Tal R: Chimney school of sculpture
An exhibition of new work by the Copenhagen-based artist, accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, with essay by Tom Morton, view an online version.
Tal R has often used the word 'kolbojnik', meaning leftovers in Hebrew, to describe his practice of sourcing and collecting a wide range of imagery, figurative and abstract, from high and low culture. Installed collectively, Tal R’s works can give the impression of a group show, as adherence to a single aesthetic style is eschewed in favour of a non-hierarchical exploration of material and form. This is explored in the exhibition, which stages sculptures alongside furniture works and a series of paintings and works on paper.
The lower gallery is populated by a disparate collection of ceramic, creature-like sculptures. Tal R has employed a process of Raku firing, an ancient technique which originated in sixteenth-century Japan. The process produces notoriously unpredictable results – the clay’s surface is blackened or whitened according to the intensity of its exposure to the smoke and is liable to crack or even explode, a volatility that has drawn the artist to the material.
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Tal R: The Wrong Side
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Skye Sherwin writes about Tal R’s House Red in The Guardian
February 2 2019The Danish painter evokes a sense of loss with a colourful palette and sharp geometric lines. Home, sweet home … A staple of the American...Read More
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Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter, Tal R: The Men Who Fell from Earth at Espoo Museum of Modern Art
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Tal R: The Minute at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia
October 5 2018A major exhibition (5 October–16 November 2018) of paintings and drawings, including recent works, by the artist. Read more Image: Tal R, Red Roof ,...Read More
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Tal R: this is not Detroit at MOCA Detroit
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Vogue writes about Tal R: this is not Detroit at MOCA Detroit
May 10 2018At the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Tal R Paints the Michigan Of His Dreams. Julia Felsenthal Detroit has always played an outsized role in...Read More
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Frieze reviews Tal R: Academy of Tal R at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
November 15 2017By Harry Thorne A mint-green boy lingers on a river’s lip with a bottle of milk. A rose-pink woman bends double on a bench, her...Read More -
Tal R: Academy of Tal R at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
October 14 2017Touring from Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek, the exhibition (14 October 2017 – 21 January 2018) features works from the mid-1990s to the present. Read...Read More
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Tal R talks to AnOther ahead of his exhibition, Sexshops
September 20 2017In his latest exhibition, Tal R celebrates the strange, seedy world of the adult entertainment By Holly Black Israeli-Danish artist Tal R first became preoccupied...Read More -
The Quietus reviews Tal R: Academy of Tal R at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
June 24 2017At the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, in Copenhagen, Tal R's paintings and sculptures exhibit something of the emotive non-verbal power of late Rothko. By...Read More
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Tal R: a film by Louisiana Channel
May 23 2017In the run up to his major exhibition, Academy of Tal R at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (until 10 September 2017), the artist...Read More -
Tal R: Academy of Tal R at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
May 20 2017TAL R Academy of Tal R 20.5.2017 - 10.9.2017 Over the past decade Louisiana has established a distinctive collection of works – especially paintings –...Read More
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Tal R in Luther and the Avantgarde
March 21 2017An exhibition (19 May - 17 September 2017) of international contemporary art exploring the spiritual figure of Luther and inspiring ideas of the Reformation. Read...Read More -
Tal R interviewed in Collectors Agenda
September 14 2016In the Studio Tal R Copenhagen Denmark Interview: Michael Wuerges Photos: Florian Langhammer At first glance Tal R’s exuberant colorful paintings may give the false...Read More