REVIEW
"At a glance these paintings show "Quality". They tell us instantly that they belong among the serious paintings of the last half century. They have that indefinable character of "rightness" about them - firmness of intention and mastery in execution. They are beautiful, skilful and original.
As a psychologist I get a feeling of underlying solemnity - a glimpse of the artist's wide vision of humanity that is surely based upon her awful and extraordinary early life in Hitler's concentration camps. These paintings are tender and strong, restrained yet passionate, sad but reassuring. Exeter is privileged, even if it does not realise it, to be host to an artist of such pedigree and to the classy Terracina Gallery for putting on this exhibition.”
Dr Richard Ryder, psychologist and art writer
Raya Herzig - West to the moon, East of Nowhere
Sep/Oct 07
Raya Herzig
Raya Herzig - "Slient Night" - "Heros"
Raya Herzig
Raya Herzig
Raya Herzig - "Penelope"
Raya Herzig - "Slient Night"
Raya Herzig - "Vertigo" - "Lethal Esthetics"
Raya Herzig - "Night Flight"
Raya Herzig - "Farewell Mighty Aphrodite"
Raya Herzig - "Entering the Dark"
Raya Herzig - "West to the Moon" "East of Nowhere"
Raya Herzig
PRESS RELEASE:
RAYA HERZIG, an artist with an impressive list of exhibitions all over Europe, was born in Poland and survived war and camps as a child. Revisiting the places of her childhood in 1969 brought up strong images she started to ban on canvasses. Although self-taught, Raya Herzig was soon accepted amongst the guildes of professional artists. Many exhibitions later, in 1990, she moved from Switzerland, one of the countries where she had been living after the war, to England. She lives in Exeter since 2006.
The London arts critic Helen de Borchgrave writes about Raya’s art:
“Delicate and visionary, subtle and exquisitely executed, these philosophical allegories are an important
testimony to the dignity and resilience of the human race.” (London Arts Review)
Cristina Burke-Trees, curator of the Terracina Gallery, where the exhibition is held, describes the experience:
“With every picture and on an infinite scale of emotions we get drawn into her very personal world that is at the
same time strangely universal.”
And finally the artist herself:
“It’s not what happened in the past, that keeps the memory going, it’s the everyday reminder, that things
haven’t changed.” (Raya Herzig)