Aharon Farkash is an Israeli artist located in Tel Aviv Isarel. Born in Haifa in 1962,
Aharon spent most of his life in trade in art and owns the Farkash Gallery in Old Jaffa.
In 2016, after 30 years of running a gallery, dealing art and having exhibitions all over the world, Aharon decided to begin painting intensively himself. Immediately, the reactions proved to be worth every stroke. In his childhood, Aharon Farkash took a great interest in comics and over the years has gained a large collecetion of vintage posters from which he took his inspiration for his paintings. Israeli art today is greatly influenced by the political and social situation in the country so that the majority of paintings today are very depressing, tainted with dark, neutral colors. Aharon took upon himself to bring color and imagery to his paintings, even if the context is dark or difficult. You are invited to enter the Fantasy World of Aharon Farkash - beginning with his prologue:

The Fantasy Land of Aharon Farkash
Ever since I can remember myself they would say to me "speak clearly, no one can understand you, you’re not articulating yourself correctly, your sentences are mixed up” etc. And so I grew up feeling that no one understands me and no one knows what goes on in my head.
Fantasies, feelings and thoughts ran through me and then I stopped explaining for many years.
After I got older, they all asked me, “Why are you so silent all the time? We don’t understand you. You don’t explain what you’re going through, we’re worried about you.”
So I started explaining since I didn’t have a choice because I wanted to flirt with girls and again they told me, “We don’t understand you”, “You didn’t explain correctly” and “Try to explain again…”
Then I got better, and formulated my sentences differently and tried harder. I sharpened and explained myself and again they continued to tell me, “Listen Aharon, we don’t understand you, you don’t know how to explain”, and when things got complicated, they would come to me with complaints;
“Why didn’t you say so earlier? Why didn’t you explain? Why didn’t you warn us?”.
And I screamed back at the top of my lungs “But I did say so!”.
One day I met my friends Roy and Gil, and I asked them, “Do you understand me?” And they answered “Of course we understand you and we understand every word you say, you’re crystal clear”.
You are "loud and clear".
So I asked them “Why do people keep telling me they don’t understand me?” and they laughed and said to me – “When you speak, you speak directly, too direct, you speak into their ear with a megaphone, and they don’t understand because they don’t want to understand and they’re not listening since they don’t like what they’re hearing. You're like their mirror.”
Then, other friends came along and asked me to be politically correct because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to move forward in life and it would cause me harm because "nobody understands you.”
So, in honor of all my acquaintances, my foes and friends, I put down on canvas everything I have in my head because “good eyes are better than ears.”
Just don’t say “I didn’t understand.”
So I'm not politically correct.
I don’t want you to be contented because you’re uncomfortable hearing and listening.
And if you’re not happy to hear, I invite you to look at the exhibition, to observe and internalize and try to enter the fantasy world of Aharon Farkash
And it doesn’t really matter to me if you understand or not, just don’t say that I didn’t say so.
You have been warned.

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