Timur Tsaku was born in 1971 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Tsaku graduated from the Tashkent Art School in 1987, and attended the P. P. Benkov Art Institute, where he studied Scenic design. In 1991 he became an assistant to the head scenic designer of the Gorki Republican Arts Theater of Drama in Tashkent.  Later that year, he moved to Israel where he created a series of paintings called “The Republic of Israel”, which were shown at the Ashdod Museum. In 1991, Tsaku returned to his homeland and became an Instructor of painting and drawing at the Tashkent Academy of Art and Theater.  In 2001 he returned to Israel to start a new line of works taking its motif in the Old Testament. Tsaku’s paintings were acquired for the permanent collections of the Israel Museum and the President’s Residence, both in Jerusalem.

Tsaku’s paintings begin with abstracted backgrounds in acrylic. “When the surfaces of the panels are almost completed” Tsaku says, “these moody, abstracted landscapes reveal the figures that will encompass the majority of the image.” The artist uses a “triple zero” paint brush and magnifying glass to achieve a hyper-realistic, almost photographic representation of the people and animals depicted in his unique imagery. (bio from artist website)

To see more of Tsaku’s work, visit Tsaku.com

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