A “ moveable fate “ or the Mediterranean tales of David Bomberg
( Daniel Katz Ltd.- memorial exhibition consecrated to David Bomberg / London,
May-July , 2007 )



Recalling the life and the audacious style of David Bomberg ( 1890-1957 ) a memorial exhibition will feature – in the interest of his collectors – a special section of his opera ( summing 22 paintings and drawings , mostly from private collections including an important recently discovered painting of his early age , by 1914 .
At the beginning of his brilliant destiny Bomberg was among the innovative artists of his generation and as a talented teacher during his final decade had a strong influence on a whole school of British artists . In spite of the indifference and much more , of the incomprehension of his contemporaries – regarding the symbolical atmosphere of his paintings – David never admit such an ungrateful “ treatment “ . It is only in the last two decades that its total significance of his opera has been recognised , veritable interpreted and reflected in the retrospective exhibition devoted to him ( at the Tate Gallery in London in 1988 ) .
The curator , Daniel Katz has the singular opportunity to present works evoking the art and aesthetical gesture of Bomberg , one of the greatest British painters of the last century , from his early days spent at the famous Slade School of Fine Art where he was the most gifted and intelligent painter of his time , through the vulnerable and dramatic turn to realism after the tragedy of the First World War and his voyage to the Holly Grounds ( to Palestine , in the late “20s ) recalling the years he spent in legendary places like Toledo , Cuenca and later , Ronda , a mythical space where he reacted with visceral intensity to the Spanish landscape . Also on show will be two views of Jerusalem from 1925 , together with The Church of the Holly Sepulchre and Jerusalem , looking to Mount Scopos .
The two creations are representative of David Bomberg ‘s particular vision and experience of that kind of Mediterranean light realized with a fertile palette and impressive colors.


Armand Steriadi