TAL R :

Shortly before he turned fifty, we had the unique pleasure of spending six months with Danish artist Tal R, while he was in the process of making his grand series of nine enormous railcar-paintings, ‘Habakuk’. Watch the intimate and biographical film.
“There’s one character, in the world of characters, that I like the most, and that character is the colon.” Tal R uses the colon to illustrate the relationship between the past, present and future. In this film, Tal R - on the brink of turning fifty - looks forwards as well as backwards and shares what being an artist and a human being means to him, and why the two can’t be separated.
It’s the pictures that have something capricious within them that truly touches the Danish painter: “If you want an aesthetic discussion about when a picture is fabulous, it’s when something in the picture is an unpredictable movement.” Furthermore, as an artist, you have to be as mystified as the observer: “For instance, if an artist paints a store front, part of the drama is imagining what’s inside the store.”
What happens when something from the outside “breaks” or “besmirches” culture? Tal R feels that this is when progress happens: “Within most contexts it’s a catastrophe if you don’t speak the language, but I think nothing opens up language more than those so-called linguistic catastrophes.”
Tal R (b. 1967) is a Danish painter and former guest professor at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Born Tal Rosenzweig in Tel Aviv to a Danish mother and Czechoslovakian Jewish father, the family moved to Denmark, where Tal R was raised. The title of the series of paintings featured in the film, ’Habakuk’ (2017), is Tal R and his sister’s nickname for their father. Tal R is widely considered to be one of the main forces in bringing painting back after conceptual art dominated the art scene in the 1990s. His work has been shown internationally, e.g. at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Aarhus, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin, Camden Arts Centre in London and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.
Tal R was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg and Marc-Christoph Wagner from December 2016 to May 2017.
A film by: Kasper Bech Dyg and Marc-Christoph Wagner
Camera: Klaus Elmer
Additional footage: Nikolaj Jungersen & Rasmus Quistgaard
Edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg & Klaus Elmer
Soundmix: Torsten Larsen
Produced by: Kasper Bech Dyg and Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2017
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[@edwardferry8247]

listening to someone who also suffers through this process, a way of being, whether through circumstances we become or through genealogical chance we just are. He is someone you would like to meet and talk with to feel a little less alone. Thank you for posting this.

[@yosephoshi1574]

how he speak about his works is mesmerizing. super.

[@lutze5086]

"its all bullshit but this was my only option left. im playing the part so give me my money now please"

[@ziranmen]

I love Tal and his work , I've watched this video about half a dozen times. There is a point at which he has these paintings looking really nice, 28:56 is a good example. The painting is multi layered, complex and naive at the same time and has the feeling and colors of a rusty old freight train. They're not completely finished here, a little bit more here n' there + his writing and dates etc..but 90% of the way to finished. Yet he continues to paint over all this good work and feeling. Its like he had and end result in mind and looked past his hard work and what he had developed. I feel like he thought himself out of these paintings with his ideas of fading them into darker colors. His concepts won in the end and he did what he felt was right. But I feel the unconscious work, the layers and wearing himself out as he puts it , were the real inspired true paintings. Just my thoughts though.... love you Tal. Thanks to Louisiana Channel for this great story.

[@magnuskallas]

Same here. It reminded me of my native Estonian flag. Alas, he went muddy. With even best intentions I can't say his final vision was worth it.

[@andibell3058]

Very great teacher- Also, the phone call about needing to get rid of a smelly corpse was hilarious. :D :D

[@Creativeassemblages]

So love your selection of artists. This was a brilliant and thought provoking film. Just wish we could have seen the paintings up on the walls in the gallery at the end.

[@BotondBokor]

Can’t help to think that his paintings are so good half way through. There’s something of Per Kirkeby in them. Great interview!

[@barbarahenninger6642]

That was wonderful! I really enjoyed watching this. I love Tal R's art, and he's a good story teller, too.

[@jackgalmitz]

Finally, exciting. Like music and the instrument in one.

[@sebastianmelmoth685]

Totally convoluted and bamboozling - but so very entertaining.

[@yearofthedragonjane]

Every single thing he said was fire and I relate very much. Love this.

