistic culture of tribal people is part of my visual world where objects and mysterious creatures live with me in charming fantasy in a digital world and virtual reality.

In this series I use the architecture of the famous renaissance architect Andrea Palladio who lived during the sixteen century in Vicenza, north of Italy. Aristocratic Venetian families entrusted him with the task of building palaces churches and country villas modelling on principles and motifs of beauty and harmony.

For me Palladio’s great works project peace and safety as opposed to the present dynamic climate of the world and particularly that of Israel. Experiencing daily ballistic rockets meant to be falling on our heads, daily threats of missiles attacks, we all dream of peace and safety. These I find in Palladio’s buildings.