Moni Abutbul - Stay Safe

Name of Artwork | Stay Safe Technique | Airbrush on painted canvas Year of Creation | 2025 Size | 100 cm x 100 cm Price | 2000€ One of a kind Shipping | From 250€ (Additional fees may apply) Moni Abutbul is a self-taught Israeli artist who creates an emotionally charged visual world, where imagery of Mizrahi masculinity meets softness, vulnerability, and queer tension. Through painting, objects, and a precise material language, his works examine relations between body, memory, identity, and culture, drawing from his Moroccan roots and his personal experience of living between worlds. Moni's works are characterized by monumental yet quiet masculine figures, a saturated yet restrained color palette, and a blend of contemporary aesthetics and an almost mythological feel. Flowers, water, ceramics, local patterns, and everyday objects transform in his work into symbols of intimacy, longing, pain, and love. During the war period, another layer of deep grief and fracture was added to his work. The imagery of men and youths, which always fluctuated between strength and gentleness, took on a further dimension of loss and compassion. Out of this tension, works were born that seek to create a human, sensual, and vulnerable space within a violent and turbulent reality. Alongside his artistic practice, Moni also operates in the worlds of design, material, and hospitality, combining a high artistic language with a sensitivity to objects, space, and experience. His creation moves between the personal and the collective, and between local nostalgia and a contemporary, international aesthetic.