Roni Yoffe
"Pita on the gas" 2024

"Pita on the gas" 2024
Oil on wood

40/55 cm

signed

The painter Roni Yaffe in her words about the painting:

׳׳Israel is a place of contrasts. Everything here collides with complete opposites. Faith and heresy, religion and secularism, science and spirit, east, west, north, south, and all our tastes and sounds are always at 100.

And in all this noisy existence there is one day a year that is quiet with the sounds of children on the road riding bicycles.

Yum that in my eyes is the only consensus here, as far as can be expected anyway. And he is of course unique in the world. Go explain to them why the highway is closed... there are things that are only understood if you live here in Israel.

I found another contrast that we probably excel at-

Celebration in time of mourning (independence-memory) Humor in time of war. A gathering for silly jokes and nostalgic escapism during an existential crisis in the most physical sense possible. And still not to forget who we are and where we are and who is missing.

At first I just wanted to draw pita on the gas. Then the windows in the painting seemed to me like unused real estate in the composition and I wanted to solve that, so I drew what would logically be seen outside the window in the city at night (houses and trees) and after they were already there, I thought maybe tell a little about exactly when this pita was roasted, and I wanted to draw The stars that come out to show that Kippur may have already come out, but then the stars became interceptions, because it is much more indicative of exactly when our story takes place.

Everything already seemed ready, and ready for a (good) signature, but I couldn't finish it without mentioning those who are still there, in a torturous limbo of ignorance and a shocking hell of hunger, violence and non-stop anxiety.

I added a yellow curtain, which will look everyday and believable, but which will break the composition in such a way that the eye will constantly be drawn there and prevent us from remembering an immortal skit with humor that only in Israel will it be possible to understand it in all its layers.''

Roni Yoffe (1985), lives and works in Ramat Gan, Israel.

A realist painter.

Earns a living from painting and teaching, and manages the largest online painter community in Israel that supports painters and painters called '' a painting school '' (the community group can be found on Facebook).

'' My paintings are a study of materials and symbolism of various objects, with an emphasis on the Israeli-Jewish mentality and sometimes humorously interspersed with popular cultural motifs. To me humans are by nature "idolaters" - our objects symbolize, remind and curate the meanings we give them. They tell a story without words, without movement and without voice. They are valuable or everyday, nostalgic or status symbols, and are mostly sensual. They awaken our senses to a storytelling or spiritual experience: from the mezuzah to the last lemons, everything still contains meaning for us - aesthetic, ideological, personal or collective.

The objects are symbols, the symbols become associations and the associations become a memory of an experience, and together, in the new combination of painting - they become a personal and layered experience.

Engaging in silent narratives as story elements is fascinating.

The ability to tell a story or express a position with the help of objects and colors only allows play in metaphors and allegories without being too verbal.

The inanimate objects are actors on stage.

The intense connection to living and changing nature allows the work to receive content that is ongoing, the final painting being the total occurrence of the work - the changing lighting conditions combined with the mood combined with an artistic vision. ''

Ronnie studied realism with David Nippo and Aram Gershuni and teaches drawing in Ramat Gan. enjoy studying and residency in European cities, such as Tuscany.