Tal R

Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003

Berlin, Contemporary Fine Arts, Tal R: At the Foot of Mount Fuki, September - October 1999 

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate, although the feet are slightly browner in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet light.
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“When I was a child – a lot of kids know this – most of my day was spent living in fantasy. I was never interested in art as a child, but I was always drawing. Drawing was not about creating images for other people; it was simply about being in a fantasy. The older I get, when I look at my own life and other people’s lives, I wonder how much of the time is actually fantasy... What is actually the fantasy and what is real? In a clinical sense, it’s a dangerous thing to ask, and you probably shouldn’t fool around with these things, but for most people, this is very real. Am I dreaming or am I not dreaming? Is this real or is it actually something I imagined? Is it true or is it a lie?" (Tal R. in conversation with Emily Friedman, The Editorial Magazine, No. 15, online).