Tal R
Babylonia
09 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
TAL R
"Frankfurt", 2015
crayon, gouache on paper
38 x 28 cm
front side monogramed, back side titled, dated, signed
"Frankfurt", 2015
crayon, gouache on paper
38 x 28 cm
front side monogramed, back side titled, dated, signed
TAL R
"Ritze", 2015
crayon, gouache on paper
21 x 29 cm
front side monogramed, back side titled, dated, signed
"Ritze", 2015
crayon, gouache on paper
21 x 29 cm
front side monogramed, back side titled, dated, signed
TAL R
"New Girls", 2015
crayon on paper
20 x 21 cm
front side monogramed, back side titled, dated, signed
"New Girls", 2015
crayon on paper
20 x 21 cm
front side monogramed, back side titled, dated, signed
TAL R
"Dirty Dick", 2016
crayon on paper
24 x 30 cm
front side monogramed, back side titled, dated, signed
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"Dirty Dick", 2016
crayon on paper
24 x 30 cm
front side monogramed, back side titled, dated, signed
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TAL R
Babylonia
9 September – 21 October 2017
Contemporary Fine Arts is pleased to announce the exhibition “Babylonia,” with drawings by the Danish artist Tal R (b. 1967 in Tel Aviv). This is the artist’s twelfth exhibition with the gallery since 1999.
Siegfried Gohr writes in the exhibition catalogue:
“Over the past few years, Tal R has amassed an archive of more than a thousand photographs of sex shop façades. Between 2014 and 2017, he made around 150 drawings based on the contents of the archive. The façades’ advertisements signal the diverse origins of the images: the English, Italian, German, French, and Danish names indicate their different locations. The storefronts alternate between exuberant and sparse, colorful and inconspicuous. Doors, windows, and signs comprise the essential elements of the façades. Occasionally, women’s bodies appear in the compositions, others are decorated with floral motifs or heart patterns, architectural ornaments, and awnings. The effect oscillates between ordinary and exotic. Some of the façades maintain silence about their function, others blatantly advertise their services. The French names sound romantic, the German ones vulgar or general. Customers will likely react appropriately to the information each façade provides. From “Shop,” where purchases can be made, to Villa “Les Roses,” where dreams come true, everything is available.”
In the series, Tal R flirts only in part with the scandalous and lewd nature of the subjects; what lies behind the sex shop façades often cannot be seen. Instead, the works serve much more as metaphors for viewing and understanding images. Their meaning reveals itself to viewers first through curiosity for that which is concealed or cloaked – the “back room,” as Tal R calls it – allowing their imaginations to wander.
The 64-pages catalogue will be published by Snoeck (ISBN 978-3-86442-228-7) at the price of EUR 24.80.
Parallel to our exhibition, the book store Buecherbogen at Savignyplatz presents a shop window with numerous, partly out-of-print artist books, catalogues and other publications of Tal R: http://www.buecherbogen-shop.de/
Babylonia
9 September – 21 October 2017
Contemporary Fine Arts is pleased to announce the exhibition “Babylonia,” with drawings by the Danish artist Tal R (b. 1967 in Tel Aviv). This is the artist’s twelfth exhibition with the gallery since 1999.
Siegfried Gohr writes in the exhibition catalogue:
“Over the past few years, Tal R has amassed an archive of more than a thousand photographs of sex shop façades. Between 2014 and 2017, he made around 150 drawings based on the contents of the archive. The façades’ advertisements signal the diverse origins of the images: the English, Italian, German, French, and Danish names indicate their different locations. The storefronts alternate between exuberant and sparse, colorful and inconspicuous. Doors, windows, and signs comprise the essential elements of the façades. Occasionally, women’s bodies appear in the compositions, others are decorated with floral motifs or heart patterns, architectural ornaments, and awnings. The effect oscillates between ordinary and exotic. Some of the façades maintain silence about their function, others blatantly advertise their services. The French names sound romantic, the German ones vulgar or general. Customers will likely react appropriately to the information each façade provides. From “Shop,” where purchases can be made, to Villa “Les Roses,” where dreams come true, everything is available.”
In the series, Tal R flirts only in part with the scandalous and lewd nature of the subjects; what lies behind the sex shop façades often cannot be seen. Instead, the works serve much more as metaphors for viewing and understanding images. Their meaning reveals itself to viewers first through curiosity for that which is concealed or cloaked – the “back room,” as Tal R calls it – allowing their imaginations to wander.
The 64-pages catalogue will be published by Snoeck (ISBN 978-3-86442-228-7) at the price of EUR 24.80.
Parallel to our exhibition, the book store Buecherbogen at Savignyplatz presents a shop window with numerous, partly out-of-print artist books, catalogues and other publications of Tal R: http://www.buecherbogen-shop.de/