Varda Breger:  ‘The painter who cares’

The objects in Breger’s work are created from a chaos of blots: thin and spontaneous streams of color generated by shaking the paper, capturing a lion, a gazelle, and a nude, headless woman’s body. However, another look reveals barbed wire marks, either run over by a black tire or under the sole of a red shoe. The threat of COVID-19 brought her to preoccupation with the life cycle, and she expressed it in a technique of photo-painting. In recent years, Breger has created a symbol in her works that alludes to the double helix of DNA and its bases (A-T, G-C) which are shared by all life forms, and combined it with the peace sign.

The artist developed a personal painting language. Prof. Moshe Zuckerman pointed out its distinctiveness: “Her works encompass transparency versus intense color, creating striking, distinctive contrasts. Her brilliant work is easily identifiable. The paintings are very expressive, full of movement, and have an artistic quality that invites aesthetic immersion. It is an achievement at the statement level that stems from the simultaneity of the spectacular aesthetic and the critical message.”