EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with the real artist behind some of the most dramatic painting in the hit Netflix series, Shtisel, Alex Tubis.During the interview, Alex told us how he was selected to "audition" for the behind the scenes role, and the surprise when they selected him for the series. During the interview, you can see commonalities between Alex and the Akiva character played by Michael Aloni. He explained the deeper meaning behind the "fire" in the portrait of Racheli in Season 3, and that he sought the counsel of his teacher who suggested he brighten the flames in the background.Alex Tubis is the real painter behind Akiva Shtisel’s “Boy with a goldfish,” portraits of Libbi, Racheli and some other works from the show. Born in Moscow, he came to Israel with his family at the age of 12. Being mainly inspired by the great film directors Andrei Tarkovsky and Kziztof Kishlovsky in his high school years, Tubis decided to be a painter after seeing the works from Diego Velasquez and Paolo Veronese. In the works of those great masters he could see the same things he is trying to perceive in his own art – unsurpassed level of truth, intimacy, sculpted light which provides divine beauty mixed with sadness of being. Alex’s paintings subjects vary from people who are closest to him to unremarkable from the first sight Israeli landscapes that he sees around him. People react to his painting as “capturing time” and “eternal polaroid”. Tubis is a lecturer for drawing and painting at the Bezalel academy in Jerusalem.        

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