The regularity of the ornament and the decorative forms, which are based on repetition, are essential compositional characteristics in Tal R's art. Although he sometimes makes elements of his schematized
pictorial world cavort freely on the canvas, they are all dancing to the same tune. The figures, which are reduced to essentials, perform on a simple stage where they act out the theatrum mundi with a minimum of properties. Reality acquires its own concrete quality through reduction, and its events are repeated in the perpetuum mobile of the world's events. Traditional forms of pictorial design are abandoned in favor of
personal order.
— Jan-Hendrik Wentrup


Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Victoria Miro, London; 2002: Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark; Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Berlin; 2001: Hostrup-Perdersen & Johansen, Copenhagen; Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; 2000: Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen; Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark; Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen; Kunstmuseum, Holstebro.
Selected group exhibitions: 2002: Royal Academy, London; Carnegie Art Award, Stockholm; Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation, Helsinki; Stop for a moment, Wäino Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland/ Arken Museum of Modern Art, Arken, Denmark; 2001: 3rd Biennial Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Gravures de Peintres, Nils Borch Jensen Verlag und Druck, Berlin; Victoria Miro, London; Take off 20:01, Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark; 2000: Organising Freedom, Moderna Museet, Stockholm/ Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; 11th Vilnius Triennal; Duchamp Suitcase, Arnolfini, Bristol; Fuori Uso 2000, Pescara, Italy.