Yuval Caspi, an Arab with a Purple Mustache

Yuval Caspi showed this impressive work, titled an Arab with a Purple Mustache, on the Yavne exhibition of Israeli artists painting Magen David, last May; curator was Roni Reuven.
The work is on laminated wood and it is an homage to famous Israeli painter Rafi Lavi who started the trend of painting on laminated wood. Also, there’s a Magen David drawn in a very thin line, which reminds us of Rafi Lavi’s Magen David. The Star of David surrounds an Arab with a purple mustache, a kind of a joke about the name of Rafi Lavi’s exhibition titled an Arab with a purple mustache, in which there was no such Arab. Yuval said in an interview with Eli Eshed
(In Hebrew) that the Arab in this work seems angry because he represents the fear of the West from the Muslim Fundamentalists that want to kill us all.
copyright: Yuval Caspi 2007