KooKoo's 39th sale is entirely dedicated to the beautiful Israeli art of our country's young artists with a wide selection of art for investment:
The international Katia Lifshin with a huge oil painting and pastel work,
Shani Shemesh with a particularly moving and creepy sculpture,
The promising young Erez Pliscov with 3 views of the north of our country,
Reut Ashkenazi for the second time in KooKoo with 5 oil paintings as an opportunity and investment,
Moriah Kaplan paints for the first time a naive realistic series of childhoods,
Doron Akiva with 6 oil paintings that evoke longing for another time,
Chen Egozi with 3 hyper-realistic drawings with wax crayons!
Diana Kogan with a huge landscape work and two pastel paintings,
The graffiti artist Ben Mashiah with outstanding work,
We will introduce you for the first time to the young artist Noam Kubeisi - pay attention,
In the catalog you will also find romantic drawings by Eran Webber and Tanvi Pathera,
The genius watercolorist Liron Yankonsky, Roni Yoffe, Nurit Arbel, Sagi Mishevski and many more.
for your enjoyment :)
We will deliver with a courier to you for only NIS 39!
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LOTE 46:
Bazooka Joe
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Vendido por: $220 (₪812)
₪812
Preço inicial:
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200
Preço estimado :
$400 - $600
Comissão da leiloeira: 15%
IVA: 17%
Sobre a comissão apenas
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BOOM 2018
Posca, acrylic and ink on framed paper
34/24 cm (framed 48/38 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
