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Flowers in a Vase, 2022

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Guy Yanai’s studio,Tel Aviv. © Photo Karl Hab. // Detail of ‘Club Med Serre Chevalier’, 2017 - oil on linen, 150 x 180 cm // ‘Club Med Serre Chevalier’, 2017 - oil on linen, 150 x 180 cm

GUY YANAI Love of Beginnings March 16 — April 29, 2017

Galerie Derouillon, Paris

-Excerpt of text by Charlotte Jansen

Beginnings have a personal resonance for Yanai. He has spent his life starting over, moving between continents and across countries --new friends, new home-- finally coming full circle and settling where his journey first began, in Israël, the land of the displaced.

But even there he remains a foreigner, ensconced in his studio on a shady street in south Tel Aviv, rootless and moveable as the potted plants he often likes to paint. Far from disorienting, this outsider’s gaze is the perfect position for a painter who loves to look.

Love of Beginnings is Yanai’s second solo exhibition at Galerie Derouillon. At the centre of the show are three oil paintings, arranged in no particular order or sequence. Club Med Serre Chevalier (2017) depicts a resort in France, based on photographs taken by tourists and posted to Tripadvisor. Kitchen (2016/17) is a view of the artist’s apartment in Tel Aviv. The Piano Lesson (2017) is Yanai’s transcription of Matisse’s painting of the same title from exactly 100 years ago.

The Green Chair, 2022

Oil on canvas, 150x120 cm

Manon’s Salon, 2021

Closed Kiosk, 2022

Woman Sleeping Near the Sea, 2022

Salina Door, 2021

Young Woman Sailing, 2022