Original Oil Painting Leo Ray Israeli Artist Passers By Start Price USD 21,000.00 Current Price USD 21,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, November 13, 2008 End Time Saturday, December 13, 2008 Location Tel Aviv See more about 'Original Oil Painting Leo Ray Israeli Artist Passers By' Description Original Oil Painting Leo Ray Israeli Artist Passers By Description Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Original Oil on Canvas byIsraeli artistLeo RayGeneral Description:Opal Gallery, in cooperation with Urban Gallery, presents the marvelous works of Leo RayThe paintings would be offered for sale in our store, FOR ONE MONTH ONLY, simultaneously to the artist's exhibition - "Passers By" - presented in Opal Gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel. Read about the exhibition below "the artist" section of this listing. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 For international shipping price please contact us.   Materials & Medium:Oil on Canvas Time Period:Post 2000Signature: PresentMeasurements:Height31.5 inches80 cmWidth94.5inches240cmThe Artist: Leo Ray Born in 1950, in Vilnius, Lithuania.Graduated Vilnius University and Vilnius Academy of Arts.Since 1991 lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.Active in painting, graphics, small-scale sculpture, art teaching.WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONSVilnius Museum of Arts, Lithuania.Kaunas Museum of Literature, Lithuania.Telsiai City Museum, Lithuania.Naisiai Medal Museum, Lithuania.Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IsraelZagreb Museum of Arts, Croatia.Baltchik City Gallery, Bulgaria.Grafikens Hus, Mariefred, Sweden.Moscow Vuchetich Sculpture Funds, Russia.Florean Museum, Baia Mare, RomaniaPRIZES AND AWARDS1986 – The Baltic Triennial of Medal Art – The Jury Diploma1987 – The Lithuanian Triennial of Medal Art – The Jury Prize2000 – The International Small Engraving Salon, Baia Mare, The Jury 1-st prize.Passers By / Leo RaySo what this is all about? I was asked once what my paintings are "about". The question surprised me. Until this question I used to give titles to my paintings, and the titles were the ones that helped form the situation in the painting, like a traffic sign that gives directions to the observer who is asking himself: "what do I look at". Personally I felt that my paintings have a meaning, but I never asked myself "what are they". I considered them as valid existent beings. Once upon a time Once upon a time, people thought that a good and important painting should be about a serious and significant event, with high level participants. For example: a painting should be about Napoleon, resting after a fight, or kissing his Josephine. Or that a painting should be about Patton, falling down from the sky with his horses and carriages (I always felt sorry for the beautiful strong horses, with the silky shiny skins, the innocent victims of the period's taste…). In those days, the more important the event was, the more valuable was the painting. The lost catalog Things of that matter were meaningless to me. But later on I did start thinking about this question. I wrote a short text about the subject, which was printed in a catalog that today is probably lost and forgotten, gone with the wind. Actually the wind suited the contents of that text perfectly… I wrote there that the things that move me are the things that I can't touch and I can't hold. I feel those ungraspable things strongly and many times they fill me up with pure happiness. I can't describe those things clearly; therefore I try to draw them. Super Glue Morning coffee's aroma, a breeze, a smile of a woman passing by, an old man in a good suit smoking a pip, the gaze of a furry dog passing me by, the twinkle of tree leafs at dawn, a bird I never saw resting on a branch and singing, cat's moan in the mist of a sudden love eruption… things that comes up in a dream, things that comes up in the memory… what can you do with all of those things, with that so slippery and tangible world? The same things go as they came. If I could, I would glue them to me. I would have asked my genius friend to invent such glue for me. Some people try to photograph such passing situations in an attempt to hold on to them. But in my eyes, eventually they're holding the picture, but loosing its essence and its meaning. Those stay only in the memory… And now really, what this is all about? I think that people, birds, cats, dogs, horses, ladies in red, musketries, painters, baggers and monks that move from left to right like in a dream in this set of paintings, called "Passers By", are the embodiment of those feelings. They are all passing by, in transit. I tried to slaw down their movement, so we would be able to look at them, watch them for a while. Those creatures are actually personifying an endless line, and I think that from now on, forever, I'll never stop drawing them. More and more creatures pass me by and fill my heart in gratitude. I hope they'll never stop.   "Passers By"For Leo Ray's art exhibition, November 2008Dr. Miriam Or "The melody you've abandon is still coming backAnd the rode is still opens lengthwiseAnd a cloud in its skies and a tree in its rainsStill expects you, passer by And the wind will rise and in a swinging flightThe lightings will pass-by above youAnd a sheep and a doe will be witnessThat you pated them and kept on going That your hands are empty and your city is farAnd not once you've worshipedA green grove and a woman in her laughterAnd a rainy treetop eyelids."]Nathan Alterman, "The melody is still coming back"] 3 sets are presented in the Leo Ray's art exhibition:Large painting No. 1: "Lady in Red Watching a Movie in An Old-Fashioned Drive-In",]130X390] Large painting No. 2: "Passers By With A Bird On A Tower",]50X400] A set of small paintings: "Passers By",]80X100]  Like in Alterman's poem, Leo Ray attributes the passers by three ways of walk: the physical, the