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Reviews

Moti Cohen, About Being Human Paintings and Drawings - Peter Frank

Moti Cohen’s art is like the desert: deceptively simple and pretty or, conversely, deceptively coarse and barren. And, like the desert, from one angle – optical or emotive – the same artwork, the same picture can assume these contrary conditions of deception. What is unmistakable about Cohen’s work is its rawness, its plain spokenness – a lack of surface complication that allows one to sense a resonance, a profundity of meaning, while still relishing its few but intense visual stimuli...

Death is a gang-boss aus Deutschland - Keren Weisshouse

Hard it is, observing Moti-Cohen’s works, heavy it is on the breath. The black within them wraps you in a thick and adhesive mantling of impenetrable Tar. The back bends by the weight of condensed figures in a bundle of bold expressed lines. The skin shivers amidst the fleshy unhealthy texture of the painting...

White from the Black - Varda Genossar

Moti Cohen frequently uses the Black, whether it is industrial ink or tar which burdens the canvas in with intense materialism. The uncompromising need of the artist to touch the infrastructure and to boldly simplify the complex is a key characteristic of his plastic language...

Figures and Landscapes Drora Dekel

A good painting is first of all a meaning, or not.

Moti Cohen paints a good work, skipping the unnecessary and touching the essence. “I do not look in my works for the novelty... the ability of the works to become actual is built on their ability to touch life and death in the direness belonging and anxiety of a human being.”...

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