Tal R: Academy of Tal R at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Over the past decade Louisiana has established a distinctive collection of works – especially paintings – by the Danish artist Tal R (b. 1967). It is therefore natural to round off the Louisiana trilogy of contemporary artists with painting as their central practice: Peter Doig in 2015, Daniel Richter in 2016 and with Tal R in 2017.

Since the 1990s Tal R, as one of the most striking artists of his generation, has exhibited all around the world, particularly in Europe, and his art appears in many central collections. It is evident from the exhibition, which scans his work of the past twenty years and also shows a series of brand new works, that while as a painter, printmaker and sculptor he clearly roots his art in the material, as a storyteller, too, he has from the outset had a keen eye for the neglected, hidden and marginalized spaces of modern life.

Image: Tal R, Academy of Tal R, installation view, © the artist, courtesy Louisiana Museum of Modern Art