Dimensions: 70 x 38.5 cm (clear frame)
Signed at the top: 'Yakov Feldman'
Biography
Yakov Feldman was born into a Jewish family in Vitebsk, Belarus. At the age of 19, he began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts there. During his studies, he exhibited his works in group exhibitions in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Vitebsk. After graduating in 1990, he immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. Today he shows his works in galleries around the world, including Tel Aviv, Paris, London and Los Angeles. The exhibition that was his most successful to date took place in 2007 at the Great Synagogue on Long Island in the United States. In his works, the artist often combines symbols known from Jewish iconography. Yakov Feldman's paintings have a very contemporary character, but the artist also often reaches back to the patterns and aesthetics of the early Renaissance. His compositions are on the borderline between surrealism and symbolism with elements of realistic painting, which is evident in details such as faces, hands or elements of costumes. The artist readily draws on aesthetics familiar to him from the works of Giotto or Jan Van Eyck, as well as Byzantine-Ruthenian patterns.
