May 15, 2021
Pierre Tal Coat, (1905-1985)
Untitled (no. 662) , oil on cigar box, 1980.
“In Tal-Coat‘s works one can almost feel the mystic, transcendental analysis of nature and the world itself. He strived to recreate the elements of reality, which constitute the perceived by their equivalents. In a platonic sense he focused on the idea of the pictured element. Tal-Coat does not offer aspects but moments, passages of nature, the ”presence” as he would have called it. Samuel Beckett attested to Tal-Coat: ”Whether achieved by submission or ability, the result is a gaining of nature”.