TEL AVIV.- Meir Appelfeld presents still life paintings, flowers, interiors and landscapes, which he painted over the past two years. The exhibition explores different ways of creating and the relationships between them: from painting made from direct observation to painting made from a preparatory drawing from nature or the imagination. The relationship between drawing and painting embodies the relationship between silence and verbal allusion, between spiritual and physical, between intuition and deliberation.

The title of the exhibition echoes, according to the artist, his desire to operate between pictorial convention on the one hand, and observation of the infinite formal diversity of nature on the other, to discover and reveal what is hidden from view.

Appelfeld’s artistic practice balances direct observation of nature with the study and internalization of historical art. This dual approach allows him to sustain a living dialogue with the artistic “tribal memory” - a tradition that both informs and challenges him, as he seeks his own path and a broader context for his work.His paintings are not concerned with the transient, but with the eternal. His creative process is shaped by opposing forces, which correct and complete one another into a coherent synthesis. The sense of depth in his paintings is intimately connected to a sense of time - they are embedded in both present and past, and their outcome is a personal and collective expression, both contemporary and timeless.

Meir Appelfeld was born and lives in Jerusalem. His father is the late writer, Aharon Appelfeld. As a teenager he studied music and trained as a violinist at the Jerusalem Academy of music and later in life decided to focus on painting. After completing his painting studies at the Royal Academy of Art in London, and following his wife's passing, he returned to Israel. Since then, he has been primarily engaged in painting, alongside teaching and researching art history. Appelfeld has had numerous solo exhibitions and participated in dozens of group exhibitions. He teaches painting and drawing at the academy and art schools in Jerusalem and considers teaching an essential part of his work as a painter.