13/08/2026
Focus on Tal R.’s works currently featured in Summertime at Sommer Contemporary Art
Tal R’s work brings together images, references and memories without settling into a single meaning. Flowers, animals, night scenes and everyday objects move freely across his paintings and drawings, where color and instinct often come before interpretation.
He has described this way of gathering images through the Hebrew word « kolbojnik, » literally meaning a plate for leftovers, collecting fragments from different places, high and low, and allowing them to come together on paper or canvas. As he puts it: « I do painting a bit like people make a lunch box (…) I constantly have this hot-pot boiling and I throw all kinds of material into it. »
In Summertime at Sommer Contemporary Art, four works from 2024 reflect this approach, moving between flowers and night hours through drawing, color and repetition. Rather than simply depicting their subjects, the works turn them into recurring elements within a visual language that is distinctly his own.
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© Installation View, Daniel Hanoch © Tal R. The Wolf Hour, 2024, crayon on painted paper, 40 × 30 cm. © Tal R. Untitled Flowers, 2024, crayon and oil pastel on paper, 77 × 57 cm. © Tal R. Midnight, 2024, crayon and oil pastel on paper, 30 × 21 cm. © Tal R. Untitled Flowers, 2024, oil on canvas, 137 × 113 cm.
Courtesy of the artist and Sommer Contemporary Art.
