Selected Works
Kobi Assaf
Born in 1982, Israel
Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel
Kobi Assaf brings the cultural spirit of the 19th century to the 21st. His paintings are drenched in a non-Israeli brown mist, illuminated with a dim twilight, to create the look of paintings made before the era of electricity. The imprint of Romanticism is in his paintings, with its yearning for distant realms, like the European Romantics, yet they also contain sober self-aware modernism.
To achieve this goal, Assaf shatters the philosophical harmony of thought, leaving sections of his paintings bare and unfinished. He depends on his sharp painterly power and scatters hints that suffice to construct a world that is “similar” but restless.
Assaf ‘s work fundamentally differs from the conventions of Classism and Romanticism that strived to achieve a sensation of peacefulness, as he rises to the threshold of consciousness a demonic, seductive and dark universe.
EXHIBITIONS

Group Show
91-DIVOC
Jun 1 - Aug 31, 2020

Group Show
Summer Show 2019
Jul 1 - Aug 31, 2019

Group Show
French Salon 2
Jul 1 - Aug 31, 2019

Group Show
Winter
Feb 14 - Mar 22, 2019

Group Show
N18
Nov 1 - Dec 14, 2018

Group Show
Summer Show 2018
Jun 28 - Aug 31, 2018

Group Show
French Salon
Mar 8 - Apr 27, 2018

Group Show
Summer Show 17
Aug 8 - Sep 17, 2017

Group Show
March 2017
Mar 10 - Apr 14, 2017

Group Show
Alternative
Jan 19 - Mar 5, 2017

Group Show
Homecoming
Dec 22, 2016 - Jan 17, 2017

Group Show
Spring Break
Apr 20 - May 18, 2016

Group Show
40,30,20
Jan 8, 2015 - Feb 19, 2016

Special Project
Studios
Mar 27 - Apr 24, 2015

Group Show
Concrete Fantasy
Feb 26 - Mar 26, 2015

Group Show
Zemack’s 3rd Birthday
Jan 10 - Feb 15, 2014
ART FAIRS

Fresh Paint
May 30 - Jun 3, 2019

Fresh Paint 10
Apr 26 - 30, 2018

Fresh Paint 9
Mar 28 - Apr 1, 2017

Art Stage Singapore
Jan 12 - 14, 2017

Art Miami
Nov 29 - Dec 4, 2016

Art Toronto
Oct 28 - 31, 2016

Art New York
May 3 - 8, 2016

Art Market SF
Apr 27 - May 1, 2016

Fresh Paint 8
Apr 5 - 9, 2016

Art Miami New York
May 14 - 17, 2015

Art Toronto
Oct 23 - 27, 2014
PRESS



Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2019
Mixed Media on Canvas, 197 x 128 cm

Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2020
Mixed Media on Canvas, 187 x 125 cm


Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2019
Mixed Media on Canvas, 115 x 86 cm


Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2017
Mixed Media on Canvas, 56 x 45 cm

Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2019
Mixed Media on Canvas, 40 x 29 cm

Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2019
Mixed Media on Canvas, 36 x 26 cm


Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2019
Mixed Media on Canvas, 37 x 27 cm





Mixed Media on Canvas, 55 x 43 cm

Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2017
Mixed Media on Canvas, 78 x 120 cm

Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2017
Mixed Media on Canvas, 32 x 37 cm

Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2014
Oil on Canvas, 24 x 41 cm

Kobi Assaf, Marbeling, 2016
Mixed Media on Canvas, 90 x 70 cm

Kobi Assaf, Mirroring, 2016
Mixed Media on Canvas, 65 x 88 cm

Kobi Assaf, Stage, 2016
Mixed Media on Canvas, 90 x 170 cm

Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2014
Mixed Media on Canvas, 140 x 247 cm

Kobi Assaf, The Craft, 2016
Mixed Media on Paper, 20 x 30 cm

Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2014
Mixed Media on Canvas, 48 x 50 cm

Kobi Assaf, Snowman, 2013
Mixed Media on Canvas, 150 x 115 cm

Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2014
Mixed Media on Canvas, 52 x 42 cm

Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2014
Mixed Media on Canvas, 127 x 169 cm

Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2014
Watercolor on Paper, 36 x 26 cm

Kobi Assaf, Untitled, 2014
Watercolor on Paper, 10 x 16 cm

Kobi Assaf, Girl on Horse, 2016
Oil on Canvas, 73 x 90 cm

Kobi Assaf, Night Guard, 2016
Mixed Media on Canvas, 23 x 17 cm



