
Roey Victoria Heifetz
Foppish, 2009
Graphite and ink on Paper
270 x 150 cm
The male figures featured in Roey Heifetz's large-scale drawings seem to have been taken from a novella or a fictional fantasy. Floating on the white page's space, severed from any place and...
The male figures featured in Roey Heifetz's large-scale drawings seem to have been taken from a novella or a fictional fantasy. Floating on the white page's space, severed from any place and identity, these figures' bizarre outlook and surreal attributes echo the figure of the late 18th Century dandy. The soft graphite lines and massive black patches that surround them create a feeling of excess, exaggeration and distortion. It would seem that Heifetz has an intimate relationship with his surreal figures: "I challenge my painted figures to a kind of duel, until, by the end of the process, they have become anonymous and lose all distinguishing characteristics." Born in Jerusalem, 1978; lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist
Exhibitions
Haifa Museum of Art | Wild Exaggeration - The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art | July 2009 - January 2010.Art Market Budapest: A38 Gallery | The Human Condition – Psychological works from the Serge Tiroche Collection | October 2017.
Publications
"Picnic Magazine" | Autumn- Winter 2009-10.Hila Shkolnik Brener | "Into The Picture- The Dark World of Drawing By Roey Heifetz" | City Mouse | 26/11/12.