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RFI (3rd décembre  2023) – par Ollia Horton

https://www.rfi.fr/en/culture/20231203-meet-the-experimental-artist-for-whom-mistakes-can-be-magical-tal-waldman

Article by Ollie Horton RFI -December 2023 : Meet-the-experimental-artist-for-whom-mistakes-can-be-magical-tal-waldman

 

 

Meet the experimental artist for whom mistakes can be magical

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Light pours in through the windows onto the coloured pens, books and plants. Paint splatters cover the floor, partially hidden by a trestle table in the middle of the room.

Large drawing folders line the walls and rows of framed works and sculptures fill the shelves. Quiet jazz plays from a speaker as Tal serves up some herbal tea.

Creating a sense of calm is essential for this multimedia artist, who finds inspiration in many places.

“When I create, I need to let go,” she tells RFI, describing a form of artistic meditation that can involve anything from doodling randomly in notebooks to sketching, reading and daydreaming.

Despite an outward appearance of calm, she compares her daily practice to that of a sportsperson who exercises her creative muscles regularly in order to be ready for “competition”.

In her case this means battling a blank page.

Unlimited inspiration

“There is no one way to start a work. Ideas come to me at any time. That’s why I’m constantly noting them down. The challenge is to translate them into form.”

Experimentation is key to Waldman’s process, and she often works simultaneously on several projects, letting them evolve in their own time.

Be it photography, painting, drawing, sculptures in glass and ceramics or installation, Waldman leaves no stone unturned and pushes the boundaries of each medium.

“Everything I do is inspired by nature,” she says. “Whether it’s sketching trees or organic life. It could be through texture that indicates an organic shape inside a body or a cell. It could be in the form of a sculpture that is very fluid.”

Fascinated by the play of light and shadow on the leaves of trees, or the mysterious forms of coral under the sea, the artist is kept busy in her quest to represent natural wonders in a physical form.

Slow art

Waldman describes her approach as “slow art”. She’s mindful of the process and the details, which are just as important if not more so than the outcome.

It’s important to remain open to change, especially when parts of one project end up morphing into new ideas. This can also be applied to her career path, which has been rich and varied.

After studying design and architecture in Germany and France, Waldman worked for prestigious agencies like those of Jean Nouvel and Christian de Portszamparc. In 2006, she decided to dedicate herself fully to her art.

Waldman often amuses herself by exhibiting the items that “didn’t work”. Mistakes are important stages in the work process, and are never completely cast aside.

“Imperfection is not something I break my head on,” she says smiling.

In fact, imperfection can be beautiful in its own way, she says, showing examples of her sculpture series called “Golden Scars”.

Waldman used the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi, which involves mending broken ceramics with gold dust and resin. The idea is to treat breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to hide.

For Waldman, it’s even a metaphor for coming to terms with oneself, accepting one’s scars and faults and embracing them.

Respectful attitude

Recycling and upcycling play a big role in Waldman’s artistic process and have done so even before it became fashionable from an environmental point of view.

“Even though I deal with environmental issues, I’m not an activist artist. When I use upcycling, it’s a choice. It’s a material that is particularly charged with the memories of someone else and of history – I like to use it. It demands a respectful attitude”.

The materials Waldman uses have a life of their own. From cloth to wood or ceramics, each object tells story linked to culture, migration, womanhood or motherhood.

Sometimes it’s a mixture of all these things, such as the series “Embroidered Memories” which brings together 10 artisans from Paris to express the experience of immigrant lives.

“I like to feel free to move between one medium to another because they represent different feelings. And I can feel that I am unlimited, even if it’s only for a second,” Waldman says.

It is perhaps the title of one of her books that sums up most aptly Waldman’s approach to creation.

“Visualising the Invisible, a Journey into Silence”. In every drawing, photo and sculpture, Waldman is seeking to lend a physical presence to what is to most a fleeting feeling or impression, difficult for most people to describe, let alone make.

The result is quite stunning and a joy for the viewer, who finds themselves transported into a unique and colourful universe, with limitless possibilities for interpretation.

Her exhibition “Fiat Lux” is at the Cécile Dufay Gallery in Paris 6 December 2023 to 8 January 2024. 

