Tal R - Contemporary Artists

Sisters of Kolbojnik

Sisters of Kolbojnik The Saatchi Gallery
 

Tal R

Sisters of Kolbojnik

2002
Oil on Canvas

250 x 250cm

‘I do painting a bit like people make a lunch box,' Tal R explains, ‘I constantly have this hot-pot boiling and I throw all kinds of material into it.' 'Kolbojnik', the Hebrew word for leftovers, is more than appropriate to describe his home-baked painting style: imaginary pastoral scenes based on his everyday life, rendered in guttural faux abstraction, canvases often literally collaged together like a visual goulash. Sisters of Kolbojnik, depicting an earthy gang of shaggy-haired, bell-bottomed nymphs in a magic-mushroom forest, is a celebration of overlooked wall-flower beauty, as socially inclusive as a community mural.
 
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