info-parity — YISHAY HOGESTA

Parity | Curator: Prof. Gilad Efrat
Maya Gallery, Tel-Aviv

8.7.21 – 31.7.21

Parity presents Yishay Hogesta’s exploration of painting as both surface and site, a space where form drifts between the concrete and the imagined. Working within a disciplined square format, Hogesta constructs large canvases that pulse with stains, symbols, and traces of marks that hover in delicate balance between order and chaos. His compositions recall urban fragments such as graffiti, patched walls, and accidental color fields, yet they resist resolution into clear narrative or image.

These paintings invite a kind of visual improvisation, echoing the rhythm and openness of jazz. Each shape maintains its own autonomy while participating in a larger, vibrating field. The grid becomes not a structure of control but a vessel for possibility, a framework through which fragments coexist, connect, and drift apart.

In Parity, the painter acts as both observer and experimenter, navigating between material and imagination, gesture and erasure, clarity and blur. The result is a series of dreamlike surfaces that feel both physical and intangible, where meaning is suspended and never fully captured. Hogesta’s paintings inhabit this tension, revealing the attempt to experience what cannot be experienced and to give form to the impossible within the ordinary.

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