Interview with the Artist Yitzy Rosengarten

New York City NY

03 January, 2022

6:01 AM

Description

Classical painting, illustration, urban art ... Yitzy Rosengarten's work moves between different fields, but always showing a great mastery of technique and a very careful aesthetic. With more than 24 year career as an artist, Yitzy Rosengarten has participated in individual and collective exhibitions, alternative theaters, galleries and art fairs around the world. Yitzy loves to experiment with all the themes and techniques, although the ones he uses the most are acrylic and watercolor. What he loves to paint the most are landscapes. Nature makes him feel freer and more alive. Observing the works of Yitzy Rosengarten, what characterizes them the most are the light and the strength of the color that he expresses in them. Q: Do you think that your environment or family had something to do with your vocation? Yitzy Rosengarten: I studied Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. Q: When did you know that your vocation was to be an artist? Yitzy Rosengarten: In my closest surroundings, there has not been any plastic artist, but I have lived surrounded by musicians, since both my grandmother and brothers were musicians, and their music was the soundtrack of our house. I imagine that, although they are two different disciplines, there will be something out there in my DNA. I have been fortunate to have all the support of my family to develop my creativity. Q: What does art and culture mean to you? Yitzy Rosengarten: Since I was little, I’ve been particulary interested in drawing and painting. Both my family and my teachers supported my vision. For this reason, they promoted this inclination towards these disciplines from the beginning. For me, art is a way of seeing and understanding life. Q: What technique do you usually follow for your paintings? What technique are you most comfortable with? Yitzy Rosengarten: I have been and continue to be very classical when it comes to using different materials and pictorial procedures. I have not yet entered the digital age to create my definitive work, but I do use it as a tool in its process. At present I continue working with wash-based and large-format Chinese ink, although previously I have touched on other techniques such as oil, acrylic, graphite…. Q: In how many stages would you define the evolution of your work? Do you think you have already reached the last of your stages? Yitzy Rosengarten: Well, I have never counted them, but I have evolved over time since I conceive this work and understand it as research. It is a continuous change searching, analyzing, testing, synthesizing, selecting, comparing ... I am very restless and curious. Q: Looking at it from a commercial aspect, do you think there is a technique that sells more than others? Yitzy Rosengarten: Today there is no predilection for the specific procedure. A job well done is sold, be it of the discipline and of whatever material it may be. Q: Do you prefer group or individual exhibitions? Which of them do you think benefits the sale the most? What about the knowledge and dissemination of an author's work? Yitzy Rosengarten: Both are very important and you have to work with the same interest and professionalism. There is no doubt that an individual you expose yourself only and it always supposes a greater vertigo and responsibility. It is very imposing to see your work outside of its environment and to see them in another space. You learn a lot from them and perhaps the most interesting thing about that fact. Giving distance to your own work is very important and necessary.