The genre of realism paintings is getting stronger in our country - at KooKoo they respect the trend and bring you nine contemporary Israeli realism artists in sale #33, alongside old and well-known artists and a number of new artists that we will introduce to you in this sale.
Realism: Gala Gilan with 6 beautiful oil paintings, Yuval Yosifov for the first time in KooKoo an impressive and promising painter only 25 years old, Daniel Zuberi the flower painter who sold all his works in the last sale, Israel Dror Hemed who presented a solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum in 2020 with two oil paintings, Roni Yoffe a painter still life paintings and follows the masters from the 18th century, and will also present the work "Yael", Avia Halabi with 3 paintings from the amazing gas balloon series, Doron Wolf left us for his success as an artist in America and left us a personal and special work, Zohar Tal Inbar with 3 Romantic oil paintings and drawing, Renana Termachi follows the master Vermeer.
KooKoo took to Eyal Assulin the statue "Moti" that belonged to him and was numbered AP - a very last statue from the series - there are no more and there will not be any of the statue in question
Zoya Cherkasky with an oil painting "Jaffa" at a tempting opening price
Lena Revenko spoils us with 4 paper works and a sculpture
You will also find collages of familiar buildings from Tel Aviv that created by Tzlil Benderhaim
Oren Ailam for the first time in KooKoo with songs on original bus stop signs - wow!
And - for the first time in KooKoo, feminist needlework by Yaera Chotzen
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LOT 2:
Bazooka Joe
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Sold for: $280
Start price:
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200
Estimated price :
$1,000 - $1,200
Buyer's Premium: 15%
VAT: 17%
On commission only
Users from foreign countries may be exempted from tax payments, according to the relevant tax regulations
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Acrylic and ink on framed paper
35/27 cm
signed
A rare opportunity to purchase an original work on wood by the artist Bazooka Joe - not available from his works, everything is pre-sold to several collectors
The esteemed artist Bazooka Joe, a painter and sculptor whose works sell for tens of thousands of dollars and adorn the walls of the people of the upper echelons in Israel.
Adi Mendel (55) grew up in Bat Yam, the only son of a real estate and car dealer father and a housewife mother. It was a wealthy family that lacked almost nothing - except what a child really needs. Says and does not specify. "My mother would draw. Not for a living, because she did not have to work, but as a hobby. I, perhaps in response to my mother's attitude, could not stand paintings. I hated colors. I did not touch the brush. At the end it is probably in the DNA.
When he became a drug addict, his family members, including his brother from his father’s late marriage, turned their backs on him. "I had no one to ask for help from, " he says, "so I started breaking the law, mostly on property offenses, to fund the drugs. I did it reluctantly, with great sorrow. 'Forced crime, ' I call it."
The drug addiction and crime brought him to a total of six years behind bars, with all this time a tremendous talent hidden deep within him and not knowing how to break out. "I saw death with my own eyes, " says Bazooka Joe, mentioning, once again, how long the distance is between someone who was so close to ending his life in a tiny cell, alone, and someone who is gaining fame today.
His talent stood out from the canvas in the eyes of anyone who witnessed his paintings. He asked his stage name from the character on the gum covers. "Bazooka Joe was a sniper in the United States Army and I was a sniper with a paintbrush, " he explains. "Plus, I connect to the naivety of the bright colors."
His works also began to make waves among those interested in the field of art. He left the gallery three years ago, after his works were priced at well over a thousand dollars. Among the buyers of Bazooka Joe's art are businessman, controlling shareholder and CEO Castro Gabi Rotter, publicist Rani Rahav and the Wertheimer industrialist family. They are now joined by another satisfied customer - the prison service. Today, Bazooka Joe focuses on art. Addiction to creation has replaced drug addiction, "but it's a good addiction, " he says.
To close a circle with his rough past, the artist painted with the approval of the Tel Aviv Municipality on the walls of the Abu Kabir Prison (photo attached)
