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pink yellow brown
black green white red
press release
Tal
R
From May 20th to July 2nd 2005
It
is a great pleasure to present Pink, Yellow, Brown, Black, Green,
White, Red, an exhibition with new paintings by Tal R. The seven
colours from the title of the exhibition have been the primary choice
of expression for Tal R during the last two years. However, in the
works for this exhibition the artist also employs to new important
strategies:
Strips
of paper run from edge to edge of each painting. Tal R plays with
fronts and depths, not settling in favour of one but allowing both
to exist simultaneously. Instead of using colour directly, Tal R
has in some instances made it into text. Drawn from the perimeter
of the painting, these white areas seem to signify where the otherwise
static figures of the painting are subjected to change.
The
following paintings are part of the exhibition:
Princess
sets a rendezvous between a captain and a pink mare.
The painting Fugle og Frugter features a tree with a hole in its
trunk. Black birds fly up and the fruits fall down transforming
into words.
In Sailing to egg we see a ship sailing across the canvas before
disappearing behind a strip paper.
Four swords crossed over form the basis of Rank, Name, and Departure.
Several sailor-like persons inhabit Gate to Pink. One rings at the
gate, another pees up against the wall, and a third is hanged.
Svarta Blomma presents an urban landscape with a black gate at its
centre.
In Made in Heaven pink figures drop from the sky only to be devoured
by fish below. The artist has done seven paintings in seven months.
The task resembles that of a fairytale and ideally express Tal RŐs
way of diving into the narratives that surround us. Stories, that
flow through our families and sinks into our culture.
In connection with the exhibition we will show Tal R's film A ship
is not an Island which was made in collaboration with Jesper Fabricius
og Steen Møller Rasmussen. The film documents the artistŐs
recent creation of a major painting for the new Opera in Copenhagen.
It is distributed by Space Poetry, jf@spacepoetry.dk. We will also
show documentation of Last Dance before Mars, a modern dance play
directed by Ari Rosenzweig, and with stage design by Tal R.
We are happy to welcome you in the gallery.
With kind regards
Galleri Nicolai Wallner
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