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Tal R Cusines 2003 Oil and paper collage on canvas. 200 x 200 cm (78 7/8 x 78 7/8 in). Signed, titled and dated 'Tal R Cusines 2003' on the reverse.
Provenance Victoria Miro Gallery, London Exhibited London, Victoria Miro Gallery, Lords of Kolbojnik, May-June 2003; London, The Saatchi Gallery, The Triumph of Painting, 26 January, 2005 - 30 October, 2005; Leeds City Art Gallery, January, 2006 - 12 March, 2006 Literature The Triumph of Painting exh. cat. The Saatchi Gallery, London, 2005, pp. 172-173 Catalogue Essay Tal R belongs to a group of internationally acclaimed artists who graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in the 1990s. Common amongst this group of painters is a focus on expressive and painterly qualities which combine with personal and sometimes banal subject matter. His imaginary scenes suggest awkward and puerile narratives of the suburban fairy tale. “Tal R is has been described as a ‘painter’s painter’ due to the ease and exuberance of his approach to the medium. In his work the artist establishes vivid, expressive settings within a pictorial framework composed of three zones: a heading used as a palette, a central area in which colour becomes form, and a lower foundation. With these new works, he is characteristically vigorous and painterly, but he introduces fabric, paper and canvas collage in an active attempt to resist a single signature style. Some works then assume, as he puts it with typical irony, a new ‘unhygienic minimalism’ or ‘wild minimalism without puritanism’.” (Press release for exhibition Tal R The Lords of Kolbojnik, at Victoria Miro, London, 17 May – 14 June 2003) Read More