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
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.
Selected Works Of Ts Spivet
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
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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