SHAY KUN
“The source material usually gives my work a bit of a sinister feeling, but there is also a certain longing, a lyrical aspect running through everything I do. As a painter, I wanted to do something completely different, but in the end my work comes from my personal background, and my artwork is an amalgam of my personal experiences and as a consumer of art and culture.”
Shay Kun (born 1974, Israel) is known for his hyper-surrealist style. Kun’s oeuvre is embodied in three series, Tear Drops, Lift Off (Hot Air Balloons), and Slums.
Untitled, 2021, Oil on canvas, 50x80 cm
Untitled, 2021, Oil on canvas, 50x80 cm
SHAY KUN
“The source material usually gives my work a bit of a sinister feeling, but there is also a certain longing, a lyrical aspect running through everything I do. As a painter, I wanted to do something completely different, but in the end my work comes from my personal background, and my artwork is an amalgam of my personal experiences and as a consumer of art and culture.”
Shay Kun (born 1974, Israel) is known for his hyper-surrealist style. Kun’s oeuvre is embodied in three series, Tear Drops, Lift Off (Hot Air Balloons), and Slums.
2021, Oil on canvas, 55x80 cm
Untitled, 2021, Oil on canvas, 116x200 cm
Untitled, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 80x120 cm
As an artist who is firmly averse to painting from the real-world, Shay’s central focus is to contrast the decay of the artificial with that of the natural to create an organic digital removal from the original image. The images that attract and inspire the artist are deconstructed and reproduced thoroughly. When Shay is struck by an overwhelming image, it prompts him to explore and dissect it, with his interest lying in the mechanism of perception as opposed to the actual subject.
Shay’s acute awareness of his specific place in today’s visual culture - somewhere between the historical concept of fine art and the contemporary deconstruction of digital and electronic imagery as a central concept for his generation - places his work in juxtaposition with that of his parents.
For Shay Kun, a series is never complete. He revisits each subject as his interpretation of reality and our ability to comprehend the representational progression.
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