The Jerusalem Artists House

In the Mezzanine gallery Jorge Cabeceiras (born in the Azorean islands in 1951) shows a number of seemingly trite things of figures in a park at Ohel Moshe, but the best of them begin to grow on you the more you look at them. Cabeceiras does all his oils in much the same way, lifting the tail of every little stroke of impasto into the air. This, aided by strong harmonic contrasts and the liberal use of whites results in a highly active – sometimes overactive – surface, so that it’s hard to detect at first exactly what is really going on. Some of the harmonies are crude, but a few of the larger ones are subtle in color and engaging.

Jerusalem Post December 1, 2000 Meir Ronnen