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Tal R

Author: Search for this author Herbert, Martin (author); Tal R (artist)
Statement of Responsibility: Martin Herbert
Year: 2019
Publisher: London, Lund Humphries
Media group: Buch
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This book is the first full-length assessment of the paintings of Tal R (b. 1967), an Israeli-born Danish artist whose enigmatic work offers intersections of personal experience and wider history through a visual jigsaw, finely balanced between representation and abstraction, of what the artist terms 'Kolbojnik', a Hebrew term for leftovers. Tal R's paintings are exceptionally idiosyncratic yet informed by an expansive view of the history of painting, with a diverse range of references including Fauvism, Symbolism and folk art. To the casual observer, his works depict amalgams of people, places and things. But deeper scrutiny reveals them as complex conceptual playgrounds where these seemingly simple categories are exploded and examined as 'construction' sites of both literal material (including collage, photography and sculpture) and meaning. For all students and lovers of painting, Tal R's works, like those of Chris Ofili or Laura Owens, have cleared a pathway for painting to continue after modernism and postmodernism without apology, beyond the worn out 'death of painting' mantra

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Author: Search for this author Herbert, Martin (author); Tal R (artist)
Statement of Responsibility: Martin Herbert
Year: 2019
Publisher: London, Lund Humphries
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Classification: Search for this systematic 709.2, N7023.R16
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ISBN: 978-1-84822-231-1
ISBN (2nd): 1-84822-231-9
Description: 144 Seiten : Illustrationen
Tags: R, Tal
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Language: Englisch
Media group: Buch