Tal R Gretchen S. Hirsch Ignoring warnings not to awaken

Ignoring warnings not to awaken the ogre in the hills

Paying tribute to the long excavation history at Tell el-Hesi

and since he himself left no writings to posterity

In later sections the poet invites us to Hafod Y Llan

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Tal R Gretchen S. Hirsch Ignoring warnings not to awakenThis book assesses the paintings of Tal R (b. 1967), an Israeli born Danish artist whose enigmatic work offers intersections of personal experience and wider history through a visual jigsaw, finely balanced between representation and abstraction, of what the artist terms 'Kolbojnik', a Hebrew term for leftovers. Tal R's paintings are exceptionally idiosyncratic yet informed by an expansive view of the history of painting, with a diverse range of