Artist Talk – Tal R. and exhibition curator David Neuman (English)

Anna-Lena Werner: Tal, how did you react when David Neuman, the curator of your current show “: Men Who Can’t Sit On Horses”, approached you with the idea to paint a painting in the exact same size as “Guernica” for Magasin III in Tel Aviv?
TAL R: To ask any painter something like that is just another way of saying “I’m going to kill you”. [1]
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Neuman and Tal R will discuss the circumstances in which the painting “The Night” was created and what had accrued later on.

An artist of international renown, Tal R (Rosenzweig) was born in 1967 in Tel Aviv, Israel and at an early age moved to Copenhagen, Denmark where he currently lives and works. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Between 2005-2014 Tal R held a Professorship at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. Tal R has exhibited internationally, in both solo and group exhibitions.

David Neuman, Co-Founder and Chairman of Magasin III, Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art from Stockholm Sweden, which opened it’s permanent satellite in Jaffa in January 2018. The museum, considered one of Europe’s leading institutions for contemporary art, has been operating since 1987. Neuman is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Museum in Stockholm, one of the founders of the MA Curatorial Studies program at Stockholm University, and a co-founder of the Accelerator – a space where art and science meet at Stockholm University.