The ‘Definitive Rap’ interviewed Alex Tubis, the real artist behind some of the most dramatic paintings in the Netflix hit series, Shtisel.
During the interview, Alex discussed how he was selected to “audition” for the behind the scenes role, and the surprise when they selected him for the series. During the interview, you can see commonalities between Alex and the Akiva character played by Michael Aloni.
In the works of those great masters he could see the same things he is trying to perceive in his own art – unsurpassed level of truth, intimacy, sculpted light which provides divine beauty mixed with sadness of being. Alex’s paintings subjects vary from people who are closest to him to unremarkable from the first sight Israeli landscapes that he sees around him. People react to his painting as “capturing time” and “eternal polaroid”. Tubis is a lecturer for drawing and painting at the Bezalel academy in Jerusalem.
