check out the wild works of,
TAL R
b1967 Tel Aviv
Living and working in Copenhagen
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ABOUT
Tal Rosenzweig, know as " TAL R " was born in Tel Aviv in 1967. Tal is a sculptor painter draftsman collage and furniture maker. He currently lives and works in Copenhagen where his parents moved when he was one years old. He studied at the Billedskolen and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Tal also teaches at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His painting style is referred to as ‘kolbojnik’ which literally means “leftovers” or “jack of all trades, ' in Hebrew. Due to his energetic style he has been referred to as a “painting beast”. He draws inspiration from the works of Dumas Picabia and Picasso. He himself has become an example to others. He transforms everything in his environment into art combinings materials and techniques with which he consciously works in a playful and almost absurdist way. Working across a diverse range of media including painting, drawing, print, textiles, sculpture and furniture, Tal R questions our conceptions of and presumptions about our surrounding reality – what we’re seeing and where its meaning lies. With their flamboyant colors and exuberantly painted imagery, the paintings for which he first became known give the impression of being simple, almost turning high art into child's play. While they are certainly direct, with paint often squeezed straight from the tube, his canvases in fact wear their sophistication and intelligence lightly. Central to the work is Tal R's profound understanding of painterly tradition which simultaneously accommodates muscular, expressive brushstrokes used to describe people, objects or places, and a stabilising pictorial format informed in part by formalist abstraction. His early paintings are divided into three horizontal bands which can be read by the viewer as levels of different activity. In later works, insistent verticals or horizontals, cut and layered canvases, starburst forms and borders give the work structure while Tal R's color scheme is often restricted to a handful of hues. In his paintings, he often tempered experimentation with self-imposed restriction in terms of composition and color palette and his most recent paintings see a significant evolution in his methodology – both compositionally and in the application of paint. Created through a process similar to the historical use of distemper, in which pure pigments are mixed with rabbit glue, the canvases glow with Rothko-like intensity. Limiting opportunity for addition and revision, this new process for the artist has resulted in a series of stripped-down compositions, which he describes as 'moving from the periphery of painting to its centre. His practice of sourcing and collecting a wide range of imagery, figurative and abstract, from high and low culture. Installed collectively, Tal’s works can eschew adherence to a single aesthetic style in favour of a non-hierarchical exploration of material and form. His work is held in public collections including: ARKEN Ishøj Denmark ARoS Århus Denmark Art Institute of Chicago Chicago USA Bonnefanten Museum Maastricht Netherlands Bronx Museum of the Arts Bronx New York USA Centre Pompidou Paris France Goetz Collection München Germany Hammer Contemporary Collection Los Angeles USA Kiasma Helsinki Finland Kunsten Ålborg Denmark Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebæk Denmark Magasin III Stockholm Sweden Moderne Museet Stockholm Sweden Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam The Netherlands Statens Museum for Kunst Copenhagen Denmark Walker Art Center Minneapolis USA.
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