An Arduous Road

Viewers joining the six-decade-long journey of Samuel Bak’s works through this catalog, are presented with a multi-faceted experience – an encounter with an artist dealing head-on with the basic question of “how” underlying the language of art, with an artist debating with himself about the abstract, the figurative and the gamut between them. The artist began painting as a 9 year old in the Vilna ghetto, where his first exhibition was held. A unique and private experience through art.