Artistic Vision and contribution
Aharon April’s artistic journey and contribution to art were deeply shaped by his life experiences and rigorous training, resulting in a vision that was both intensely personal and universally resonant.
Unconscious Reality
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)September-October 2014 Vladimir Prokhorov Aaron April is an Israeli artist. He is well-known in Israel because his work is deeply rooted in national psyche and the art tradition of the Promised Land. However, one can also discern a certain influence of the Russian painting school in his oeuvre for the […]
Aaron from the Ark
By Mikhail Ne-Kogan, LECHAYIM, October 2008 An exhibition of the artist Aharon April took place at the Tretyakov Gallery. His name probably means nothing to today’s Russian viewer. Indeed, who would remember an artist, admittedly not of the first magnitude, who last exhibited here in 1971 and left a year later? Although… Here’s what the […]
A Monologue about Aaron April
Dmitry Zhilinsky The Tretyakov Gallery | Artists On Artists A Monologue about Aaron April (Interview by Maria Fedorova) I feel a closeness to Aaron April because he found his “image”. I feel a closeness not to the painter even, but to the creator. He creates things! Although, had we not known each other personally, I would […]
Battle With Light
RETROSPECTIVE OF AHARON APRIL IN THE STATE TRETYAROV GALLERY Yougraph Konchin Culture Newspaper The exhibition of paintings and watercolors of Aharon April, opened in the State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, is by no means uniform. It should be divided in two different, even opposite parts – the “soviet” and “Israeli”. The same may be […]
What’s the riddle?
A retrospective exhibition by Aaron April in Moscow / Nayilia Roustayeva / 2008 Some hundred oils and water colors are now being exhibited at the Tretiakov Gallery, Krymski Val, Moscow, by Aaron April, Lithuanian born, formerly of Russia, and now living in Jerusalem. These biographic details of the painter’s life are not merely another confirmation […]
“Retrospective” – The Painting of Aaron April
Matti Fischer, 2006 Tel Aviv University, Department of Art History . From: “Aharon April”, catalog for “Retrospective” exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Scanrus 2007) Aaron April previously held three major exhibitions at the Artists’ House in Jerusalem: in 1973, 1978, and 1983. The hall and the place are dear to him, and he even […]
The Art of Aharon April, by Matti Fischer
Tel Aviv University, Department of Art History From: “Aharon April”, exhibition catalog in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, with an Introduction by Matti Fisher (Moscow : MOMMA, 2002). This exhibition may be seen as a culmination of almost two decades of effort, the main tenet of which has been the realization of memory in […]
Unconscious Reality: Aaron April – Thirty Years Later
Yevgraf Konchin, Kultura PortalNo. 43 (7350) October 24-30, 2002 The last exhibition of paintings by Aaron April, one of the “Sixties Generation” artists, took place in Moscow in 1971. The following year, he emigrated to Israel. And now, three decades later, he is once again showcasing his works in Moscow, at the Museum of Modern […]
The Blue bird of April
VICTORIA KHAN-MAGOMEDOVATHE CULTURAL NEWS, 2000 The fantastic becomes real, and the real – fantastic. How is one to convey the unendurable heat of the Israeli sun, the withering light of the desert with its breathtaking mirages. This blinding light seems to wipe out all colors. Birds Like People 1997 The Russian-Israeli painter Aaron Isaakovich April […]