It Paints a Thousand Words

If DovBer Marchette would create a portrait of his life, it would include objects d’art fashioned from discarded junk, paintings limited by color in order to feel the infinite, and finally, a return to the vision of the Master Artist

In recent years, DovBer has started having shows again in the United States, and has found an unexpected yet welcome new following in Italy, where he says people have an appreciation for art history and his contribution to the evolution of modern art.

“I moved modernism to a new place, and they recognize it over there,” he says.

He has done five exhibitions there in the past three years in various cities in Tuscany, and a few of his pieces have found homes in galleries. In September there was a large exhibition of his work, mostly paintings (“Sculpture is wildly expensive to ship”) in Pisa, with interviews, television spots, and reviews.

“DovBer has an unusual vision,” Esther Leah says. “He never lost his sense of wonder, of looking at shapes and space and understanding their artistic potential. He’s unique. He sees beauty in everything.”