| One can mill through the colorful, magical world of David Gafni, among canvasses painted with marvelous expertise… From David Gafni's colorful and magical interpretations of the book of all books… David gafni paints the Bible with all the legend, homily, and deep mysticism with which such Kabbalistic works as the Zohar envelope the simple biblical narrative. |
| Edit Na'aman - Yedi'ot Aharonot , Israel |
| It is a rare privilege for man to "see the thundering" of Creation, and to read their colors. All this bound up in the form and color of your works. My thanks and appreciation for the marvelous experience which you of bestowed upon me, in letting me "glimpse" at the "colors of Creation" of the End of Days. |
| Dr. Avigdor Shahan, Writer, Israel |
| In Gafni's paintings form and color are free, bursting out and streaming forth a blaze of fire. In streams of molten lava, with blinding rays of light, which transport the gazer into an unfamiliar realm, and perheps misty scenes from our innermost dreams… The pictures in this exhibit, succeed in evoking in our souls a deep sense of awe, admiration, and fervour, as has always been characteristic of the magic of the Kabbalah. |
| Ella Rind, Plastic Arts Department, Vieta Nostra. |
| Aside from its esthetic value, this exhibit has further enriched me in term of Jewish mysticism and the Kabbalah. Nothing is more abstract than mysticism. Therefore, nothing could be more difficult than to portray mysticism, transcendental ideas, in painting. You have succeeded in this endeavor, due to your exceptional combination of various hues with the appropriete forms. |
| Yizhak Arzi, Deputy Mayor, Director of Department of Culture and Art, Municipality of Tel-Aviv. |
| David Gafni constructs new representaions of the cosmos, full of imagination, almost like science-fiction forms in space. Fire and water, mist and earth, all of concrete matter - blend in one another; and every being with a form recognizable as man or bird is radiantly illumined with all the colors of the rainbow. Matter strips itself of its physical existence, striving to do away with the separation of energy from matter, and through a rich process of color to attain metaphysical being. David Gafni is a mystic artist, and like the English physicist, Sir James Jeans, his End of Days also deals with the spirit. He builds anew the light of the sun, the fundamental laws of the universe, as if returning the world to the chaos from which is was forged, so that it will emerge anew, cleaner and purer. |
| Nava Semel, Writer, Haifa |
| Cabalistic and prophetic titles are given to barren, primordial landscapes composed of imaginary geological starta and devoid of life. His theatrical focus of light and a systematic use of chromatic color scales adds a seed of drama, poetry and mystery. Most striking is the artist's technical excellence in handling oil paint. It far outweighs the limited subjectivity, each picture restating a singular artistic reference. Also imaginative, the drawings seem to breath life rather than expel it. |
| Gil Goidfine, The Jerusalem Post. |