Gershon Iskowitz shows at Galerie Samuel Lallouz

Friday, 02 November 2007 00:04

Montreal, Que. – Gershon Iskowitz’s watercolours will be exhibited at Galerie Samuel Lallouz from November 8 through December 29, 2007. The opening will be on Thursday, November 8 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. All are welcome.

Polish-born Canadian artist Gershon Iskowitz (1921–1988) is one of Canada's most important expressionist painters, and one of the founders and key players in international modernism. He began his painting career in Canada in 1949 after surviving four years internment at the Auschwitz and Buchenwald death camps during World War II. While he achieved widespread fame with his large paintings, he often worked in the medium of watercolour. The gallery will show approximately fifty of the artist’s majestic watercolours.

In the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, critic James D. Campbell says: “As one looks at the series of watercolours dating from 1977 and 1978, one cannot help but feel their singular vivacity. They are imbued with a sense of primal life force, affirmation, endurance, even transcendence. Simply put, we are swept away.”

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