Pinhas Golan was born in Hungry in 1924. He has a M.A. in Philosophy.

It is not by chance that in his exhibition, the "Blocked Gate", the artist defines through his fascinating preoccupation, the combination between painting and sculpture, between two- and three-dimensions.
His creativity includes combinations and encounters between various components deriving from his private world.

Pinhas Golan turns personal suffering and pain, tested by time, into an artistic creation and in fact, into a process of general human statement which evokes the memory of a blocked gate which was slammed behind his beloved for the last time, while being uprooted from their home to the unknown -- Auschwitz.

The "Blocked Gate" continues to accompany and appear in dreams and thoughts for many years and with time becomes an individual starting point with significant implications for conncting the past to the present and towards the future.

Glan's works are conducted clearly on the conscious level and subsequently on the social and universal levels.
Pinhas Golan succeeds in converting the "Blocked Gate" into a memory, a warning and a commemoration. The obsessive preocuupation with shape creates a mosaic of combinations on a high level, internal and external combinations of personal intuition.

These combinations elevate the exhibition to a level of principal statement, to social criticism and aesthetic thinking on the highest level of an individual who daily faces rules of justice and morality and copes with the fundamental challenge of being a man.

Raphi Barbivy
Exhibition's Curator