Member's bio: Tavi Weisz

As a visual artist I take it upon myself to suggest new ways of organising, understanding reality. For me nothing is ordinary anymore. In my paintings in many cases I use images, which are familiar to the viewer, and I establish unsettling relations between them. I am opening to chance and primal impulses. This is a way to free myself from conscious control and to enter a trancelike, meditative state. Forms and images could be extracted out of the process itself, without preconceived ideas. The viewer is forced to gain understanding through emotions without any preconceptions and as a result, my works are suppressing the tendency to understand through the intellect. Through the tactile qualities of the surface of my works a certain connection even catharsis is established between image, eye and soul. My aim is to disconcert the viewer and reveal possible alternatives to what seems to be forever fixed and unchanging.

After completing his formal studies in Cluj, Romania and Budapest, Hungary, Tavi established his own studio in Ottawa, the Canadian capital, a vibrant multi-cultural center that offers a wide variety of artistic perspectives.

website: www.artengine.ca/weisz

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