Of Dead Dogs, Winged Horses Dancing Pigs, Wise Monkeys, and Hairy Humans

Ruven Kuperman

2014

The book brings together works from the decade before it was made as well as a climate, an environment within which this world can exist. This environment consists of photographs I took on trips, at home, of my son Liam, photographs taken by friends and images from the internet. The book contains three texts that range from academic writing to poetry, clarifying certain elements, but mainly directing the temperature, the tone of things. A chaotics experience can flood when you flip through the book, reflecting a world that ranges from mythologies to reality (assuming there is one), between political and personal, between tragic and comic, a multiplicity of cultural style and references in which East and West confront, play and fertilize each other. A harmony of contrasts.

  • Copies: 300
  • Pages: 136
  • Type of binding: softcover
  • Dimensions (cm): 23.5X32
  • Reproductions: Ran Erde, Stas Korolov
  • Printing: Artplus, Jerusalem
  • Place of publication: Jerusalem
  • Supported by: Israel Lottery Council For Culture & Arts, The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts

Ruven Kuperman, born in 1964 in Kishinev, USSR (now Moldova), lives and creates in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. He has a BA in art and philosophy from the University of Haifa, and an MFA. from the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York. He is a lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. The portraits and scenes in Kuperman’s paintings and drawings combine details from his personal life and tattooed figures and icons from Russian prison, Japanese culture and the pre-modern period. In 2016, he won the Ministry of Culture’s Creative Encouragement Award and in 2019, the Anne and Ari Rosenblatt Award for Visual Art.