[@georgwachberg1242]

it's so wonderful that i now can listen to people like this. so ... wonder full.

[@clamda]

great artist

[@cathyalexiou6010]

beautiful !!!!

[@lisengel2498]

Very interesting to be invited into the mystery of what it is about To be invited into his art, his reflections on the feeling of finding the content and the reason to make an image, and to be invited into bits of the creative painting process, and to hear about the reflections of Tal R and how his life accumulate into ideas and that something happens that open into stretching the Imagination and coming to places where you Fall in and out of language - and to keep the mystery open

[@suzannedesylva3805]

Astonishing.....

[@carlosrivas2012]

si no es arte, si es pésimo dibujo, si no es creativo, hazlo enorme, inmenso. es la regla de los posmodernos,

[@johnmadruga6805]

I just discovered this artist and his art:::::::::: sheer magic: beauty. What a beautiful human. I would like to know what paints he uses?

[@yearofthedragonjane]

To the people posting negative comments like "THIS IS ART?! HA!" -- What is actually truly awkward is that by saying that, you are showing off the fact that you can't grasp the Art... Unknowingly and defiantly outwardly declaring your lack of genius.

[@cliffdariff74]

Really? Disagreement makes one lacking.

[@flutonubran294]

Okay, so you obviously as do many know what is art. Mind explaining what it is and why? And also how its represented on his works, ty

[@luiscruz5556]

you as an observer, viewer of art bring yourself to the art as much as the artist brings themselves. artists may or may not be conscious of the content of their art: the meaning, the message, the feeling being evoked and presented. to me, good art is like life: it's one big, uncomfortable mystery that you have to sit with and work through, basically all by yourself. if you have half a brain, you don't go through life letting every one and every thing around you tell you what to do, think, and be next. you work through these things, and you let them work through you. the same with art. it's nice to learn theory, history, et cetera, but standing in front of a piece of art and viewing -- really viewing it -- for half an hour, two hours, two weeks, two years, visiting and re visiting it -- this is how you learn to view and grasp art, just as much as you learn to be human. it's a complex and unnerving skill that most would prefer not to engage in. we want the security and safety of being able to say: 'this is the one true right way to live my life" or "this is a picture of a train" without the uncertainty or additional work, when in reality things are more complex and uncertain than this. i reckon that's at least part of why so many get so uptight over modern works.

[@charityw1020]

Thank you 😊

[@damookie]

fantastic

[@brianhuetteman4926]

I wish I could think the way this man does...suppose I’ll have to settle for my own mind

[@olusha]

Wonderful! Incredibly inspiring. Thank you.

[@brokendamas]

Thank you

[@AX1A]

Very Inspiring. Much Needed. PS I was diggin @27:37 ? IMO, should not have paint over it

[@JohnMoseley]

Yeah, I was looking at it at that point going, 'No! Don't do it! Leave it alone.' And then it all just went black and blue. Bummer.

[@Foto22417]

Wonderful :)

[@MonicaHenrietteKr]

Åhh tror du han har en ekstra lejlighed til os der kan lide og hænge ud sammen spørg hans bankbog Den ligger i boksen ❤🎉

[@Chron_Dawg78]

wonderful

[@hughiedavies6069]

I liked the way he described the way he thinks about his art being a sort of superpower from about 30 minutes in

[@JohnMoseley]

Did he specially dress up in black and white for the black and white painting?

[@JohnMoseley]

At 42:45 it's perfect. He's even sitting on a black chair, which makes a stripe across his white t-shirt as he sits in front of the picture. It's like he's merging with the picture.

[@stefanstern3542]

Yup.

[@kingafendikingafendi8897]

It a muzium pieces nice collectible

[@afifde]

Can someone explain to me what he is trying to describe at the first scene? I didnt exactly get the "colon" symbol.

[@madsjuulmunch3754]

That there is life lived behind the colon - and mystery in front of the colon i suggest.

