From drawing to the wall.
Avi Tal works under the name SPINE B7. Raised in Be’er Sheva, he came to painting through graffiti and developed a practice in murals, public art and the making of physical spaces.
Drawing and making were present from childhood. Model aircraft and technical work taught him to think about measurement, structure and how an idea becomes an object. Painting gave that practical approach a visual language.
Scale, earned through practice.
In Dimona, he painted the exterior walls of a municipal football stadium. Guinness World Records lists the work as the largest spray paint mural by one artist, measuring 2,038.96 m², with an achievement date of 1 March 2016.
The record is part of a wider practice: murals in industrial settings, a civic wall in Be’er Sheva, a building façade in Tel Aviv and a painted Skyvan aircraft. Each work brings a different surface and a different set of physical decisions.
The Dimona project ↗Public space. Shared memory.
Alongside mural painting, Avi develops heritage and memorial environments with Amram Aklum. Their work brings Ethiopian-Israeli history into spaces through images, objects and material.
In 2024 he contributed to the Israeli-American Council’s Hostage Square installation in Chicago. The commission placed his painting within a wider exhibition and a public conversation about October 7 and its aftermath.
The connection to Shidrah.
Avi founded Shidrah Studio to carry the practice into designed and fabricated environments. SPINE B7 is the artist’s portfolio. Shidrah is the studio for heritage spaces, sculpted interiors and projects that bring several disciplines together.
He works from Israel and welcomes international commissions, with a focus on the relationship between an artwork and the place it will inhabit.
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