The Looooooook. 2007.
Oil on canvas.
Bottom center monogrammed and dated "22.11.07". Signed, dated and titled as well as inscribed with the number "TAL/M 299" on the reverse. 200 x 200 cm (78.7 x 78.7 in).
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• Large work from the series "The Look", exhibited in Japan the year it was made.
• Tal R's concept of art is similar to that of German artists like Daniel Richter and Jonathan Meese, whom he had repeatedly exhibited with.
• He uses comics and mass media as sources of inspiration, as well as impulses he gets from his immediate surroundings environment, which he reassembles in his characteristic pictorial language.
• His works are in important public collections like the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebæk, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin) and hav been subject of grand solo shows aroundd the world since the 1990s.

PROVENANCE: Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (with the label on the reverse)
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (with the label on the reverse).

EXHIBITION: The Look, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2007.