TAL R – BEAUTIFUL BOY (SMUKKE DRENG)
2019-08-12Tal R’s new exhibition Beautiful Boy (Smukke Dreng) at Galleri Bo Bjerggaard consists of paintings, drawings and two films by Emma Rosenzweig. In the gallery’s west wing exhibition space, one is met with portraits of the people who occupy the painter’s home; the painter’s wife, his children and friends, along with still lives of the objects and things that the painter has picked up along the way; a Ukrainian goat, children’s toys and Chinese souvenirs. After nine years with hare glue and pigments, in this new exhibition Tal R has returned to the oil painting. There is great focus on detail and the paintings appear saturated in their abundance. The paintings have a slow quality and a calm, which gives the viewer the opportunity to linger on the motif and the detail. We experience Tal R’s wife and children resting in private moments with ornamental backgrounds. The boys, who show themselves to us in static poses. The still lives of objects found while travelling or in flea markets. While the paintings are made up of layer upon layer of paint, the fifty drawings in the corridor, in a contrast to this, show another kind of calm. The drawings are rooted in a variety of processes: some are sketches for the paintings, while others act as a study of the finished motif.
Opposite – Vertikalt øje, 2019
Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2019
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard
Flæsketorvet 85 A
DK-1711 Copenhagen
Denmark
