Theodor barr was born in Constance near the black sea and grew at Tel Aviv, Israel. Barr s first painting guide was s. zafrir, an old Israeli master, that since 1995 provided him with the basics of drawing. Theodor barr is a self made artist with broad education in the area of astronomy, mathematics, literature and history, so far two of his books where published, one of them is ‘frau gruber' s camp', that appeared in 2006, a thrilling allegory about German history. And a children book named "krombee". Barr wrote about twenty articles that were published in the Israeli media. His current pictures are motivated from the deep space photos, sent to earth by the Hubble telescope, on big canvases 150x150 or 120x120 cm he mixes rare combination of tar, acrylic, oil and lacquer colors in order to capture the dark and glimmering essence of the deepest space and the most fantastic galaxies, planets,, white dwarfs and red giants. The technique used by barr is multi layers mixtures of dark cold tar and bright acrylic colors, on them oil and lacquers that gives the impression of bizarre unique individual world. It is impossible to compare barr works to any known painter; barr developed, especially in his latest tar based pictures, a private language, with multiple esoteric meaning. His latest body of works are "human forming" - inspired by embryos photography by lennart nilsson and "emerging from the white" - on wide canvases 200x150 cm, the combination of the two worlds the smallest embryos, and the largest, galaxies that stem from the white canvas rather than the dark tar.

Exhibitions
09/2001 old jaffa, Israel curator s. zafrir
04/2006 tel aviv fighters house, Israel curator s. kleinman
01/2007 neeman towers, tel aviv, Israel curator y. naor
05/2007 sokolov press house, tel aviv, Israel curator m. krimolovsky
09/2007 el-al airlines globus, tel aviv, Israel curator e. Drori
10/2007 old jaffa museum, old jaffa, israel curator n. Meirovitz
12/2007 istanbul art fair via nyarts Beijing curator t. nyego
01/2008 geological museum, r-h, Israel curator r. Sasporta
02/2008 cargo 21 gallery paris, france curator d. polack
02/2008 horace richter gallery, old jaffa curator r. vaser
03/2008 gora gallery, montreal, canada curator b. gora
05/2008 hertzliya science center, israel curator v. genosar
06/2008 janice charach gallery, detroit curator d. Peleg
07/2008 passion center, palo alto, california curator l. Jacob
12/2008 fusion art museum, new york curator d. polack
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