Tal R | New Editions

In relaxed poses and everyday situations, Tal R portrays members of his close family in the domestic sphere.

The everyday life of Tal R’s family members is the focus of a new series of prints made with BORCH Editions. Finding inspiration in his close surroundings and relationships, Tal R extracts the essence of these experiences through his own distinct artistic vocabulary. Several of the motifs also appear in more recent paintings by the artist. In the process of repetition, they eventually become not just part of the artist’s retained private memory, but more universal motifs. Similar to the accumulating memories we all keep in images on our phones, the prints by Tal R are extracts of the artist’s enormous image bank and personal life.

Transformations of the artists’ experiences are extracted onto paper in a rich combination of woodcut and etching, that causes the eye to wander between painted brushstrokes of sugar lift aquatint and brightly coloured areas of woodgrain.