TAL R – BOY LOOKING AT THE SUN
2024-09-16Working across a diverse range of media including painting, drawing, print, textiles, sculpture, and furniture, Tal R questions our conceptions and presumptions about our surrounding reality. Through his own systematization of the world, with what he calls his “artist mathematics”, he tries to understand the physical world he sees before him and the abstract objects he knows by thought alone. When you approach the works by Tal R you will usually find something very concrete and figurative. Something you can describe to someone on the phone, using simple words. Then, at a closer look, you’ll discover something awkward – something sticky. It is as if you would walk a staircase. Suddenly there is a missing step and you are in mid-air. Something that looked playful and happy at one moment can have a weird other reading. It can turn into something disturbing, even uncanny. Like a dream, his works break down the conventional concepts of space and time and reveal certain aspects of human nature that other disciplines cannot. “That is what makes art so important for society,” according to the artist, “because it is the “ghost” in the machine.”
Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2024
Tim Van Laere Gallery
Palazzo Donarelli Ricci
Via Giulia 98
00186 Rome
