Igael Tumarkin
Mixed technique on paper glued to plywood. Is ...

Mixed technique on paper glued to plywood. Is associated with the astronaut series.

34x39 cm

Signed, dated 1969 and framed. 

Igael Tumarkin, a painter, sculptor, Israeli theorist and stage designer, was born in 1933, in Dresden, Germany. In 1935 immigrated to Israel.

in his youth focused on designing figures and forms that are detached from both academic and avant-garde approaches.

In the late 1960s, he was exposed to the Dada movement, pop art, avant-garde art and metal work by Julio Gonzalez.

In 1960 he began to sculpt various scraps and iron.

In 1962 he traveled to Japan and the United States to study techniques of Japanese painting.

During the Yom Kippur War, Tumarkin accompanied the IDF forces as a photographer and military correspondent.

Tumarkin's work has undergone various transformations over the years while adopting new materials and motifs.

Formally, he appears in his works by establishing bold connections between dramatic coloration, rigid geometry, the use of metals alongside soft, organic material.

Various commentators pointed to the complexity of the images in his work.

His paintings and sculptures regularly contain lyrical images and motifs of a high European culture, confronted with a blatantly expressive language, with weapons, and with images of mental and physical vulnerability.