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Tal R – Upstairs, 2005. Pigment and rabbit glue on canvas, 200 x 172 cm. Galleri Bo Bjerggaard. Photo: Anders Sune Berg
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Tal R - The Bend, 2016. Pigment and rabbit-skin glue on canvas, 172 x 140 cm. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk Donation: The New Carlsberg Foundation
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Tal R – Adieu Interessant, 2005-2008. Mixed media, 250 x 250,5 x 4,4 cm. The Ekard Collection
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Tal R - Heavy Hair, 2002. Oil, crayon, glitter, pencil and paper on linen, 200 x 200cm. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk. Acquired with funding from I.F. Lemvigh Müllers Fond and the Estate of Niels Finn Aagaard Bendtsen
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Tal R – Swan Lake, 2016. Mixed media, rotating plinth
Exhibition
Academy of Tal R
14 Oct 2017 – 14 Jan 2018
Event times
Tuesday to Sunday, from 11.00 am to 5.00 pm.
Cost of entry
15 euros, visitors under the age of 18 are admitted free of charge
Address
- Museumpark 18
- Rotterdam
South Holland - 3015 CX
- Netherlands
"Academy of Tal R" surveys the Danish artist’s career from the past 20 years and presents new works specifically created for the exhibition. This will be the most substantial exhibition of works by the multi-disciplinary artist mounted to date.
About
From 14 October 2017 until 14 January 2018, the major exhibition rooms of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will be filled with the impressive work of Tal R (Tal Shlomo Rozenzweig, b. 1967).
Initially known for his flamboyant, colourful paintings featuring exuberant imagery, Tal R’s oeuvre today consists of works in drawing, print, textile, sculpture and furniture. The artist’s early paintings demonstrate profound understanding of painterly tradition while giving the impression of simplicity. Art historical references abound: Dadaism, Expressionsim, Fauvism, and nods to traditional Scandinavian art, Art Nouveau and outsider art run throughout the works. His more recent paintings see an evolution in his methodology, both compositionally and in the application of paint. In addition to his paintings, Tal R is well known for his unique, hand-made sofas, or ‘opiumbeds’, made a from old and new rugs sourced throughout Scandinavia then treated in the artist’s studio in Copenhagen.
Tal R refrains from a single aesthetic style: often using the Hebrew word ‘kolbojnik’ to desribe his practice of sourcing and combining a distinctive range of imagery from high and low culture across genres, he plays with the permeable boundary between art and life. Since the early days of his career, Tal R has been a storyteller, continuously interested in the different lives of subjects often overlooked or marginalised in modern society. With his multifaceted oeuvre Tal R draws our attention to what we’re seeing and where its meaning may lie.
Academy of Tal R invites visitors to Tal R’s unique world. The welcoming and energetic nature of the artist’s studio in Copenhagen — at times a place of quiet and reflection, at others home to assistants, family, friends and pets — will be recreated at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Its special ambience has inspired the exhibition design and a programme of public activities taking place both inside and outside the galleries, bringing the enormous power of Tal R to Rotterdam.
