Michal Cole

Catalog # 28

Michal Cole

Forever 6 & 7

2009

15 x 15 cm each

From the  "Forever" Series

About the Artwork: Forever is a series of tattoo paintings focusing on different body parts.  This is a personal voyage into my dark past growing up in the city of Rishon Le Zion in the 8os when I discovered heavy metal music while in my rebellion early teenager stage. I drove and formed the “heavy metal group”. The situation was explosive and the media exploitation of the phenomenon contributed to fuelling a major international investigation and exploration by governmental bodies including the police. Admittedly we have caused harmless havoc, but the journey was one to stay with me forever.  Tattoos where an inseparable part of the theme and I have developed a passion for it since the tender age of 12 and indeed acquired some through the years.  “Forever” not just symbolises the eternity and the permanent marking of a body, but also a state of mind and the attachment to the naivety and beauty of becoming and forming as a person.  The discovery and exploration of the ever changing and aging of the body and the ability to re-form it with colour and image are captured in this series while using the more conservative method of oil on canvas/wood, thus, creating a conceptual bridge between the traditional and the contemporary.