About The Work
In Amikam Toren’s work, the most elemental form or mundane object has its very material redeployed to suck out hidden meaning. It’s an alchemical process: a little assistance, a redistribution of resources, is all that is required to reveal the energy and significance contained within dull matter. Object, sign, experience, each and every casually accepted, and more often discarded, mundanity is open to challenge, transformation, and adjustment, teasing out truths beyond its basic nature. Armchair paintings are oil paintings that one can buy at the market and antique shops. In the center of those idealistic and kitsch paintings, Toren cuts out words or sentences, thus updating the painting and recovering the lost quality.
Courtesy of Noga Gallery
About Amikam Toren
Painting
Oil on canvas
31.50 x 23.62 in
80.0 x 60.0 cm
This work is signed by the artist.
About The Work
In Amikam Toren’s work, the most elemental form or mundane object has its very material redeployed to suck out hidden meaning. It’s an alchemical process: a little assistance, a redistribution of resources, is all that is required to reveal the energy and significance contained within dull matter. Object, sign, experience, each and every casually accepted, and more often discarded, mundanity is open to challenge, transformation, and adjustment, teasing out truths beyond its basic nature. Armchair paintings are oil paintings that one can buy at the market and antique shops. In the center of those idealistic and kitsch paintings, Toren cuts out words or sentences, thus updating the painting and recovering the lost quality.
Courtesy of Noga Gallery
About Amikam Toren
- This work is framed. Frame measurements are 35.43" x 27.56".
- Ships in 10 to 14 business days from Israel.
- This work is final sale and not eligible for return.
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