Peter Maltz

Artist based in Israel

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Maltz is an Artist and Tutor. He sees himself as a person on a journey creating a chronicle and sharing stories.

The work is related to his personal life, the culture and society around him and everyday life.The work encompasses the fields of sculpture and drawing. Maltz combines a variety of abstract and narrative expressive modes.

Maltz has been researching for more than twenty years the relation between the visual language and structures of narrative, such as – Diary writing, storytelling, how to? books and allegorical literature. Many of his sculptures are reliefs made in the traditions of assemblage and casts . The reliefs create “death masks” or “sculptural photographs” of an event, situation or adventures which occurred in his life.

Maltz’s drawings are created as an intentional series. Many times they are exhibited like a storyboard or bound together to create artist books. One of his work’s main characteristics is the combination of metaphysical and material themes. The mundane mixes with the transcendental.

The drawings and sculpture are created from an urge to reach a moment of enhanced consciousness and out of a conviction that art has the ability to transform oneself and others to live a meaningful life .