About the artist

Biography

I approach my work much like a musician. There is a strong lyrical nature to my style while remaining primarily abstract. It is an instrumental exploration of space - physical, spiritual, emotional, existential. Occasionally I will use 'vocals' as direct representation - but there must always be the purity of emotional content.

As you lie in bed falling asleep at the cusp before slumber your mind finds that hypnotic, free associative flicker of pure consciousness, spiraling universal designs that, in essence, we are all privy to if we choose to look for it. I choose to look...

Previous Work

Rael has held three solo exhibitions:

-2001 Savyon Tel Aviv Israel

-2003 Civic gallery Johannesburg RSA

-2008 Alliance France`s Johannesburg RSA

The artist has appeared on many group shows and completed numerous commissions since the early 2000s.

Most Recent:

-2016 Bennett Contemporary art fair RSA

-2017 Youngblood Gallery Cape town April and October

-2018 Luni Gallery Cape town Feb and April

-2018/2019 Daville Bailey Gallery Johannesburg, end of year show

-2019 G2 art gallery Cape Town

Philosophies

“All men are alike, only their customs make them different” – Confucius

“The writer must live to write, not write to live” – Karl Marx

”for a work of art to be truly immortal, it must go completely beyond human bounds: good sense and logic will be missing. In that way it will come nearer to the dream and to child mentality. “ – de Chirico

“The profound work will be drawn by the artist from the most remote depths of his being: there will be no murmur of a stream, no song of a bird, no rustling of foliage.” – de Chirico

“What I listen to is not worth anything: there is only what my eyes see when open and again when closed.” – de Chirico