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ASHER BILU

It is nigh on impossible to define Asher Bilu’s oeuvre. He uses drawings, paintings, sculpture, installation and, often, all of the above, in a single work. If he has a central rationale it would seem to be quite simply to capture the cosmos or, at the very least, to capture the wonder the universe can inspire. Bilu himself simply says, “Call it sculpture, or call it painting, my aim is to create visual ecstasies.”

akin to walking into another dimension – one delightfully cluttered with a morass of cultural bric a brac. His home, which he shares with his wife Luba, occasional grandchildren, visiting dogs and a semidomesticated family

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