Biography from Odon Wagner Gallery & Odon Wagner Contemporary:
|  Yehouda Chaki was born in Athens in 1938, lived in Tel Aviv from 1945
until 1960, and then emigrated to Montreal, Canada in 1962. From
1967 until 1989, Chaki was head of Painting and Drawing, Department of
Fine Arts, at the Saidye Bronfman Centre. Presently (2006), he
still acts as an artistic advisor for the centre.
Chaki was
educated both in Tel Aviv and at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris. He
began exhibiting in group exhibitions in 1959, and solo exhibitions in
1962. Chaki is represented in collections around the world, and
the subject of Chaki: A Language of Passion, published by Buschlen Mowatt Fine Arts, Vancouver, 1994.
The
essence of Chaki’s work has been described as a collision of the
outside world with the artist’s innermost visceral perceptions.
His most recent work: landscapes and still-life’s, are created by
selecting and assembling commonly known elements of nature so as to
present us with a newly ordered vision of the world. Although no
element in his artworks can be traced to actual places and plants, he
presents us with a believable reality yet entirely of his own
making. The essence of the painting is to be found in their
execution. Shapes are defined by forceful lines or clashes of
colour, distance is conveyed by subtle shadings contrasting with brutal
overlaps, light and mood proceed from chromatic interplays laced with
telling brushwork.
Emotion and reason coexist and are intended
to complement each other in these works. Reason being the product of
Chaki’s extraordinary drawing skill, emotion guiding his sense of
colour. When read in depth, a landscape done by Chaki leaves us
with substantial intellectual pleasure and vast emotional enrichment.
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