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Alive and Alien In Jerusalem
Etching, signed in pencil, numbered 5/5, sheet 6 1/2" x 18 3/4"
From Jerusalem print workshop.
Asaf Ben Zvi, Israeli contemporary artist, was born in Kfar Yehezkel, Israel, 1953. Studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem and the Pratt Institute, New York. Laureate of numerous awards, notably the Rappaport Prize for an Established Artist for 2011, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Lives and works in Jerusalem.
He did his army service in a commando unit and fought in the Yom Kippur War. After his discharge from the army he settled in Jerusalem and became interested in bird-watching. In 1981 he began to study architecture at Bezalel, but transferred to the art department. During the period of his studies, he worked primarily in sculpture, but after a period of study in New York, he began to paint as well. From the mid-1980s he made use of simple figures, so abstracted in their form that they became symbolic figures. Some of these figures were connected to biographical baggage, while others were based on trivial events. Many of his works are based on poetic texts that show his interest in esthetics and in the relationship between the painter and society.
Education
1981-1985 Bezalel School of Art and Design, Jerusalem, BFA
1985 Pratt Institute, New York.City, USA
Teaching
1933 Bezalel School of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
Since 1989 Kalisher School, Tel Aviv.
Awards And Prizes
1981-82, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Grant
1982-83, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Grant
1987 Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1989 Mendel Pundik Prize for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1991 Rafael and Hadassah Klatchkin Prize, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1992 Prize for Plastic Arts, Ministry of Education
1994 Bank Discount Prize for an Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1997 Eugene Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Arts, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2011 Prize for an Established Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Environmental Sculptures
1982 Tel-Haisaf Ben Zvi was involved in ornithology until the early 1990s. In 1981, he enrolled in the Art department at Israel’s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. During his studies, he participated in a student exchange program at the Pratt Institute in New York. From the outset, Ben Zvi’s focus has been on nature and the environment. Ecological and human disasters and natural disasters initially played an main role in his work and received expression through various fields of color, with motifs such as a cross, a water flask, a wasp, butterfly or bird, symbolizing the fragile human existence steeped in an eternal struggle.
In his later work, words penetrate the space of his paintings and art, reflecting on the private, public, local and universal realms. "Ben Zvi at his best is a visual poet, one who places words with great sensitivity to their tone and sometimes relinquishes the splendor of an image in favor of text and message."
The Printer's Imprint: Twenty Years with the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
Israel Museum, Jerusalem 15 November, 1994 - 14 February, 1995
Artists: Avraham Ofek, Fima (Roytenberg, Ephraim), Michael Kovner, Ofer Lellouche, Larry Abramson, Moshe Gershuni,Menashe Kadishman, Ivan Schwebel, Yehiel Shemi, Michail Grobman, Igael Tumarkin, Asaf Ben Zvi, Lea Nikel, Shaul Shatz, Uri Lifschitz.
Selected solo exhibitions:
1986 Gimmel Gallery
1990 Tel Aviv Museum, The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion
1996 Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999 Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000 Nachshon Gallery, Kibbutz Nachshon
- Creator:Asaf Ben Tzvi (1953)
- Dimensions:Height: 6.5 in (16.51 cm)Width: 18.75 in (47.63 cm)
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- Condition:Minor edge wear. Please see Photos.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38215310712
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