ACADEMY OF TAL R.

Author: Kold, Anders, and Jorgensen, Laerke Rydal, ed.
Country: London
Language: English
Year Published: 2017
No. of pages: 224
Illustrations: 143 Color Illustrations. 22 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 12”x 10”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 9783960981541
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh.
Code: 7113

Price: $75.00

Joyously chromatic and brimming with reckless vitality, the paintings, drawings and collages of Danish artist Tal R (born 1967) are anything but academic--hence the ironic title of this overview, which surveys works from the past 20 years of his vast output as well as a series of new works. Tal R has been a storyteller from the outset of his career in the 1990s, always hovering between figuration and abstraction with a special eye for the overlooked, hidden and repressed spaces of modern life. "I do painting a bit like people make a lunch box," he once declared. "I constantly have this hot-pot boiling and I throw all kinds of material into it." While the artist is well known as a prolific publisher of artist's books (usually gathering specific bodies of work), Academy of Tal R is the most substantial overview of his diverse ouevre yet published.