MICHEL TABORI
In Search of Lost Time
WILLIAM TURNER GALLERY BERGAMOT STATION ARTS CENTER 2525 MICHIGAN AVE., E-1 SANTA MONICA, CA 90404 P 310-453-0909 F 310-453-0908 www.williamturnergallery.com
In Search of Lost Time In his latest series of paintings, Tabori draws upon the writings of Marcel Proust for inspiration. After reading Proust’s novel, Remembrance of Things Past, itoccurred to Tabori that Proust, although usually perceived as a writer, was also a kind of painter. He was struck by the similarities between his paintings and Proust’s writing. It was Proust’s extraordinary use of color that resonated with Tabori the most. The author uses a color palette to create a fusion of emotions, often reflecting a state of bliss in the same way Tabori attempts to express in his paintings. Proust used words as a palette, and Tabori uses a palette as words. Tabori’s paintings are about emotional experiences and blissful acts. He uses colors and textures as sensory triggers. His paintings tell a story, but Tabori shies away from the typical narrative, instead using colors and abstracted imagery to deconstruct and then rebuild the central theme. Like Proust, Tabori draws on memories set off by a certain light or a certain color, and then follows the resulting stream of consciousness, allowing it to shape his process. Tabori’s work depicts symmetric transformations of fast moving action, landscapes and intimate portraits, as seen and experienced both directly and through reflections of the subject’s surroundings. To start, pigment is sprayed on multiple levels, first on canvas mounted on panel and then again on layers of polymer resin, which throw tints and shadows on the layers below as more resin is added. This assures a greater depth of field and constantly changing variety of colors otherwise impossible with just paint on flat canvas alone. The result is not a static painting, but rather a work of continually shifting optics achieved through the use of resin that interacts not only with the canvas below, but also with the reflections of light, movement and obscuring forms in the surrounding environment. Michel Tabori was born in Paris and raised in New York. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
One – mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 61”x87”
Two – mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 64”x48”
Three – mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 74”x66”
Four - mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 48” x 66”
Five - mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 60”x56”
Six - mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 51”x38”
Twenty-two - on 3 panels - mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 58”x120” Twenty-two - on 3 panels - mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 58”x120”
Seven - mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 50”x40”
Eight - mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 46”x69”
Nine - mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 44”x52”
Ten thru Eighteen (9), mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 18”x 24”
Nineteen - mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 44”x54”
Twenty, ink and acrylic on canvas, 62�x62
Twenty-one - mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 54”x85”
Twenty-three - mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 70’x58”
Twenty-Four - mixed media, acrylic and resin on canvas, 85”x54”
Missin Her Red, mixed media, acrylic and resin on panel, 62”x44”
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