I do painting a bit like people make a lunch box,' Tal R explains, ?I constantly have this hot-pot boiling and I throw all kinds of material into it.' 'Kolbojnik', the Hebrew word for leftovers, is more than appropriate to describe his home-baked painting style: imaginary pastoral scenes based on his everyday life, rendered in guttural faux abstraction, canvases often literally collaged together like a visual goulash. Sisters of Kolbojnik, depicting an earthy gang of shaggy-haired, bell-bottomed nymphs in a magic-mushroom forest, is a celebration of overlooked wall-flower beauty, as socially inclusive as a community mural. 's Melody is like a giant Picasso drug trip. Thematically borrowing from avant-garde assemblage drawings, Tal R swaps violins, Paris caf? tables and newspaper clippings for rock'n'roll guitars, anthem-coloured paint and hefty sheets of canvas. Arranged in a spiralling vortex, his collage has a folksy, hippy-trippy feel about it; a crafty flashback to the sixties. Tal R paints a communal kind of abstraction, as infinitely groovy and commercial as a Beatles box set.
BIOGRAPHY
1967 tal r photo Born in Israel 1986-1988 Billedskolen Kopenhagen 1994-2000 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Kopenhagen
Currently lives and works in Copenhagen
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005 Pink, Yellow, Brown, Black, Green, White, Red Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
2004 House of Prince Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2003 New Born, But Same Old Phone Number Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv Arcade BAWAG, Vienna Lords of Kolbojnik Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2002 Ike og Ancher Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens Fruitland Museum Abteiberg, M'nchengladbach
Tal R's continuous use of a solid band across the bottom of his paintings gives citation to the framing of TV screens; the space above becomes an interchangeable place for action, where images can be substituted like channel surfing. In Fungusia, Tal R imports a trippy spiral of magic mushrooms. Hypnotically mesmerising, his suggestive forms and putrid colours play dizzying tricks of perspective, oozing sickly in their phallic reference.
Sophie von Hellerman is a young German artist working in London. The title of the painting Christo Paffgen is the real name of Warhol prot'g?, Velvet Underground vocalist, and unrepentant lifelong heroin addict Nico. The 1960s icon was infamous for her sexual endeavours and drug abuse. Rather than capture Nico in all her excess von Hellermann chooses to depict her before she lost her beauty, interest in life, and eventually her death in relative obscurity, and mystery, in Ibiza in 1988.
BIOGRAPHY
1975Born in Munich Lives and works in London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Sophie von Hellermann, Greene Naftali, New York
2004 On The Ground, Vilma Gold, London Sophie von Hellermann, Ghislaine Hussenot Gallery, Paris Sophie von Hellermann, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles Sophie von Hellermann, Vacio 9, Madrid
2003 Sophie von Hellermann, Jablonka Linn Luhn Jablonka, Cologne
2001 Sophie von Hellermann, Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany Vusering Hites, Vilma Gold, London Saatchi Gallery Presents Sophie von Hellermann, London Sophie von Hellermann, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Group show, Linn Luhn Jablonka, Cologne Clarke & McDevitt present, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin POST MoDERN, Greene Naftali, New York
2004 The Drawing Project, Vamiali's, Athens Group Show, Marcc Fox, Los Angeles Mothers, Oh! Art, London Britannia Works, British Council, Athens
2003 Art and Mountains, The Alpine Club, London Hydrophobia, Henry Peacock Gallery, London
2002 Dear Painter, paint me..., Pompidou Centre, Paris Group show, Lombard Freid, New York Group show, Artagents Gallery Hamburg Group show, Ghislaine Hussenot Gallery, Paris Mediated Cooperation, collaboration with Johannes Maier OBERWELTE, Stuttgart, Germany We all Love... The Mission, London Electric Show, The Great Eastern Hotel, London
2000 Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
1999 Grup show , Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam Weltausstellung 99/robolove, koelnerstrasse, Dusseldorf Troublespot.Painting, curated by Luc Tymans and Narcisse Tordoir NICC and Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium von Hellermann , Gerhard Richter, Chris Ofili, Paul Morrison, Michael Raedecker, Luc Tymans, Michaelangelo Pistoletto, Marlene Dumas, Kippenberger, Laurence Weiner,Felix Gonzalez-torres, Elsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman, Vincent Geyskens, Ugo Rondinone, John Currin, Robert Gober and Andy Warhol Conclusion: At first glance Thomas Helbig's sculptures appear to be futuristic ruins; bizarre and broken finds hinting at some remote gothic civilisation, glorifying its defunct authority.
Vilma Gold is pleased to present, On the Ground, by Sophie von Hellermann, the inaugural exhibition at new premises on Vyner Street, London E2. Staged prior to the gallery's formal renovation, On the Ground weaves new paintings into the existing fabric of the semi-derelict building.
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