Beryl FurmanEIN SOF Light Paintings 4.1.22.1.2000 In my art I always seek to visualise the spiritual, the abstract side of the human mind. The Kabbalists of the Safed school in the eighteenth century developed an interesting idea. They tried to answer the question of what the Torah was before the fall and how this original Torah could be reconciled with the concrete historical Torah. These ideas are excellently formulated in the writings of Moses Cordovero, from which they were taken over by many other authors. He too starts from the assumption that the Torah in its innermost essence is composed of divine letters, which themselves are configurations of divine light. Only in the course of a process of materialisation do these letters combine in various ways. The spiritual letters became nmaterial when yhe material character of the world made this change necessary. Letters had to combine in a new way to form words relating to earthly events and material objects. Our present world took on its crude material character in consequence of the fall of man, and the Torah underwent a parallel change. Gershom Scholem: On the Kabbalah and its symbols.  BERYL FURMAN born 1951, Helsinki Tel 358-9-5051849 Lives in Kauniainen Studies in visual arts University of Applied Arts 1972-77 Private pupil of Sam Vanni 1974-77 Independent Art School 1977-78 The School of Finnish Art Academy 1978-82 Academie Julien, Paris 1978 Academy of the Visual Arts 1993-94 Private Exhibitions Kauniainen Library 1977 Vallmogard Gallery, Kauniainen 1984, 1992 Kauniainen Town Hall 1988, 1986 Galleria 88, Helsinki 1989 Galleria Vintti, Kuopio 1991 Artaide, Helsinki 1993 Galleria Katariina, Helsinki 1994, 1997 Gallerie Johan S., Helsinki 1998 Heinola Art Museum 1998 tm galleria, Helsinki 1999 Works in public collections City of Kauniainen City of Espoo The Finnish State Mutual insurance company Pohjola Pro Arbitus Kauniainen Parish Church Law office Castren & Snellman |
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