“The flower is our smell, the city and landscape is our environment, the politics is our ugliness, the buddha is our protection, the water is our dreams.” Isack Kousnsky, 2003.
Isack Kousnsky
We grieve along with the world, friends, and family as we have learned and announce the passing of artist Isack Kousnsky. Isack’s work has been proudly displayed in our showroom for many years and selected for many of our design projects. to the wonder and amazement of anyone who passes by his work, Isack’s imagery captures our imaginations with weighty inspiration. We are deeply saddened by this recent announcement. Please join us in mourning his passing, but also celebrating the life and work of this amazing man and artist.
Isack Kousnsky was born in Haifa, Israel in 1950s. Early experiences in Israel are at the core of Kousnsky’s artistic outlook. Isack fashions transcendent images of nature and fantastic views of the city meant to jolt us out of our frenzied, urban routines. He employs an array of abstract compositional strategies that play with the viewer’s perception of pictorial space. In the looming, mirrored compositions of his oceanscapes, we are presented with the very image of infinity.
In his flower pictures, we are left to wander through all-over compositions of blossoms and branches. There is also a bit of whimsy in Kousnsky’s nature photographs. Unexpected colors might disrupt an otherwise naturalistic landscape or natural forms might cluster into suggestive shapes, stimulating the viewer’s imagination.
