Kfir Tager

Kfir Tager is an autodidact artist and one of the youngest rising stars in the Israeli art scene.

In his work, he starts with a mental introspection and reflections on memories of human figures and images of the coastline and urban landscape of the city. Those images undergo formal processes of abstraction and expression. Kfir explores the interaction between the paint and diverse pictorial supports like paper, huge canvas, and outdoor hidden walls. With the painting, he tries to capture a formal essence and convey it in relation to how it appears in his mind’s eye. At the same time, the different images reflect the reality that surrounds him.

Kfir’s work process is akin to embarking on an unplanned adventure. he weaves a dialogue with the painting, which starts as devoid of a “position” and which later associate with a word/sentence that forms the works’ title, which adds another meaning and imbues it with an ambiguous “position.” His fundamental approach to the materiality of the painting is one of sensual and passionate pleasure. Despite the apparent influence of “action painting” on Kfir’s work, there is a constant balance between the “spontaneity” and advance thought and planning that surrounds the work.

The point of ...

Artist workshop at the Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Israel
Artist workshop with a multidisciplinary artist Hadi, Israel
An artist's workshop at Ami Kam's in collaboration with Bezalel, Israel

☛ 2018 - "Self Not Selfie"
At the Bezalel Academy of Visual Arts

☛ 2018 - "Crazy City"
An intimate solo exhibition in collaboration with the
"Saga" Art Gallery of Israeli Art in Jaffa, Israel

☛ 2020 - "Change"
International exhibition on the subject of International
Inspiration Day.
by curator Ilana Salsanev,
winner of the International Design Award in Milan