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Yair Garbuz: "As usual in this place, they managed to forget Tumarkin even before he died."
Artist Yair Garbuz paid tribute to Legal Tumarkin, who passed away today: "If you remove Tumarkin from the Israeli art building, the building will collapse. He was outrageous, vindictive and angry, but his more difficult things could have been accepted."
Minister Trooper: "He left behind works that will remain a triumphant testimony to his talent"
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Thursday, 12 August 2021, 17:05 Updated: 17:10
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"If you remove Yigal Tumarkin from the Israeli art building - the building will collapse" (Photo: Reuven Castro)
The world of culture and art was deeply saddened when the death of the artist, sculptor and Israel Prize winner Yigal Tumarkin, at the age of 87. Tumarkin, one of Israel's top artists, passed away this morning, at his home, after battling an illness.
Tumarkin was a diverse artist whose work included sculptures, paintings, drawings, graphics and stage design.
Among his well-known works are the "Monument to the Holocaust and Resurrection" from 1975, which is still placed in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, the iconic sculpture "He Walked in the Fields" from 1967, and the sculpture "Occurrence" at Tel Aviv University from 1972.
Artist and creator Yair Garbuz paid tribute to Tumarkin in a conversation with Walla!
Culture: "I am a follower of Israeli art, I think there is and has been very good art here, but there are few artists who if you remove them from the building called Israeli art - then the building collapses. And Tumarkin was like that, the so-called support pillar. The sixties and seventies. He brought the art of the mixed technique of the materials - a combination of painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and writing in one work. "In poetry, film, music and theater at a very high level, and this is also evident in his work. His work has been in dialogue with the world of culture past and present."
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"As usual in this place, they managed to forget him even before he died."
Yigal Tumarkin (Photo: Reuven Castro)
"Tumarkin had a very, very strong socio-political awareness, both scandalous, both vindictive and both guarded and angry. But he had behind him such a large arsenal that one could accept even the more difficult and less successful things in this conduct of his. I think two things do not exist today. And Tumarkin maintains them at the height of their power. Alf, today there is no gap and tension between the artists and their mediated environment - curators, gallery owners, art critics, museum directors. Everyone today is everyone's friends. Tumarkin was in confrontation with everyone. And secondly, he was really a book man, he himself wrote and published books, including a wonderful autobiography. "
"Even those who did not particularly like him could not ignore his presence, his strengths and his power. He could move mountains. The principle of his work was built on creating as much as possible, in as many intensities, and that time would make the selection, not to waste time thinking. "Which of my works is more successful and which is less, but to do another one. And that's to say that there are a lot of very, very significant works in the world.
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"He had endless creative courage."
Yigal Tumarkin (Photo: Reuven Castro)
His son, actor Ion Tumarkin, paid tribute to him in a conversation with Walla! culture. "Because it's so fresh and so painful it's still hard for me to find the right words," he said. "To me he was the most amazing father one could ask for. The opposite of the persona and how he was perceived by the public as a 'bad boy' with 'the big mouth'. He was an amazing father and loved his children and his family the most. "I did not have time to say goodbye as I wanted. He was an amazing artist, one of the greatest who have been and will be here in Israel. I think it is a great loss to the world of culture and art, and to the world in general."
The Minister of Culture and Sports, Hili Troper, paid tribute: "The artist Yigal Tumarkin, who was one of the leaders in the field of sculpture and painting in Israel, passed away today, leaving works that will remain a testament to his talent after decades of extensive work. Participates in family grief."
Veteran gallery owner Naomi Givon, owner of Givon Gallery, paid tribute to Tumarkin in a conversation with Walla!
Culture: "Tumarkin had a huge contribution to Israeli art. His main contribution was that he did not go anywhere. He did not give in to this or that canon. He had an independent language, unique, free, completely his own. And the interesting thing was that he had an interpretation of modernism that was different from "He understood modernism. He is winking at a different material. He had endless creative courage, without limit. I think we do not know today a form of doing so free from fixation as Tumarkin's."
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