About Tal R

Tal R’s practice embraces painting, sculpture and applied art, developing a rich, layered visual language that feels intuitive and playful. Tal R says of his creative process: ‘I paint a bit like people make a lunch box. I have this hot pot constantly boiling and I throw all kinds of materials in it.’ This metaphor reflects his open and associative working method, in which influences from various sources merge into a new visual language. His sculptures are often assemblages of found objects and everyday materials, which he often casts in bronze. This method gives everyday objects a new aesthetic and symbolic value. For the work Bat from 2019, which he shows at ARTZUID, he chooses a different method of plastic shaping with clay. Bat is a hybrid figure, an animal with human features. Note the perky heel- in particular. The sculpture balances between the rough and the refined, the figurative and the abstract. His work invites the viewer to reconsider the boundary between art and the everyday, where the ordinary takes on something unexpected and poetic.