 

 

RFI (Septembre 2023) – par Ollia Horton

L’article vers la fin, le video à partir de 2.22min pour 1min

https://www.rfi.fr/en/culture/20230916-french-stained-glass-museum-pieces-together-past-and-present

 

Actualité Juive (Juillet 2023) – par Robert Sander

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elle Décoration France (Juin 2023) – par Laurence Dougier

 

LE JOURNAL DU DIMANCHE (April 23, 2023) – The JDD selection of “5 major cultural events or off the beaten track”

 

Art Critique (22 Juin 2023) – Guillaume de Sardes 

The Textile Eye (N°17- June 2023) – Interview by Robyn Willson 

Les Ondes de l’immo – culture (01 Juin 2023)  – Anne Sandrine di Girolamo

http://https://ondesdelimmo.com/art-de-vivre/culture/la-cite-du-vitrail-expose-tal-waldman

Maison à Vivre Compagne (N°125 Juin-Juillet 2023) – par Anne Valery

Troyes Aube Radio (09 Juin 2023) – Interview avec Chloé Balourdet

 

Theme Radio (09 Juin 2023) – Interview avec Barbara Baudin

 

Actualité Juive (N°1680- Mars 2023) – Robert Sender

 

Argument (N°2- October- November 2022) – Interview by A.O. Hervias and F.B. Aussalet

 

 

 

 

 

Artsixmic (29 Septembre 2022) – By Jean Marc Lebeaupin Waldman-Morehouse Visualiser l’invisible!

 

HAS magazine (January 2022)

Art and Humanities as catalysts for a culture of empathy by Margalit Berriet In dialogue with EmbroideredMemories  An art project by Tal Waldman – Talva D.

https://humanitiesartsandsociety.org/magazine/taking-care/

Artension n170 (nov-déc 2021 p.92) Coups de coeur À la grâce de Compiègne

Culturium (3 July 2023)  – by Paula Marvelly

‘Tal Waldman -Silence’ The art of stillness

https://www.theculturium.com/tal-waldman-silence/

Artist Talk recording (17 Mai 2021) and the ‘Human Mind’ exhibition at Tebbs Gallery in London

 

L’officiel des galeries et musées (16 April 2021) : An article by Eléonore Blanc

 “La quête intérieure de Tal Waldman “

officiel-galeries-musees.fr/la-quete-interieure-de-tal-waldman-residence-galerie

Artsixmic (28 April 2021) – Interview by Jean Marc Lebeaupin 

Hasard dirigé by Tal Waldman – Interview

https://www.artsixmic.fr/2021-04-28-hasard-dirige-by-tal-waldman-interview-151962-2/

 

Permanently, on the border between the sacred and the profane, Tal Waldman traces paths for us and draws us perspectives, to perhaps one day know the light and enter the invisible. Tal Waldman artist of transcendence!

Tal Waldman is in perpetual research on everything that moves, everything that lives, everything that inspires her, everything that touches her, brings her to life and takes her far ahead, always further ! She is a seeker in search of her inner self. On a permanent journey, she argues her life around her passion for creation, which is symbolized day by day, in the visible and in the invisible part of our collective memory. Tal Waldman is a cultivator of the imagination, of a imaginary that touches us and transports us elsewhere in color palettes, which combine and tame endlessly. Conscious of the unconscious, she constantly plays with her brushes in a dance of “Directed Randomness”, in balance between disorder and order, between order and disorder. Being in full consciousness is for her the path of her life, of the one she has chosen, in order to grow still a little. To perceive that the line hangs by a thread and that the illusion is not always a crime. Giving meaning to life is a permanent tribute to our mother Earth. Without limits, always going beyond herself a little more, she exposes what is beautiful in creation, in a subjective penetration. Alone or accompanied in her dreams, she invites us simple mortals to feel more the meanders of our wishes, and our desires. Permanently, on the border between the sacred and the profane, it traces routes for us and draws us perspectives, to perhaps one day know the light and enter the invisible.

Tal Waldman artist of transcendence!

 

 

 

Open Eye (13 Feb 2021) – by François Beauxis Aussalet

“Tal Waldman – Visualiser l’invisible”   

openeyelemagazine.fr/tal-waldman-visualiser-linvisible

 

Culturium (18 Oct 2020)  – by Paula Marvelly

‘Tal Waldman -Golden Scars’ Slow Art

https://www.theculturium.com/tal-waldman-golden-scars/

 

 

Culturium (26 Jul 2020)  – by Paula Marvelly

‘Tal Waldman -Komorebi’

https://www.theculturium.com/tal-waldman-komorebi/

 

Tal Waldman: Komorebi

Culturium (3 Mai 2020)  – by Paula Marvelly

‘Tal Waldman Directed Randomness – Such stuff as dreams are made on’

https://www.theculturium.com/tal-waldman-directed-randomness/

 

 

 

 

 

Art Hebdo Media (September 2019)

‘Tal Waldman- Directed Randomness’

https://www.artshebdomedias.com/agenda/tal-waldman-hasards-diriges/

Art Hebdo Media (11 October 2019) by Samantha Daman

‘between control and letting go with Tal Waldman’

https://www.artshebdomedias.com/article/entre-controle-et-lacher-prise-avec-tal-waldman/

 

GERMAIN PIRE (7 november 2019)

http://agenda.germainpire.info/view_entry.php?id=111247

 

 

 

ARTISTIK REZO (7 Mars 2019) – by Vanessa Humphires

« Ce sera sur le fil, le lien et les êtres nomades »

https://www.artistikrezo.com/agenda/ce-sera-sur-le-fil-le-lien-et-les-etres-nomades-4-artistes-exposent-a-la-d-galerie.html

 

 

   

 

JOURNAL TEXTILE N °2409 (12 February 2019) – by Agnes Delcroix

‘The house of tomorrow’

https://www.journaldutextile.com/la-maison-de-demain-sera-plus-conviviale

 

   

JOURNAL TEXTILE N° N°2276 (7 December 2015) – by Agnes Delcroix

‘Tal Waldman embroiders cultures’

http://www.talwaldman.com/?p=3688&lang=fr

 

 

 

 

 

Fashion-mag magazine (2016)

‘Embroidered Memories Culture through Art ’ Exhibition Art Museum La Piscine

https://fr.fashionnetwork.com/news/L-exposition-memoires-brodees-au-musee-de-la-piscine-a-roubaix-prone-la-diversite-culturelle-a-travers-l-art,586240.html

 

 

 

 

ATELIERS D’ART N° 120 (November – December 2015)

‘Memory of material’

https://www.editionsateliersdart.com/ateliers-dart-numerique-120.html

 

 

 

 

Mu-inthecity (16 Décembre 2015) – by Samantha Deman

“Les Mémoires Brodées de Tal Waldman”

https://www.mu-inthecity.com/les-memoires-brodees-de-tal-waldman

 

 

 

Art Hebdo Media (20 November 2015) – by Samantha Deman

‘Tal Waldman in Roubaix – The ways of materials’

https://www.artshebdomedias.com/article/201115-tal-waldman-roubaix-les-voies-de-la-matiere/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HDS Mag N°59 (Mai-June 2018)

Glass Biennale Colombes – Museum of Art and History

https://my.hauts-de-seine.fr/publications/HDSmagazine/hdsmag59/#48

 

 

 

 

 

 

HAND EYE MAGAZIN (9 November 2013)

EMBROIDERED MEMORIES

http://handeyemagazine.com/content/embroidered-memories

 

 

 

Paris Art – (January 2016)

Tal Waldman in salon Maison&Objet 2016

https://www.paris-art.com/tal-waldman-au-salon-maisonobjet-2016/

 

 

 

 

Pixel Creation Magazine

‘Tal Waldman D’Days 2016 – art exhibition’

https://www.pixelcreation.fr/galerie/voir/designer-days-2016/tal-waldman-reverie-deracinement/

https://www.pixelcreation.fr/galerie/voir/designer-days-2016/tal-waldman-nuage/

https://www.pixelcreation.fr/galerie/voir/designer-days-2016/tal-waldman-lustre-liseronjpg/

 

 

 

 

 

Paris Art – (Sept 2016)

‘Paris Design Week 2016’ Exhibition Vegetal Art and Design

https://www.paris-art.com/173737-2/

 

 

 

 

 

Gala Magazine N° 1170 ( Decmeber 2015) –by Isabelle De Peufeilhoux

Embroidered Memories

https://www.ebay.fr/itm/254430175837

 

 

 

 

 

 

LM MAGAZINE (August 2015)

Embroidered Memories

 

 

 

 

La Voix du Nord (August 2015) – by Julien Gilman

Chagall is well surrounded this fall at the La Piscine Museum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paris Art – (Sept 2016)

‘Paris Design Week 2016’ Exhibition Vegetal Art and Design

https://www.paris-art.com/173737-2/

 

 

 

 

Paris Art – (January 2016)

Tal Waldman in salon Maison&Objet 2016

https://www.paris-art.com/tal-waldman-au-salon-maisonobjet-2016/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

urnal international en anglais HandEye magazine : http://handeyemagazine.com/content/embroidered-memories Un blog français sur la durabilité et upcycling: http://blog.wiithaa.com/upcycled-object/memoires-brodees-creation-culture/ Un blog international basé en Allemagne, une platforme internationale des createurs et investiseurs: http://www.jovoto.com/blog/2013/10/interview-with-total-jury-member-talvadesign/