Description
David Azuz, Israeli/French (1942-2014)
Grey Lady, Red Bar, 1980
Framed Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil.
Signed lower right and numbered 15/200 lower left and with two artist blind stamps at lower left.
Size without frame: 65 x 50 cm. Framed in silver leaf handmade frame.
Price: 450€ + 24% VAT.
Biography:
David Azuz, who was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1942, has the enviable life of an artist living in one of the most beautiful capitals of Europe, Paris. He has lived in Paris since 1958 and returns to Tel Aviv each summer. David Azuz has developed a style rich in color. His paintings are masterfully drawn and full of curiosity for the simple details of life. Azuz’s subjects in bistros and markets, whether they be in Rome, Paris, Tel Aviv or elsewhere, express the solitude of the individual. They become symbolic of the universal citizen and are deeply moving in their pathos and search for themselves. In order to capture the ambiance of the markets and bistros, Azuz gets up at dawn to paint from lite. He usually works late at night in the Paris cafes in search of those characteristic attitudes of the bartenders and patrons, which tend to blossom at this time of the evening, for instance, young couples in love, hiding their romance in the corner of a bistro or old ladies getting a little warmth from the anisette they sip slowly to make time go a long way. It is a world claustrophobic and vacant and, at the same time, certainly full of contradictions. In such a world, it is comforting to meet an artist who has not indulged in fashion by abstracting the patterns of life, but. on the contrary, has used his knowledge of classical drawing and, above all, his passionate temperament to communicate to us the simple gestures of life which most have forgotten to do for a long time. Contemporary art has been described as decadent. If it is indeed so, perhaps an artist of the calibre of David Azuz can help point the way out.
Solo Exhibitions
1959 katz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1960 Nora Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
1961Kunstzall’t Center, Den Haag, Holland
1962 Tiroche’s Gallery, Old City, Jaffa, Israel Rina Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
1963 Gallery Wirth, Berlin, Germany
1966 Maison de Ia Culture, Paris, France
1967 Galerie Abel Rambert (Rosenberg), Paris, France
1968 Galerie Abel Rambert (Rosenberg), Paris, France
1971 Gallery Bernstein, Elmshorn, Germany
1972 Galerie Abel Rambert (Rosenberg), Paris, France
Archer Gallery, London, England
1973 Engel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
1974 Galerie Abel Rambert (Rosenberg), Paris, France
Gallery Mer-kup, Mexico City, Mexico
1975 Limited Edition Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1976 Limited Edition Gallery, Los Angeles, California Galerie L’Arlequin, Paris
1978 Cardo Matignon, Paris
1978 Gallery Cardo Matignon (Charles Nisenbaum), Paris, France
1979 Gallerie Daniel Binn, Metz, France
Rosenbaum Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
1980 Soufer Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1981 Soufer Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Gallerie du Perron, Geneva, Switzerland
1982 Soufer Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1983 Galerie René Drouet, Paris, France
1984 Soufer Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1986 Soufer Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1989 Amalyal Arbel Gallery (Retrospective – oils, pastels – 1968 – 1975) Tel Aviv, Israel
Soufer Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1992 Galerie Albion, Cannes, France