Participating Artists
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Untitled, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 76 cm, courtesy of the Yifat Gurion Ofer Collection, Tel Aviv
Gabby Nathan
Gabby Nathan‘s painting is heavily influenced by Japanese Manga culture, featuring a typical, red-haired girl/doll figure with sculpted features and a jagged patch under one of her eyes. According to Nathan, this is a self portrait. This figure is surrounded by inflatable plastic dolls, with which she seems to struggle. Its distorted face, huge eyes and exaggerated gestures, as well as the images' compositions and the use of bright red, result in bizarre, troubling scenes. Pronounced contours shape the artist's illustrative style, inspired by Pop Art, popular culture icons and street art. Subversive and full of protest, her work criticizes the obsessions of an industrialized, filthy and artificial - but also enticing and addictive - consumerist world.
Born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1978; lives and works in Tel Aviv
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