Morag Kligwasser was born in Kiryat Bialik, Israel in 1979 and studied Arts and Design at The NB Haifa School of Design, which she graduated from in 2006. In her figurative oil paintings,
Morag uses a technique of composing expressive drawings together with colourful forms
that both emphasize and describe motion. Her uniqueness is the affinity she creates in her work between the linear value of drawing and the method of classical painting. Morag’s compositions are both intriguing and well structured.
When I paint, I'm fascinated at the way one layer and then another one create vividness and depth to the painting and makes all regular colors stand out: The red is red and the green is green.
These layers I create with horizontal lines on top of lines of different shades of color,
in a way that makes it possible to see the former layers, and thus create an additional perspective, a further depth.
The horizontal lines are sculptured with paint, as a thick heavy three dimensional layer designed as a shutter, the gap between the lines creates a possibility to breath and enter inside.
The series I working on deals with the undressing of my soul, parallel to people undressing, anticipating being reborn.
The dirt showing through these line symbolizes the fact that I'm composed of these layers,
and though I might not look it, I am complex: open minded, liberal and going with the flow,
yet reserved and introverted.
From afar, the white is white, clean and wholesome. As you get closer,
you can see that the white isn't always white, the lines aren't always unified and precise and the figure is all cut up by these lines, while a full of life child emerges out. From afar these lines make the figure hover in the background, but when we come closer, we can see that the horizontal lines actually cage her in.
The painting is created in a frozen movement, a pause, creating an illusion of a loop. This comes from the need to immortalize the moment not as an image, but as a whole existence. It also tells about me, being shut in and wanting to burst out.
This is a need to stand out, to get exposure, to scream the beauty, to show the layers,
and to not cover one layer with the other in hiding. With long, bold strokes of the brush,
in a clean color, which will create a dissonance, jump into the eyes of the viewer, who will come closer to sense those carpet of colors, protruding like the Braille Writing of my life.
My childhood memories from my upbringing by my parents consists of "What will the neighbors say" a lot of "sweeping under the carpet" and my parents' efforts to shape my life to their satisfaction: a carefully designed and well educated girl, with a functional useful profession for life. All these change, being reborn, from hiding the layers to exposing them, and from a neat blue and white background, to a background of a specific place, a home, a family, the world around me.
Solo exhibitions
2019- Elbaz Gallery, New York City
2017- “Uncovering,” Cuckoo’s Nest Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016 – “Uncovering,” Bernard Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 - Art Studio TLV. Tel Aviv
2012 - Hayec Center for Contemporary Art, Jaffa
2012 – “Portraits of Poetry,” Okashi Museum Acco, Israel
2012 – “Israel Aids Task Force” exhibition, Tel Aviv
2011 – “Blurry Vision,” Daniel Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 – “Art in Motion,” Jaguar Exhibition Hall, Tel Aviv
2010 – Video-art installation at Las Ramblas, Barcelona
2009 – Matrisart Gallery, Hamburg Germany
2008 – Congress Center, Avenue, Airport City, Ben-Gurion International Airport
Group exhibitions
2018-2019- Exhibition of the gallery’s artists, Expressions art gallery , Tel aviv
2017- “Matkot, the most Israeli thing,” Novosibirsk State Museum, Russia
2017 - Tirosh Gallery. Herzliya.
2015 – Bernard Gallery, Tel Aviv. Exhibition of the gallery’s artists,
2015 – "The Favorites," Hangar 2. Jaffa
2014 - “Israel Aids Task Force” exhibition, Tel Aviv
2013 – “Israel Aids Task Force” exhibition, Tel Aviv
2012 – “Portraits of Poetry”, Okashi Museum, Acre
2012 – “Israel Aids Task Force” exhibition, Tel Aviv
2011 – “Joy” exhibition for “Larger than Life” nonprofit, Tel Aviv
2011 – “Art in Motion”, Jaguar exhibition hall, Tel Aviv
2010 – Video-art installation at Las Ramblas exhibition, Barcelona
2009 – Matrisart Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2008 – Congress Center, Avenue, Airport City, Ben-Gurion International Airport
Press
2011 – Cover art for Saxifrage Press Art & Culture magazine, New York City
2018- my net kfar sabs