CURRENT MISSION

Imporve my painting skills and learn Japanese

ABOUT ME

I am painter and conceptual artist who also teaches languages for a living. I love cooking with friends and staying at the table for hours speaking about ideas and why not singing. This does not mean that I am only brainy of course I love the more "manic" pleasures too. I have studied philosophy, literature, poetry , painting , sculpture, writing, languages with intense interest.I currently work in an art gallery but I am moving to Florance to study for a year starting September 2013. I am leaving Toronto on the 24th of August :)

PHILOSOPHY

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. That's what Kundera says and its stands quite true for me.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I will always be glad to meet or host people (in Florance too)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was vising Montreal and I got to see this city from a local perspective. I than decided to move there!

Interests

I love reading hundreds of quotes

• arts
• writing
• literature
• poetry
• singing
• cooking
• reading
• painting
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Kraftwerk, Sting, Shlomo Artzi, Eyal Golan, Anne Marie-David, Arash, ATB, Charo, Chopin, Clinic, Coldplay, Counting Corws, The Crannberries, Daddy Yankee, Samuel Barber, Debussy, Depeche Mode, Dj Tiesto, Enigma, Enya, Erick Satie, Faithless, U2, Franz Ferdinand, Franz Liszt, Schubert, Jacques Brel, James Blunt, Massenet, MIA, Modest Mouse, Natural Gathering, Oasis, Nirvana, Prdigy, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ron Sexsmith, Sash, Prokofiev, Ths Shins, Shooglenifty, The Storkes, Supemode, Tori Amos, The White Stripes, Yasmin Levy, Yusuf Islam, Emma Schplin; (Italy), Acheenoam Nini; (Israel), John Denver, Karel Kryl; (Czech), Grönemeye; (Germany), kristin chenoweth, Alizee (French), Elliott Smith, Paris Combo; (Fr), Jane Birkin; (FR-ENG), serge gainsbourg; (FR), Coralie Clement; (FR), Nouvel Vagues (FR)´some Brigitte Bardot; (FR), Thomas Fersen, (FR) Sur Caribe; (Cuba),
Marie Laforêt; (Fr)

Books:
Tuesdays with morrie; 1984, George Orwell; Animal Farm, George Orwel; Night, Elie Wiese; , Go Go my Son (Hebrew); Tao Te Ching, Lau Tzu; A short history of progress, Ranold Wright; Last Supper, Herbert Kaufman who is my grandfather (BBC Radio play); Moonstone by Wilkie Collins; Fugitive Piecesm, Anne Michaels; Doctors, eric segal; The Glass Menagerie, Williams; The Bible, God or Moses ( I like some the stories); All of kafka's works that I've read so far; The Tin Drum, Günter Grass; The unbearable lightness of being, Milan Kundera. Mother Night by kurt Vonnogut, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins ( a must read for any thinking person. Heinrich Böll's The Clown

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Attending OCAD University a prestigious school but not pretentious. It in downtown Toronto and I have been in hyper creative mode for three years

Teach, Learn, Share

Could speak about art principles and languages learning (English, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Italian etc,)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Canada, Israel