MOSHE CHOURAKI | Discussion in Jerusalem

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MOSHE CHOURAKI

Moshe Chouraki was born in Alger in 1955 and grew in Paris. He is influenced by impressionism, the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire, and the painting of Marc Chagall. Chouraki visited the “Ecole des beaux-art” in Paris but decided to follow a non-academic path.

He also began to sing French and Canadian traditional songs; he preforms in meetings and exhibitions in Paris with Hungarian painter and architect Robert Weinberger. Meeting with painter Alain Kleinmann and singer r’ Shlomo Carlebach an exhibition of Moshe in shanghai(china). 

Moshe established himself in Jerusalem in 1988. while painting, he performs in various places of the local scene. Meeting in his residence with painter Yaacov Agam who shows Moshe his private collection of paintings and mobiles. 

TENDANCES AND TECHNIQUES 

Regarding his work in the field of painting, Moshe began in Paris, during five years, under the guidance of his friend Robert Weinberger, with a reclusive and lonely work with pure colors, exploring by himself transparences and melting, effects and spiritual forces of colors. His global influences came from impressionists, but the gate that took him to pictorial art was Marc Chagall. 

“I remember, as a child, my father leading me to museums, and I was there, in Chagallstasy, contemplating the paintings of marc chagall, stunned by the blues, the greens, the reds….” Moshe works with brushes and oil painting on canvas but sometimes uses a mixed technique. 

“while I could be called an autodidact, it always seemed to me, while painting in my beginnings, that some unknown mentors were with me, and we had conversations ” you finally can discern among so many works of contemporary art, the one that will touch you and speak to you, and this no matter how you feel. 

In the works of Moshe Chouraki, I see myself constantly challenged by this authentic style, a sublime mélange of impressionism and naïve art. from his paintings emerge poetry and that touch of subtle arrogance that make all the difference. From the paintings of Moshe Chouraki spring, hidden beauty that we discover more and more day after day. 

• Patrick Benazet, Moshe Chouraki by painter Alain Kleinmann