Tamir Shefer

Künstlerportrait

Tamir Shefer is well-known for his archaic-mythical pop-masks that occupy prominent positions on boxes, steles and panels. He is equally well-known for his swarming large-scale canvases which are always densely populated, bustling, even overcrowded. They can show a multitude of small-scale faces that become aspects of bigger super-structures, typically masks again; they can depict little comicclones scrimmaging or hiding between an assemblage of line-faces. Eyes, faces, masks, and more faces with more eyes. However, it is exactly this repetitive structure that gives Shefer’s pictures an almost meditative quality – as if his work were synaesthetically accompanied by a rhythmic drumming.