Tal R: The Elephant in the Room
€18
Keyword: 2019-2025, painting, works on paper, sculpture, Danish artist
Size: 215 x 300 mmPages: 110
Format: softcover
Language: English
Editor: Bronwyn Griffith
Preface: Sara Källström
Poetry: Melanie Kitti
Conversation: Bronwyn Griffith, Tal R Book
Book design: Malmsten Hellberg
Printing: Natayana Press
Publisher: Millesgården
Pub Year: 2026
Weight: 461 gr
ISBN: 9789153190004
Exhibition: Millesgården Museum 2026
Description
Article no.: 9789153190004
The book consists of mostly new works from 2025!
From the publisher:
With his distinctive blend of humor and gravity, the internationally acclaimed Danish artist Tal R invites readers into a world where the familiar becomes strange and the overlooked takes center stage. The Elephant in the Room brings together sculpture, painting, and drawing, offering an immersive exploration of perception, memory, and the hidden dynamics of everyday life.
Working across media with a vibrant palette and restless curiosity, Tal R draws inspiration from outsider art, expressionism, fauvism, popular culture, and ordinary objects. His visual language balances playfulness and complexity, transforming the imperfect and the mundane into images and forms charged with unexpected meaning.
At the heart of this publication are works that revolve around the home—its rooms, its atmospheres, and the relationships shaped within its walls. Yet beneath the surface of domestic familiarity lies a subtle sense of unease: a shift in the light, a lingering shadow, a detail that refuses to remain unnoticed. Inspired by the psychoanalytic concept of das Unheimliche (the uncanny), Tal R examines what we see, what we choose to ignore, and what ultimately demands our attention.
Featuring sculptures, paintings, and drawings, including many recent works, The Elephant in the Room offers a compelling insight into one of contemporary art’s most original and imaginative voices.
From the publisher:
With his distinctive blend of humor and gravity, the internationally acclaimed Danish artist Tal R invites readers into a world where the familiar becomes strange and the overlooked takes center stage. The Elephant in the Room brings together sculpture, painting, and drawing, offering an immersive exploration of perception, memory, and the hidden dynamics of everyday life.
Working across media with a vibrant palette and restless curiosity, Tal R draws inspiration from outsider art, expressionism, fauvism, popular culture, and ordinary objects. His visual language balances playfulness and complexity, transforming the imperfect and the mundane into images and forms charged with unexpected meaning.
At the heart of this publication are works that revolve around the home—its rooms, its atmospheres, and the relationships shaped within its walls. Yet beneath the surface of domestic familiarity lies a subtle sense of unease: a shift in the light, a lingering shadow, a detail that refuses to remain unnoticed. Inspired by the psychoanalytic concept of das Unheimliche (the uncanny), Tal R examines what we see, what we choose to ignore, and what ultimately demands our attention.
Featuring sculptures, paintings, and drawings, including many recent works, The Elephant in the Room offers a compelling insight into one of contemporary art’s most original and imaginative voices.