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Tala Madani — Spitting Candles
Tala Madani

Spitting Candles

2007

"Spitting Candles" by Tala Madani is an oil on linen painting that exemplifies the Israeli artist's provocative approach to figuration and bodily representation. The work features Madani's characteristic style of depicting grotesque or transgressive scenes with painterly expressionism, combining crude physicality with refined technical execution. Like much of her practice, the painting engages with themes of vulnerability, excess, and the abject through distorted human forms and unsettling scenarios.

Medium
oil on linen

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Tala Madani, Spitting Candles, 2007

"Spitting Candles" by Tala Madani is an oil on linen painting that exemplifies the Israeli artist's provocative approach to figuration and bodily representation. The work features Madani's characteristic style of depicting grotesque or transgressive scenes with painterly expressionism, combining crude physicality with refined technical execution. Like much of her practice, the painting engages with themes of vulnerability, excess, and the abject through distorted human forms and unsettling scenarios.

Medium
oil on linen
Year
2007
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Body Horror, Grotesque Aesthetic, Provocative Subject Matter, Visceral and unsettling mood, 21st Century, Israeli Artist, Oil Painting, Large Scale Canvas, Contemporary Art, Figurative

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