Tal R - Contemporary Artists

Shamotte

Tal R, Shamotte The Saatchi Gallery
 

Tal R

Shamotte

2001 Pen on Paper

21 x 29.5cm

Tal R's drawings of teenage bedrooms are infused with awkward embarrassment; the secure dens of iniquity of immature fantasy and unfulfilled lust. Crammed with overwhelming information, Tal R delights in drawing the ephemera of adolescent identity crisis: Japanese lanterns, slickly ferns, tattered bongos and head-shop posters, the trade fare of rebellious fashion. Tal R captures this child/adult inbetweeness at its most vulnerable moment: pants down, Shamotte is both funny and cringe-worthy.
 
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