1 dec. 2022  - 31 dec. 2022
Rhythm Unseen
Rothschild 49
Art Gallery - Tel Aviv
Experimental abstract art
David Guez’s works are complex worlds
David Guez’s works are complex worlds, the result of visionary flashes and sudden revelations memorialized upon an untouched canvas. His large-scale gestural paintings balance reason and passion, employing a unique integration of various elements including repetition, texture and balance to create a distinct visual language that transcends time and place.
Emotional abstract art
The artist conveys nuanced emotion
The artist conveys nuanced emotion through energetic and painterly movement. He activates his canvas with dynamic textures, applying repeating geometric marks created through an impasto application technique. Either monochrome or comprising juxtaposed hues, his rhythmic surfaces evoke both natural phenomena and an otherworldly energy, with his blended layers of paint producing a striking tension between foreground and background. The colored surfaces both conceal and reveal, resulting in abstract work that nevertheless suggests an underlying narrative, ultimately inviting viewers to look deeper within the spaces of the in-between.
Conceptual painting
The materiality of the composition's irregular surface
The materiality of the composition's irregular surface – an expulsion of spiritual and physical energy – echoes the disruption of global rhythms. Guez’s experimentations investigate unknown territories and mental landscapes arising from a restless unconscious and translate into a highly aesthetic visual synthesis. His color choices appear as decisions belonging to a covert poet, who composes a soliloquy arranged through alternations of solids and voids melding together to create a physical symphony. His works convey a deafening and expressive force while simultaneously emphasizing a meticulous and orderly cadence. 
Abstract oil painting
Attempt to break through a fragmented landscape
The conception of Guez’s work can be described as an attempt to break through a fragmented landscape, in which specific brushstrokes become a small presence in the background, a distant metaphor within a heavily articulated framework. Guez will then at times introduce disruption with porous boundaries emphasizing an indefinable mass of dissolved micro-universes, suggesting chaos and deluge. Other times, Guez will magnify an enigma as a tactile relevant force that becomes a type of protagonist within his abstracted compositions. 
Abstract landscapes
French painter Pierre Soulages was particularly enthralled!
French painter Pierre Soulages was particularly enthralled by Guez’s work, stating: “Overall, from the depths of your painting emanated a mystical ambience.” The aesthetic foundation of Guez’s work suggests a path to an unknowable elsewhere. Whether intentional or not, his recurring angular strokes also evoke ocean tides, a place between lands experiencing moments of turbulence followed by moments of tranquility. This metaphorically alludes to the artist's personal journey and experiences: Born in Tunis, immigrating to Paris as a child, living in Los Angeles during his 20s and 30s, and today residing in Jerusalem. Guez’s artwork has since been exhibited in Venice during the Biennale, where Italian art critic Paolo Levi declared Guez a “master of vision” whose work “reveals itself to every inquiry of the observer as an arcane message.” The artist’s compositions bear witness to the evolution of time and visually symbolize compilations of life’s intricacies. His creative practice speaks to both the internal confrontations we endure on a personal level and the existential concepts that define us on a universal level. 
Abstract expressionism
Guez’s work is...
Guez’s work is a synthesis of who he is, and each measured and meditative stroke within his paintings tells stories within stories. Remarkably, his deliberate, disciplined and highly personal code of expression  remains intentionally open. With his work unremitting like a monologue that branches out into diversions, questionings, and utterances, it is up to the focused conscience of the observer to perceive their own meaning.