Exhibition date & place
Od 6 July 2018
to 21 July 2018
WARSAW
Godziny otwarcia:
Monday - Friday 11am - 7pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm
Kapelyan was born in Belarus, and now lives and creates in Tel Aviv. Born in 1936, he spent his early childhood in war-torn Ural. He studied art in the Art Academy in Leningrad in 1952–1956. Soon after, he was conscripted into the army and moved to Kobryn in western Belarus. At the beginning of the 1960s, Kapelyan decided to continue artistic education. He received a diploma in arts in Minsk, in 1966. At that time, he traveled to many places, including Caucasus, Crimea, Kazakhstan, and Finland. In 1973, he visited Poland. At the beginning of the 1980s, he emigrated to Israel where he worked as a lecturer in the Institute of Archeology of Tel Aviv University.
In his work, Kapelyan clearly strives to transcend academic limitations and strict rules. He avoids following trends or movements which promulgate any unbending laws of logic. Instead, he consistently works on his individual style. Pointing to the recurring theme of the place of human being in the universe in his art, critics call Kapelyan’s art humanistic. The artist’s landscapes and still nature, fantastic and mystical paintings are metaphorical depictions of the desire to experience the deepest human emotions.
His most important means of expression and composition are line and geometry. It is those lines – which sometimes appear sketchy – that are the purest and most accurate expressions of emotional, intellectual, and esthetic experiences. Kapelyan uses lines as contours and, sometimes, vehicles of movement, according to his vivid imagination. Those strong contours and geometry are a common motif of Kapelyan’s works from the 1990s. The artist tells human history through geometric harmony.
Browse Lots (16)

7
Joseph Kapelyan
“Forms with Letters”, 1995, 1995
oil, pencil/canvas, 60 x 50 cm
Price:
5,500 PLN

8
Joseph Kapelyan
“Peace (Shalom)”, 1995, 1995
oil, pencil/canvas, 60 x 49.5 cm
Price:
4,000 PLN

9
Joseph Kapelyan
“Three growing in Gate” - Diptych, 1993, 1993
oil/canvas, 90 x 80 cm
Price:
10,000 PLN

11
Joseph Kapelyan
“Magen David inside Squares”, 1995, 1995
oil, pencil/canvas, 34 x 34 cm
Price:
3,000 PLN

12
Joseph Kapelyan
“Coloured figures among Planets” - Diptych, 1993, 1993
oil/canvas, 100 x 50 cm
Price:
12,000 PLN

15
Joseph Kapelyan
“Abstract drawing III”, 1998, 1998
ink/paper, 42 x 36 cm
Price:
2,000 PLN