About The Artist

GARTNER - Belgo - Israeli - painter . Gartner became active in the field of visual art in his own personal way : through music - more precisely jazz , bossa nova - and distant journey . Especially Brazil , country of melting pot of cultures . The native culture , the texture and the "earth" colours are the basis of an uninterrupted research . By a gradual process of progressive purification and originality , Gartner's " individual style " was born . Always in evolution , his recent paintings have disparate origins : they are rooted in mysticism , poetry , mythology , archeology , the symbolism of nature or within the very personality of the artist himself . In his typical vocabulary of forms and techniques , he realizes works which testify to his authenticity and power of expression . Symbols , signs , characters and abstraction are interlinked in ever changing variations . Gartner's paintings cannot be explained unequivocally . It does take time to explore them . Gartner's artistic output is further characterised by a conscious introduction of duality within the same work . Gartner is a painter in the true sense of the word : his pictorial craftmanship appears to be innate . I would state that Gartner always transcends the purely material level of art , regardless of the material substrate and on the extra-pictorial elements he introduces in his works . Gartner always reaches the level of spiritualization . Ernest van Buynder , president of MUKHA Museum of Contemporary Art , Antwerp http://www.g-art-ner.com