Self Portrait with Stones, 2006, oil on canvas, 80 x 65 cm, courtesy of the artist and Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, photo: Meidad Suchowolski
Netally Schlosser
Netally Schlosser‘s painted portraits are often distorted and disrupted, but it is her compassionate viewpoint that creates the grotesque gesture. The paintings' material surface seem to dictate the figures' deviant psychology, reflected externally as a kind of spasm. Schlosser‘s works feature fantastical figures with ridiculous facial expressions and body language. The conflict between the rational and the emotional - one of the characteristics of the grotesque - as well as different kinds of hysteria, madness, pain, grief and disease are all translated in these works into diverse deformations, completely dissipating the distinction between mind and body, inside and outside, conscious and unconscious.
