Deal ▷ Lishma 2 by J/Y Delaunay-Israël, 2018 | Pastel Drawing

Work from the Lishma / לשמה series, in Hebrew “in his name” signifies the selfless purpose of Jewish study. Here it would be in the name of painting, of a practice all with its advents, closer to the expressions of the unconscious than to those of the ego. Escaping speeches and injunctions, making way for the silence of the works and the silence of the painting. Let yourself be carried away by what happens every day in an impromptu way without repentance or correction. Its geometry is the result of an improvisation based on the structure of the “Compositions” series. It marks the return to the work of watercolor, originally initiated when leaving the Villa Arson for the first diamonds. Gestures, lines and flat areas are applied day by day, they draw the reserves of white that carry them and integrate all the surprises, setbacks and hitches of the course. It shows the history of the “dialogue” established between geometry, free gesture and fields of color.