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Karam Natour, Masterpiece book ''JESTER LUX''

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Karam Natour

Masterpiece book ''JESTER LUX''

An artist's book by Karam Natour, the most exemplary book published in Israel this year 2021
A 7-year work that was expressed in 400 pages and 111 titles
For a book of only 800 copies (first edition)
The book is signed by Karam Natour
"Drawings and crying and joy and pain and secrets that it's time to tell" was said by the artist
An artist's book of this level has never been published in Israel, a masterpiece, you owe it to your desk!
400 pages of endless pleasure and interest
The artist is represented by the Rosenfeld Gallery (the gallery representing Zoya Cherkesky)

Jester Lux, an artist's book focusing on Natour's digital drawings (some of which have been featured on social media while others have never been featured before), in which the artist appears - through Jester, his "inhuman partner" - as the protagonist of surrealistic scenarios and absurd situations, while Mixes elements from the history of art (pop art), literature (Alyssa in Wonderland), history (ancient Egypt) and culture (the figure of the donkey in the Middle East).

Karam Natour (b. 1992) was born in Nazareth and grew up in Shefar'am. An artist and lecturer living and working in Tel Aviv. His works deal with the characteristics of identity, its fluidity and the way in which it is structured and enforced by different frameworks - family, society, culture, politics and gender. The main actor in Natour's drawings is his character, whom he takes on historical, cultural and social journeys. The video medium is the native language of Natour, from which the drawings evolved. The physical presence of the body, is a recurring motif in Natour's works, emphasizing the allegorical contexts that accompany the existence of the body. In the various drawings, Natour often refers to the character of the artist in playfulness, humor and cynicism.

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Karam Natour

Masterpiece book ''JESTER LUX''

An artist's book by Karam Natour, the most exemplary book published in Israel this year 2021
A 7-year work that was expressed in 400 pages and 111 titles
For a book of only 800 copies (first edition)
The book is signed by Karam Natour
"Drawings and crying and joy and pain and secrets that it's time to tell" was said by the artist
An artist's book of this level has never been published in Israel, a masterpiece, you owe it to your desk!
400 pages of endless pleasure and interest
The artist is represented by the Rosenfeld Gallery (the gallery representing Zoya Cherkesky)

Jester Lux, an artist's book focusing on Natour's digital drawings (some of which have been featured on social media while others have never been featured before), in which the artist appears - through Jester, his "inhuman partner" - as the protagonist of surrealistic scenarios and absurd situations, while Mixes elements from the history of art (pop art), literature (Alyssa in Wonderland), history (ancient Egypt) and culture (the figure of the donkey in the Middle East).

Karam Natour (b. 1992) was born in Nazareth and grew up in Shefar'am. An artist and lecturer living and working in Tel Aviv. His works deal with the characteristics of identity, its fluidity and the way in which it is structured and enforced by different frameworks - family, society, culture, politics and gender. The main actor in Natour's drawings is his character, whom he takes on historical, cultural and social journeys. The video medium is the native language of Natour, from which the drawings evolved. The physical presence of the body, is a recurring motif in Natour's works, emphasizing the allegorical contexts that accompany the existence of the body. In the various drawings, Natour often refers to the character of the artist in playfulness, humor and cynicism.

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