TAL SLUTZKER / THEM
Tal Slutzker, an artist that explores the subject of madness in visual art and text, In a new solo exhibition of self-portraiture from different perspectives
Opening: Thursday, 12 March 2015 at 19:30. Closing: March 31.
Bernard Gallery , Ben Yehuda Street 170, Tel Aviv.
Opening hours: Monday to Thursday from 10:00 to 13:00 and 16:00 – 19:00
Fridays from 10:00 to 13:00
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The exhibition “them” by Tal Slutzker will open on March 12 at the Bernard Gallery in Tel Aviv.
“Them” will feature works from the years 2012 to 2014, huge paintings along with smaller works. Mostly self-portraits.
From an early age Slutzker identifies himself in the “myth of Narcissus”, the hero of Greek mythology who leaned against the reflection in the lake’s brink of self-infatuation. Slutzker argues that: “We are all
a little bit of Narcissus.”
In his exploration of human madness, he has traveled a to Ingland and was a student of the American psychiatrist Thomas Szasz and of the Spanish realist painter Antonio Lopez Garcia in Spain.
The portraits in the “Them” exhibition presenting Many aspects of the artist’s personality, sometimes he makes self-glorification, sometimes self-distorted.
“Them” – are other consequences of Slutzker. The many faces of a painter who constantly looks at himself in the mirror.
Slutzker’s paintings evoke sensations of chaos and melting materials to create a visual world that cannot be formulated into expressed law through words.
The artist is influenced by traditional painting and dialogues with modern and contemporary works from the second half of the 20th century (like the works by Francis Bacon and others) to those of today.
It seems that the artist experiences reality as a prisoner and then redeems his soul’s experiences of suffering through subtle expressive brush strokes that transfer hidden violence to the viewer.
Indeed Slutzker protests forced hospitalization and hosted several “poetry readings nights” and conventions about madness.
Slutzker’s painting leads the viewer into districts of madness. It reveals the beauty of a particularly strong imagination while exposing him to a world of ugliness that is hidden in mental hospitals.
Slutzker works with thick layers of paint, in some of the works he plays with the painting, which opens to him new creative horizons.
These days you can find Slutzker painting at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, in which he recently took part in
a group exhibition.
Sometimes he paints with his shoe, with a sock dressed on it and dipped in color, sometimes he takes a tube of paint and throws out all the paint at once.
Tal Slutzker (28) paints and writes (poetry, prose and art’s theory). He explores madness, the relationships between painting and literature, and madness in representational art. He was discovered as a talented artist while still being a child and showed in solo exhibitions. He was marked as a child prodigy and never ceased to soar. According to the definition of Professor Gabriel Moked Tal is truly
a Renaissance man.
