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The Desire to See: The color in Rotem Reshef’s paintings changes one Be it the enlarged microscopic image where color cells sail and meet or the
from a viewer to a seer. From one who relates to an object or an image, suggestive landscape, where among the stains and shapes foliage, a tree
the viewer in front of her works becomes a seer; Colors, shapes, sizes, trunk, and branches can be discerned; or the telescopic image suggested,
and light appear in front of her. Reshef brings nature into her paintings. where the stains receive a cosmic haze - the shapes in the painting have
The figuration at which she hints (hair, particles, cells, molecules, thorns) meaning as content. Reshef's works widen the sight beyond the viewing
brings the cosmic and molecular nature into the abstract. techniques of photography, telescopes and microscopes.

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