The work was recently exhibited in the exhibition “Silent Dialogue”, at Chelouche Gallery, Curated by Drorit Gur Arie.

Mark continues his exploration into aging and decay, looking into mind-body relations and revealing how withering is embodied in the flesh. The discourse of ageism and the veneration of youth in contemporary Western culture have led to a reduction in the representation of old age in our visual landscape, including depictions of old women. The manifestations of female aging in the art of the past were often perceived as deviating from the human to the quasi-human, ugly, and grotesque.  Mark’s focus on aging, on the other hand, is personal; a closeness that turns his paintings into a sensitive human document about the life force slowly draining away.

Read The full text by Drorit Gur Arie: Wasting Away (in English and Hebrew)

Yossi Mark, Born in Israel (1954), studied philosophy and social studies at Tel Aviv University and graduated from The Avni Institute of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv. He was awarded the Israel Ministry of Culture and Sports Award in the Visual Arts (2010) and the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports Award in the Visual Arts (2017). Mark had solo exhibitions at Chelouche Gallery (2015, 2008, 2002,1993), and exhibited in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan, the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Ashdod Art Museum, Uri and Rami Nechushtan Museum, Ashdot Ya’akov, the Israeli pavilion in Paris, the West Bloomfield Museum of Art Detroit and the University of Michigan.