mental and the artist's way. The last one goes through a metamorphic process as a walker in the history of the human culture. He watches characters crossing the time course with physical presence in places and time periods. Those experience mental experiences that leave a mark on the walkers after them. Like Alterman, Leo Ray observes two types of walkers – the religious and the atheist, and therefore has no destination. He is not aware to the fact that he's got no eternal home and that he's not the world's owner, he has no paradise, and therefore no goal; he aims his steps to momentary and temporary achievements. And thus he is passing like a passer by: like a temporary guest that fades away in the forgetfulness. ]The philosopher Jacques Derrida is  broadly dealing with the hosting topic and Emmanuel Levinas  elaborates on it] Amir Or wrote his poem "I too didn't go far away" in a similar tone, as a tribute to epitaph on Greek and ancient-Roman tombstones. The writings on the tombstones are addressing the passers by them and bring to their attention that once upon a time the dead underneath them was a walker like them. A fresco with a similar orientation was drawn in a later period, in Camposanto, Pizza – the writing reviling on it to the cavaliers passing by: "Yesterday we were like you, tomorrow you'll be like us". From the point of view of "Everything is predetermined but there is freedom of choice", Ray's passers by figures aren’t always moving in Bruegel's blinds way, but they holdup, look back, try to determine and to influence the course of life.  Nonetheless, and even though they outline the direction, the legs are marching towards the direction set by faith in the inevitable life and death circle. Like that far away city to which we'll never arrive, Leo Ray sees his passers by as wanderers how walk alone in an endless road and that'll never reach the end of the journey.  Here we can refer to the Sisyphus, the Alber Kami myth motif, that its motto emphasize that the road is important and not the ending. As human beings we don't want to end our roads – we want to continue in life stages. Our focus is in the way of life and not in its end (death). The human being is born alone and dies alone. The wanderer walks alone, like the artist creates alone. Even though he is trying to deny it, finally he knows that solitude is part of his existential state. Those who survive this feeling are the one that succeed to grab in to faith, beauty and the bird's singing – the creation of the artist] in a similar way to Alterman's "The melody is still coming back"]. Ray's figures sometimes walk like circus clowns wearing masks and doing acrobatic exercises to deflect in putting the future prior to the present and the past. The lady in red represent the life and the physical existence – the earth watching the happenings like it was in a movie that documents the present and implies the future. To the passers by in the second set accompanies the bird that represents the soul.  Its singing is the singing of the art – it shows us different things from the familiar reality and takes us to magical places located everywhere, where the imagination enables us to find out the skies and to satisfy the inquisitiveness and creativity drive. We hang on to those and uplift ourselves to higher spiritual levels that give us the freedom feeling and the joy of life. From this, like Taoism and Kabala tell us, the successful and harmonic combination between physical and spiritual constitutes the secret of the human happiness. Leo Ray's "Passers By" exhibition built in a cyclic round that parallel to the eternal cyclicality of the universe, seasons of the year, life and death. The wanderer who stopped for a moment can be a gift; he is a cesspit of life. The descriptions of the wonderer passing by from one place to another is an expression to the human being who moves in a historical sequence as he rolls from generation to generation until the eternity and thus he wines the finiteness of life.Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further informationTel 972-3-5244110 urban972@gmail.com  Worldwide shipping Standard Delivery - EMS International (Between 3 and 7 days)Local ShipmentItems can be shipped for NIS 88.00  Local PickupGeneral items can be picked-up from our Tel-Aviv offices on 72 Ben Yhuda St., Tel Aviv 63433, Israel for a handling fee of NIS 40.00.Combined Shipping DiscountsEach item in a combined sipping can be shipped for 50% of the stated shipping price PLEASE NOTE: Insurance is optional. The insurance costs will be around 3% of the purchase price. Please be advised- we strongly recommend that shipping insurance be taken. 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It will be the responsibility of the Seller to ensure that PayPal is available in his/her territory.PAYMENT MUST BE MADE WITHING 96 HOURS AFTER AUCTION RESULT  Sale taxNo Sales Tax will be applied in any territory, but it must be clearly understood that Value Added Tax will be applicable if the item is sold in the Territory of Israel at the percentage rate that is appropriate at the time of sale.  Contact informationPlease be advised that for the sake of Auction safety all written communications should be conducted via the eBay email communications system.The direct communication details for are as follows:Phone: +9723 5244110 Liz Adi KashkashFax:      +9723 5244022 SMS:    +97254 6649787Email: urban972@gmail.comAddress: 72 Ben Yehuda St., Tel Aviv 63433,Israel  Urban Gallery, in cooperation with Opal Gallery, presents the marvelous works of Leo Ray Payment Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information Tel 972-3-5244110 urban972@gmail.com Worldwide shipping Standard Delivery - EMS International (Between 3 and 7 days) Local Shipment Items can be shipped for NIS 88.00 Local Pickup General items can be picked-up from our Tel-Aviv offices for a handling fee of NIS 40.00. 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