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An Exhibition of Paintings
Artists with special needs from the Community Living Program
"When I decided to paint, I stopped talking" - Henri Matisse
Of all the significant qualities in our world, it seems that colour holds an honoured place. At all times, human beings have showered praise on the 'character', the 'soul' and the deep symbolism concealed in colours.
The exhibition is the fruit of only ten months work. Painting served as a means for me to get to know people and to make inter-personal contacts, to 'accept' and build mutual trust in setting out on a joint voyage to discover the 'substance' and the 'strong' - as a point of departure in our work.
The workshop is a hothouse for those wishing to develop competency in their painting, allowing them to express their uniqueness and abilities. In painting, a concrete product remains that reflects a process that can be related to and of which one can be proud.
Through sensory stimulation (books and pictures), inquiry and developing observation, while using and practising various techniques with a variety of materials, we have today arrived at the presentation of this exhibition that is the "whole" - but represents more than the sum of its parts that were devised during a lengthy process of work, step by step, in order to ensure success.
Acquiring working habits, setting limits, improving the ability to plan the course of events, organizing working strategies, the flexibility to switch from material to material, increasing the feeling of control, standing on one's own feet and reducing dependence, encouraging creative freedom while reducing self-criticism, respect for materials, tools and objects as a means of expression of respect for the world around and of himself, success in all these and in its wake, a change and improvement in self-image.
Sagit Bisker-Rom
Artist and initiator of the exhibition
November 2004
PARTNERS:
Sponsored by the Ministry of Social Affairs of the State of Israel, Department for Care of the Mentally Retarded, Department of Culture & Leisure Activities.
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