The Elephant Behind the ClownBorn in Tel Aviv in 1967 and now living in Copenhagen, the artist rose to fame with his seemingly navely painted abstractions, in which some viewers liked to spot visual goulash for one, or simply celebrated the values of artistic expression and its autonomy, presumed dead a long time ago. Alongside a simple abstraction of figurative signs, the powerful, strictly selected and deployed palette of colours was particularly eye catching. The paintings