[@Creativeassemblages]

The colon is a pause in life. The reflection on what comes before and after. Like the moon in water is its reflection. A continual movement between the dots. Love the :

[@artklochkov1194]

Good

[@MonicaHenrietteKr]

Nå vil alle nu være venner med dig kender du mon en rigtig ægte berømthed? Nej jeg trækker mig og smiler til dem der kender min personlighed Kunst kan man altid lave

[@oscarivanmartinez3473]

Traducción al español por favor 🎊🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jimmmmmmmmmmmmmy]

24:00 :

[@土の竜]

単純な結果のための膨大なプロセス　しかしプロセスの省略可は芸術の意味を失わせてしまうのかもしれない

[@MonicaHenrietteKr]

Du er hævnet Osse in space

[@MonicaHenrietteKr]

Åhh så blev hun glad hende intet Hun fik sine fire komma to minutters berømmelse pyt Vi skal nok klare os uden berømmelse intet og Monica. vi er nemlig det samme

[@MonicaHenrietteKr]

Thank im not in sane

[@madsappeal]

It seems to me that the cheapest trick in art is just to blow something up in size, and it will automatically appear much better than it is. I liked the interview but I didnt find the paintings too interesting.

[@brokendamas]

theres no trick

[@dimitrilikissas]

That’s completely true! Damien Hirst is doing that as well, it makes them so much more majestic, impressive; whatever you paint on them.

[@cheddarbaby]

I had literally no idea what he was talking about the entire time. He seems to just talk in long meandering sentences that go nowhere but sound important.

[@cliffdariff74]

Exactly

[@airmark02]

Modern Art talk usually involves a 45 minute conversation about a 3 minute idea

[@ninarodin4249]

Hmm. As a painter, I felt like he was putting things into words that O just know but haven’t ever tried to express.

[@carlosrivas2012]

pura porqueria disfrazada de arte

[@sculptor3d]

You have screwed up every one of those large paintings and I'll bet you don't even know why. You've been overthinking them. Shut that brain up and paint from the heart, you might make a good painting.

[@airmark02]

rambling *art talk* with what appears to be messy ugly paintings ... not feeling it ~ sorry

[@mikegameroart]

Hahhahahahahahahahahahaa This is Art? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cliffdariff74]

Ding ding ding! Thank god someone finally said it 🙂

[@Homunculas]

Why is the notion of craft and excellence so foreign to the elites that support "artists" like this? I'd reckon that most of the commenter's calling this great art would not listen to jarring discordant "music" like Karlhienze Stockhausen or Yoko Ono much easier to let cognitive dissonance dominate consciousness in regards the visual, the audible, not so much.Sad

[@JohnSmith-bw6pv]

the people who think this is good art are just really fucking stupid, problem solved

[@gabrielhopson1553]

Did you see how many colors he was using and layering? You're glancing over the work, I think.

[@JohnSmith-bw6pv]

Did you not see how bad it is? You're pretentious, I think.

[@JohnSmith-bw6pv]

btw the layering was amazing i loved all the colors i couldn't see too..

[@gabrielhopson1553]

I think that's a hang-up that some people have, but in addition to some of the under-layers which strongly or subtly affect the colors, I think there's great value conceptually in obscuration. Another point is that we're talking about work which we see on the screen, instead of in-person, which is probably not the way the artist would want us to see it.

[@cliffdariff74]

Dare I say.....not inspired. The more money and fame an artist gets, the more words they need to sell their work.

[@Evan-ke2lo]

offensive to the sense of beauty

[@thenicaron1]

It might be, so it's kind of a good thing that it's been a hundred years since art isn't about beauty and flowers and landscapes and bowls of fruit anymore.

[@nicolasfreitag7020]

vain

[@garyreams8123]

What a bunch of delusional self indulgence and baloney. Square yardage does not necessarily make good art. What a waste of canvas and paint.

[@raplicone6695]

Very sad and destructive art. Here we see the pernicious effects of feminism on the male psyche.

[@biocykle]

What?? Sounds like you're seeing what you desperately wish to see.

[@JohnMoseley]

I can't even work out what you're the pernicious effect of.

[@cliffdariff74]

Certainly something went wrong with these paintings, that’s for sure.

[@MonicaHenrietteKr]

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