Mosh Kashi

Mosh Kashi (born in 1966 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli painter and artist. Senior Lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. In his works, Kashi raises issues that deals with painting in the contemporary era. Kashi's art has been exhibited in Israel and worldwide. He won the Young Artist Award (1994), Artistic Achievement Award (1997) and Ministry of Education (Israel) Culture and Sport Prize (2004).[1]

Mosh Kashi
Born	1966 (age 53–54) Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Education	Bretton Hall College of Education
Known for	Painting, sculpture
Website	moshkashi.com

Kashi is a contemporary pantheist that his painting study field is based on views and imagery from nature. His paintings include fields, trees and entanglement, landscape and wide open space that try to express a place of which time stops, which is timeless and space less. Kashi's paintings are not created as a single painting but are created as a series of paintings. Every painting stands by itself and in every series there's a slow and research like attendance of the chosen subject. This kind of method of work allows Kashi to investigate, analyze and accuracy.

"Kashi's works demand active, prolonged observation to gradually decipher the painter's interpretation of the subject. the works dictate the time they require. Each work invites the viewer to set an inner clock while observing it. The slow viewing process also contains an element of surprise. Kashi's works invoke contemplations; they raise doubts and quandaries, without providing answers. They strive to sharpen attention, to indicate the possibilities of the gaze, to unravel thought without stitching it together again. Making innovative, fascinating use of traditional painting techniques, Kashi does not give up the act of painting, but his work draws on insights that derive from the experience and thinking of modern and contemporary art. The poetic and metaphorical value carried by the painting alludes, on the one hand, to Mark Rothko's color fields, and on the other—to Gerhard Richter's work. The painting is thus charged with layers of time and place beyond the here-and-now". Ruthi ofek "Infinite Painterly Landscapes" [2]

"Kashi's paintings carry within them the anxiety of an encounter with the "sensitive viewer" signaled in the mid-20th century by Mark Rothko, the viewer whose gaze and insights seal a painting's fate: if the experience does not enchant him, if the dark shimmering tones fail to claim his attention, he may be astounded by the painting's technical virtuosity but will not emotionally enter Kashi's core preoccupation with landscape spaces that hedge in a dense, velvety darkness. As in the paintings of the German painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), which contemplate the mystery of the universe through moonlight and the mist of a wide sea, Kashi too, albeit neither wearing the monk's robe, nor invigorated by religious belief, gazes directly at the enigma of light and dark, growth and withering.Bygone centuries have not weakened the experience but honed its reception."[3] Tali Tamir, 'A Captive Darkness; on the work of Mosh Kashi'