Blue Gesture I

Udi Cassirer is an Israeli visual and contemporary artist born in 1965 who lives and works in Tel Aviv - Yafo, Israel. He is graduated from Midrasha Art School. In the early 90’s, he did several T.V shows with his “About American Abstract Painting” exploring the gesture through minimal large-scale paintings in referring to American painters as Franz Cline with the construction of amorphic images-lines. In 1998-99 after studying animation, Udi did a series of digital artworks that dealy with the language of the painting theme, sublime views, sea skies which are made with 3D software. The image overlays with pixels draws or doodles. Lately, those artworks updated as NFT, animated and minted on the blockchain. In 2004, the artist achieved an important show “Abat-Jour” (lampshade) which signified his return to figurative painting. Since 2017, Cassirer painting’s generate new styles and themes characterized by expressive body figures in interpersonally composition. In 2018 themes are the ‘the Gaze’ and ‘View” in its psychological and semantic aspects, personality, relationships & motherhood are his figures that emphasize complicated characters.