This year\u2019s winner of the Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist is Tal Broitman.<\/p>\n
Excerpts of the prize committee\u2019s decision At the center of a \u2018crazy,\u2019 grotesque series of paintings stands a low-browed, comic protagonist, named \u2018Israel.\u2019 The hero\u2019s face has been reduced to a pair of eyes and a jaw full of white teeth. With one hand, he fills his car with gasoline, while holding a lit match in the other. This is a young man who devours life \u2013 and the world, as well \u2013 in one gulp.<\/p>\n
Broitman\u2019s paintings are fresh, rendered with virtuoso flair. He has no barriers and no inhibitions: he doesn\u2019t bother with elegance. His paintings are mature and charismatic, a wild, unapologetic celebration of the medium.
\nThe artist takes the cultured medium of oil painting, so laden with historical precedents, and succeeds in infusing it with new, brazen life.<\/p>\n
Broitman\u2019s paintings adhere to overflowing exaggeration in which the carnivalesque poetics are formulated holistically and precisely. The artist\u2019s picaresque \u2019hero,\u2019 an all-powerful, Superman-like acrobat, seems to have emerged from some animated cartoon series to describe an internal and external world on the verge of collapse, heading for a crash. Tal Broitman\u2019s paintings faithfully capture the reflection of a generation as well as the explosive (and \u201ccrazy\u201d) Israeli reality.<\/p>\n
It is for these reasons that we have decided to award the Osnat Mozes Young Artist Painting Prize to Tal Broitman.<\/p>\n
Prize Committee: Maya Attoun, Pesach Slabosky, Yizhak Livneh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2485,"template":"","categories":[202],"artists":[634],"exhibition":[635],"curator":[636],"years":[3768],"class_list":["post-1559","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-osnat-mozes-award","artists-tal-broitman","exhibition-tal-broitman","curator-raphael-zagury-orly","years-2016-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"exhibition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"curator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/curator?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}