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Edith Cohen-Gewerc
was born in Paris. She spent her youth in Rio de Janeiro where she studied
painting at the "Escola de Bellas Artes". She came to Israel with her
family in the early sixties, and since then has dedicated herself to her
art and now, she lives and works in the city of Kfar Saba.
The impressions of her new
country, together with her solid conception of painting, have led to a
main motif: light, expressed via a vast palette of delicate colors.
We can follow the evolution
of her vision and unique techniques through several exhibitions… Invited
to participate in the famous "Salon des Indépendants" in Paris (1972), she
also had two important personal exhibitions of her works (1973) in Paris
and Biarritz. She has had one-woman shows in Rio de Janeiro (1971), in
Wiesbaden (1994), in Geneva (2000, 2003), in Tel Aviv (1979, 1989, 1990,
1996) at Engel's and Tiroche Galleries, in Jerusalem (1992), and so forth…
At present, she is working on a large exhibition of her painting and
etchings in Rio de Janeiro.
Together with the voices of art, concentrated in denunciation of our
"collapsing world", Edith chooses to focus her creation on a march into
her inner landscapes, and invites us to accompany her.
We begin our journey by moving through dense layers, then head into
lighter spaces until we reach a harmonic encounter with a new environment,
which can be either physical or spiritual, where we discover the light
coming from within.
Sometimes we wish to return to the depths of the painting, experiencing
the infinite penetration into uncertainty, however this is a search free
from fear or anxiety.
Sometimes we look for a path leading out of the crude soil in order to
reach, step by step, the ethereal level. Upon contemplating matters once
again, we then understand that we always stand before a new discovery.
What is said is barely hinted; like life itself, the essence lies in its
folds.
Edith is inspired by the process of conscious evolution, the main axis of
the theory called
Logosophy and its method.
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