LEE-TAL | INTERLOCK OBJECTS

The goal of my work is to create solutions for artistic and spiritual equations.
– Lee – Tal

Lee -Tal is a New-York based, multi-disciplinary, conceptual pop artist. His academic education includes a duel B. A degree, one in art history and cinema, and the second is in general history. Lee Tal works of art come from the inspiration of “ingredients” and objects we use in our daily life. At the same time, he attempts to dismiss the original purpose by using Abstract geometrical shapes and colors, combining them as an additional The physical layer, and bringing it into a new concept. Since he graduated his academic studies, he became a very active artist, His work can be found in important collections worldwide.

His unique art has been featured globally in Solo shows and group exhibitions around the globe, including at the NDMOA Museum, CICA in Seoul, Tel Aviv museum of art, Masin museum in Mexico, Sejong National Contemporary Art Museum in Seoul, Susquehanna Art Museum and the Whitney Museum in NYC.

I started my interlocked object series back in 2012 when I began to look for a place to relocate myself, and I was in the process of diluting my possessions. During this process, I noticed that particular objects were a kind of attribute for my life; this object allowed me to create a self-portrait version.
The use of geometrical abstract forms and shapes and combining them with three-dimensional objects creates several levels of influences between the object and the background. That allows the object to become something that is not just my own personal reflection, but an object that the viewer can relate to.
Lee – Tal Interview, Published on Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine, August 2018

I’ve always been curious about the gap between sculptures and paintings. This dynamic is a crucial component in my work where both mediums could coexist in a harmonic symbiosis. I want to integrate sculptural concepts into the painted image that becomes an intimate record of our time.

I want to combine the spiritual aspect of conceptual art and the mundane pop-culture objects in pop art together. My claim is those two concepts cannot be separate but have to interlock with one another and so achieve a perfect union of an artwork. The well-defined reductive quality of Minimalism is a big part of my work. The best way to describe my aesthetic is “conceptual-pop” with a Minimal underpinning. The final product is my attempt to merge the two equations.

My work is also influenced by American consumerism and its influence on clothing, houses, cars, etc.
They define our cultural group and political affiliation.
I consider those objects as an unrelated portrait of the consumer.
Therefore my work is a portrait in which the consumer is a concealed presence.

DECONSTRUCTED ARCHITECTURE

I was raised in Tel Aviv, and since 2013 I’ve been working and living in NYC. The work I’m doing is mostly mixed-media wall pieces that integrate sculpting and painting into a single language; I’m calling it conceptual pop works. My work combines a concept that is, on the one hand, influence by clearly defined aspects of Minimalism, while, on the other hand, infused with a pop influence that is recognizable in everyday objects and changes their use by giving them a new context. You could say that I am trying to create pop work with a reductive under-pinning. In that way, I’m trying to create a new trajectory of pop art and culture with an underline of minimal conceptual art.
– Lee – Tal Interview, Published on Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine, August 2018

I was raised in Tel Aviv, and since 2013 I’ve been working and living in NYC.
The work I’m doing is mostly mixed-media wall pieces that integrate sculpting and painting into a single language; I’m calling it conceptual pop works. My work combines a concept that is, on the one hand, influence by clearly defined aspects of Minimalism, while, on the other hand, infused with a pop influence that is recognizable in everyday objects and changes their use by giving them a new context. You could say that I am trying to create pop work with a reductive under-pinning. In that way, I’m trying to create a new trajectory of pop art and culture with an underline of minimal conceptual art.
-Lee – Tal Interview, Published on Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine, August 2018

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