书名：Tal R (Contemporary Painters Series) / 塔尔·R（当代艺术家系列）
定价：420.0
ISBN：9781848222311
作者：Martin Herbert
版次：1
出版时间：2019-01

内容提要：

书名：Tal R (Contemporary Painters Series)  / 塔尔·R（当代艺术家系列）

作者：Martin Herbert

出版：Lund Humphries，2019年

装帧：精装，144页

语种：英文

尺寸：24*28 cm

 

 

本书深入评介以色列裔丹麦艺术家塔尔·R（生于1967年）的绘画创作。这位艺术家的作品充满谜语特质，通过一种游走于具象与抽象之间的视觉拼图——被艺术家自称为"Kolbojnik"（希伯来语"残羹"之意）——巧妙平衡个人经验与宏大历史叙事。

 

塔尔·R的画作极具独特性，又融汇了广阔的绘画史视野，其灵感来源纷繁多元，涵盖野兽派、象征主义与民间艺术。在浅观者眼中，这些作品描绘着人、地、物的混合体；但细察之下，它们实为充满思辨的概念场域，将看似简单的分类拆解重构，成为物质材料（包括拼贴、摄影与雕塑）与意义双重维度的"建筑工地"。

 

对于所有研习与热爱绘画者而言，塔尔·R的作品与克里斯·奥菲利或劳拉·欧文斯等艺术家异曲同工，为绘画在现代主义与后现代主义之后开辟了一条无需辩白的新途，使"绘画已死"的陈词滥调不攻自破。本书将权威呈现这条艺术道路至今所经历的蜿蜒轨迹。

 

This book assesses the paintings of Tal R (b. 1967), an Israeli-born Danish artist whose enigmatic work offers intersections of personal experience and wider history through a visual jigsaw, finely balanced between representation and abstraction, of what the artist has termed "Kolbojnik," a Hebrew term for leftovers.

 

Tal R's paintings are exceptionally idiosyncratic yet informed by an expansive view of the history of painting, with a diverse range of references including Fauvism, Symbolism and folk art. To the casual observer, his works depict amalgams of people, places and things. But deeper scrutiny reveals them as complex conceptual playgrounds where these seemingly simple categories are exploded and examined as "construction" sites of both literal material (including collage, photography and sculpture) and meaning.

 

For all students and lovers of painting, Tal R's works, like those of Chris Ofili or Laura Owens, have cleared a pathway for painting to continue after modernism and postmodernism without apology, beyond the worn-out "death of painting" mantra. The text offers an authoritative account of the twists and turns that path has taken so far.