David Azuz, Israeli/French (1942 - )

David Azuz, who was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1942, has the enviable life of an artist living in one of the most beautiful capitals of Europe, Paris. He has lived in Paris since 1958 and returns to Tel Aviv each summer.

David Azuz has developed a style rich in color. His paintings are masterfully drawn and full of curiosity for the simple details of life. Azuz's subjects in bistros and markets, whether they be in Rome, Paris, Tel Aviv or elsewhere, express the solitude of the individual. They become symbolic of the universal citizen and are deeply moving in their pathos and search for themselves.

In order to capture the ambiance of the markets and bistros, Azuz gets up at dawn to paint from lite. He usually works late at night in the Paris cafes in search of those characteristic attitudes of the bartenders and patrons, which tend to blossom at this time of the evening, for instance, young couples in love, hiding their romance in the corner of a bistro or old ladies getting a little warmth from the anisette they sip slowly to make time go a long way. It is a world claustrophobic and vacant and, at the same time, certainly full of contradictions. In such a world, it is comforting to meet an artist who has not indulged in fashion by abstracting the patterns of life, but. on the contrary, has used his knowledge of classical drawing and, above all, his passionate temperament to communicate to us the simple gestures of life which most have forgotten to do for a long time. Contemporary art has been described as decadent. If it is indeed so, perhaps an artist of the caliber of David Azuz can help point the way out.

Solo Shows:
1959 Katz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1960 Nora Gallery, Jerusalem, Isael
1962 Tiroche's Gallery, Old City, Jaffa, Israel
Rina Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
1963 Gallery Wirth, Berlin, Germany
1966 Maison de Ia Culture, Paris, France
1967 Galerie Abel Rosenberg, Paris, France
1968 Galerie Abel Rosenberg, Paris, France
1971 Gallery Bernstein, Elmshorn, Germany
1972 Galerie Abel Rosenberg, Paris, France
Archer Gallery, London, England
1973 Engel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
1974 Galerie Abel Rosenberg, Paris, France
Gallery Mer-kup, Mexico
1975 Limited Edition Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1976 Limited Edition Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Galerie L'Arlequin, Paris 1978 Cardo Matignon, Paris

Group Exhibitions:
1958 "Art of Tomorrow", Museum of Modern Arts, Haifa, Israel
1959 Exhibition Modern Art in Israel "Artists House" of Jerusalem Haifa, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Man and Humanity in Israel" Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel
1960 "Exhibition Modern Art in Israel" Artists House of Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv, (Israel Painters and Sculptors Association)
1961 Gallery Jean Tiroche, Jaffa, Israel
1963 Gallery Wirth, Berlin, Germany
1964 Gallery Wirth, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Wiener, New York,
1965 Galery Wirth, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Du Fleuve, Paris, France
1966 Gallery Wirth, Berlin, Germany
Art Festival "66", Combined Synagogues of Great Neck, N.Y.
Galerie Carpenter, Paris, France
1967 Galerie Saint-Peres, Paris, France
1970 Exposition Hotel Royal Monceau, Paris, France
1971 Galerie Abel Rosenberg,Paris, France
1972 Galerie Abel Rosenberg, Paris France
1973 Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Galerie Abel Rosenberg, Paris, France
Ohanna Gallery, London, England
1974 Romi Gallery, Rome, Italy
Exposition Hotel George V, Paris, France
Adasa Klaskin Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel