Meital Katz-Minerbo Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1974 -

I am an Israeli born artist who grew up in Venezuela, and for the past 19 years I have being living and creating art in Tel Aviv. In my works I communicate with the restless undead of contemporary art: painting, which like a horror film or a computer game zombie, refuses to die, but is also not entirely alive.



For the last four years my research and projects revolve around scientific and pseudo-scientific fields like: Parapsychology, Spiritism, Botany, Geology, and Horticulture. Most of these disciplines and quasi-disciplines were created or developed by the technology of the 19th century. I examine the life force of the dead, harnessing for that purpose its empirical, mechanic, esoteric, and organic impetus.



In the making of the works, I mostly use industrial lacquer and spray paint on impermeable surfaces. Instead of building the image using brushstrokes, I let the paint react with strong diluents, creating disintegrated surfaces, resembling a view of decomposition, decay, and death. In the studio, popular culture images are brought back to life by the act of painting that feels more like an act of necromancy (the witchcraft of bringing a corpse back to life). In this way, painting becomes a practice that touches on strange and peripheral fields that remained in the shadows unexplained. These charge the practice with an almost religious belief that gives me the power to stretch the limits of painting, willing to regenerate it in its new form.