"When I paint, I do not think; the images are being created by themselves.. in the nature way
of life we are especially preoccupied with the basic needs, but at the same time we also notice
the little things, though we do not pay them enough attention. It could be interesting to
discover something new through this special observation angle". Pavel works make you smile,
force you to re-look at them, and invite you to give another look on the banal ways of life
through a humorists' points of view. Pavel works at the Haifa Theater as stage and,
accessories designer. He immigrated to Israel in l990.
In his works, one could easily notice traces of the stage, the comic, the absurd and the
grotesque, issues and situations that were influenced in an absurd way, by the irrational
thoughts that make sense.
The art of 'nonsense' intensifies situations, and according to it, Pavel's heroes look
like strange beings. These recognizable images break out between reality and imagination,
though usually in a different dimension, at least, not in their evident masks, that Pavel
chooses to show. For instance, a yellow cow that rests under an umbrella tree, or a body-nose
that grows up into illogical dimension, and becomes a huge monster. Sometimes, there are
heads that are used as trays for fruits or other paintings that function by their horizontal
continuation as a way to measure the weather. Pavel makes exceptional associations putting
his heroes on his own private stage-the canvas, blurring the borders between the real stage
and unseen scenes.