Dani Karavan

Dani Karavan is an artist Plasticien and Sculpteur born in 1930 with Tel-Aviv.

Biography

It makes its studies at the School of the Art schools with Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, then with the Academy of Beautiful Arte of Florence, and with the Académie of the Large Thatched cottage to Paris. It represents Israel with Biennial Venice in 1976; it is present at Documenta 6 of Kassel in 1977. He is in particular professor invited to the School of the Art schools of Paris in 1984. He received in 1998 Praemium Imperiale with the Japan (equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Arts).

Works

Famous, its monumental achievements want to be more one invitation with the voyage which a realization that one observes: the visitor is invited to move within the formed complex. One also notes that it often uses raw material materials, such as the Eau, the Sable, the Béton, the Acier… or even the wind. Here some of its works:

Sculpture-environment in the Negev desert, Israel, installed 1963 with 1968;
Low-relief with the Knesset, Jerusalem, 1965;
Various decorations for Martha Graham, New York, of 1961 with 1974;
Exposure-environment with Strong di Belvedere, Florence, 1978;
Reflection , containing mirrors and of Laser S;
Museum of modern art of the town of Paris, 1983;
Way of the Human rights , Nuremberg, 1993;
the Public garden of the tolerance and gardens of the UNESCO, Paris, of 1993 with 1998;
Homage to the deportees , Camp of Gurs, 1994;
secret Garden , Sapporo, Japan, (1999);
the Square Urbain in the Park of the Sources of the Beaver to Guyancourt in the Yvelines, 2000;
Way of Peace , at the border Israel-Egypt, 2000.
Homage to Walter Benjamin , cemetery of Portbou, Spain.

See too

Internal bonds

Sculpture

External bonds

Official site of Dani Karavan
Maintenance with Dani Karavan with Alain Pichon

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