Closing Event of the Exhibition Counter Landscape and Book Launch:Talia Israeli

Talia Israeli, “And All the Paintings Will Not Cover” | Friday, 2.1 | 11:00–14:00

Dr. Noam Israeli will speak about the visible and hidden aspects of the human in Talia Israeli’s work.

Yali Sobol will perform a song from his new album “Water on the Rock”.

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The artist’s book “And All the Paintings Will Not Cover” brings together nearly a decade of Israeli’s paintings. The book features images of works from three solo exhibitions, as well as wall paintings that were created and later erased in various exhibitions throughout these years. The paintings are the result of an extended investigation into the medium, which led to a significant evolution and transformation in her artistic practice.

The book focuses on a process centered around working with spray paint and methods that developed from large-scale mural paintings into small-scale wall works and a painting technique applied to alternative surfaces such as old cabinet shelves. Many of the paintings were inspired by Israeli travel guides and hiking books. The book’s visual design draws from the worlds of guidebooks and travel literature, such as “Every Place and Site”. A substantial section is dedicated to work processes and behind-the-scenes glimpses into the studio.

Three accompanying texts are interwoven throughout the book, each reflecting on these bodies of work from a distinct and complementary perspective: material/medium, literary, and research-based. The medium-focused text, written by painter and writer Yair Garbuz, examines the conceptual, formal, creative, and historical aspects of the series “One Of The Mountains” (2020). Additional texts are written by author Oded Wolkstein and curator-architect Einat Gabay-Levy.

The book offers a concluding overview of a major artistic process, bringing together over 100 works that engage with the local landscape and articulate, through the format of the book, new reflections on contemporary painting and on the intense experience of life in Israel. The book was designed by artist and designer Or Segal.