Cocks & Tits & Hurt Feelings

Shai Yehezkelli

2014

An artist’s book replicating Yehezkelli’s sketchbooks from 2002–2014 with a series of 1:1 drawing reproductions. Text insert by Doron Rabina included. Hardback, cloth cover, sewn bound, offset printed.

  • Copies: 1000
  • Pages: 192
  • Type of binding: hardcover
  • Dimensions (cm): 14.5X10.5
  • Printing: A.R. Printing LTD
  • Type of printing: Offset
  • Place of publication: Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
  • Supported by: Israel Lottery Council For Culture & Arts
  • Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
  • ISBN: 9789659236602

Shai Yehezkelli (b. 1979) is an artist who lives and works in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel. He attained both his BFA and his MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design’s Fine Arts Department. Yehezkelli’s works are inspired by the traditions of local painting, while seeking to absolve them of their sublime aspect and instead highlighting their connection to the everyday and the banal. In his paintings, Yehezkelli uses complex iconography, through which he explores elements of Israeli history and identity –while deconstructing the holiness and seriousness with which national narratives are usually created and regarded.
Yehezkelli is the recipient of the Rapaport Prize for Young Israeli Artist (2015). Yehezkelli presented his works in numerous solo and group exhibitions; in 2021, he showcased a solo exhibition at the Beit Uri and Rami Nehushtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov.