BeelZan: Contemporary Art of New Relationships
Dr. Yerushalmi signs his paintings "BeelZan" which in Farsi means a laborer, a farmer; one who carries a shovel; who digs. The meaning of art for Beelzan lies in his belief that the "normal" lives by and through images a fantastic and selfish reality. The "normals" will do anything to preserve their particular mythology denying reality. The so-called "abnormal", refuse to live these false offerings.
The artist lives these realities simultaneously.
For Beelzan, art is an effort, an experiment, and an experience, in bridging between the two. It is sanity in an increasingly insane society. Art is living creatively the reality that life ends. Within this tenuous dialectic, art is a form of expression with the potency, as Schiller observed, to make us moral by first making us aesthetic.
Beelzan's brush strokes aim at transcending the madness of the world. A painting is an instrument of non-violent protest in making the world a better place.
Beelzan contends that those who hail normalcy, corporatize it, and claim to be normal, are the ones who are engaged in genocides, econocide (economic genocide), and ecological destruction in intensity, scale, and magnitude not known in human history. The human mind in its "normal" state of mind has become the most destructive weapon ever made.
All relationships are made into "things" and it is becoming apparent that not only "another world is possible" but necessary. In his paintings Beelzan embraces a world that will give birth to New Relationships: with nature, between men and women, between men, women, and God; a new economy, a new technology; new ethics; new relationship to science, to knowledge; and a new relationship to state boundaries, race, and class. By declaring war on the old world, Beelzan becomes a midwife giving birth to a new world of relationships, the weapons being brush and paint and the paintings the vision.
Indignation, despair, frustration, and pain, populate both spheres of Beelzan's existence as a Doctor in psychology and an artist. As a universal artist, he visually communicates his protest facing injustice and abuses of power, contaminating elitism, and dehumanizing market forces.
Beelzan's artistic creativity rejects machination and mechanistic approaches. Acting on the external world and transforming it, even if on a 4x4 canvas board, an artist's psyche and being are transformed. As an artist, he envelopes beauty and beholds goodness, justice, and truth. He is advocating and at the same time pacifying his passionate revolutionary desires.
While creating art, Beelzan speaks of us in our cultural, existential, and historic narrative. In doing so, the strokes, colors, shapes, and lines of his paintings follow a very personal narrative of struggling to communicate our sufferings, fears, and hopes in facing unhappiness with the human condition. He is transforming fear through the medium of art into the experience of internal freedom.
Being process and not result-oriented, Beelzan has "finished" a painting of 40x30 in a 2-hour session, and a 15x12 in 24 years. The last brush stroke is a witness of how far the painting has gone from the image he may initially have had when the first brush stroke was applied. As such, non-spontaneous mechanised planning per se is rudimentary at times and ridiculous but very amusing at other times.
Beelzan believes that a painting is a metaphorical Statement; it is Statement Art. Such painting generates energy and creative tension. His approach to facing the canvas is intense, intuitive, and universally autobiographical, exploring artistically the depth of our psyche, and tapping with a tender approach and empathy into our existence through "what I see looking at us and what I wish for us."
Beelzan does not attend commercial exhibitions and galleries. He has declined to attend the Florence Biennial. He is pleased that his artwork had been chosen for presentation in a book together with the artwork of 100 contemporary painters from around the world.
SALE of artwork: In accordance with the principles of a gift economy, social justice and struggle against capitalism-imperialism the interested party will contribute in full the agreed value to the Boycott, divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) of the Apartheid settler colony in Palestine.
The price range of the artwork is from $1100 to $25.000.
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