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 Michel Tabori was born in Paris in 1956 and grew up in New York. He spent the better part of the last thirty years working in films and television as a director, producer, writer and cinematographer while living and working all over the world. Today, he incorporates his cinematic expertise, visual experience and creative process into his current work at his Los Angeles studio. 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.
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”
Red Mesa Sunset Sylph, mixed media on resin and canvas, 64”x144”
Missin Her Red, mixed media, acrylic and resin on panel, 62”x44”
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