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Stephen Wirtz Gallery

April 29 - May 31, 2009

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49 Geary Street 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94108
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Parzoufot
Gabriel Klasmer is an Israeli artist living in London. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally, throughout his illustrious career as painter, and is known for his experimental and performance-based processes that investigate the nature of painting itself. In this new body of work, Klasmer employs an innovative painting technique of his own invention that reveals the mysterious appearances of female faces (parzoufot), which seem to appear automatically on the canvas. The faces are not of real women, but are conjured from the artists mind, a female world he has created that is influenced by images from the fashion and celebrity media, as well as the memory of faces of women he has known. These women’s faces are not only beautiful, but present intense and intelligent gazes, that also appear distant and melancholic. Klasmer’s process creates an active optical illusion that moves from negative-to-positive as the viewer engages the canvas from different angles, a visual effect that presents the possibility of painting and photography linked together.