Uriel Silberstein

For many years now I have been involved in the issues of painting as a contemporary medium for making art. Far from being a dead tradition painting has re-invented itself to consolidate its importance in art history. So it’s not too far out to state that painting still is a much relevant media for contemporary art. Everything’s been done and re-done, so everything is allowed. It’s a question of finding one’s singularity among the many forms of seeing in today’s contemporary world.

I have been struggling with some of the most challenging notions in painting today. The search for an image. Confronting the compound relations between image and action, building and deconstruncting an image where the issue itself becomes the painting. Through out my painting practice I have turned to the mass media to find images that I can work with. I was always interested in the nature of an image and wether it could be transformed and decomposed into something new: a painting.

I would look for this images on the web or take them myself most of the times. The image goes through a transformation during the painting process: it grows away from its essence as I make decisions regarding form, color and composition. While I’m painting my own images ...

- MFA Program, School of Visual Arts, NYC, 2013-2014.
- BFA Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, 2008-2012.
- Erasmus Program at Escola Massana, Barcelona, 2010/2011.
- Liri Itzjaki Workshop, Sde Varburg, Israel, 2008
- Taller Jorge Casteran, Montevideo, 2006/2007/2013.
- Historia del Arte Emma Sanguinetti, Montevideo, 2006/2007.
- Taller de Montevideo, Uruguay,1992-1998.

- Group Show, Retrospectiva KIOSCO, CCE, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2017.
- Solo Show, Centro Tractatus, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2016.
- Group Show, KIOSCO, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2013.
- Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, NYC, 2013.
- BFA Group Show, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, 2012.
- Group Show, Painting Camp, Ramle, Israel, 2012.
- Group Show, Uruguayan Artist in Israel Association, Givataym Theatre, Israel, 2011 and 2009.