Achiam

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Achiam (1993) works on the torso of a dancer

Ahiam Shoshany , called Achiam , (born February 10, 1916 in Bet Gan , Palestine , † March 26, 2005 in Paris , France ) was a French-Israeli sculptor .

life and work

Achiam worked with his father and brother on a farm in Palestine and he was trained at an agricultural school. After the death of his father and brother, he lived and worked in France for most of his life and had both Israeli and French citizenship .

He was trained as a sculptor by Zeev Ben Zvi and from 1945 worked in a quarry near Jerusalem . In 1947 he moved to Prague , where he won his first prize in an international competition advertised for a monument to Lidice . He later traveled to Paris, where he got to know the work of Art brut by Jean Dubuffet . He attended various studios , including those of Ossip Zadkine and Constantin Brâncuși , and stone sculptors in quarries.

He created figurative works with abstract forms from basalt , granite , alabaster and serpentinite , quartzite , sandstone , limestone and marble . Achiam also made works from wood and bronze .

Exhibitions

Achiam was able to exhibit works in the renowned René Drouin gallery in Paris as early as 1948 .

Some people resented him for living and working in Sèvres in France and not in Israel, where he exhibited regularly. An important exhibition of his was held in 1993 in Tefen sculpture garden in Tefen . In 2003 a museum was dedicated to him with his works, the Achiam Sculpture Museum in Fort Shuni , which is part of the archaeological site Caesarea Maritima near Binyamina in Israel.

19 of his works can be found near his home in Sèvres, which are located along a sculpture path shared by the Communauté d'agglomération Arc de Seine of Chaville , Issy-les-Moulineaux , Meudon , Vanves and Ville-d'Avray in the département Hauts-de-Seine were donated.

Symposia

As a stone sculptor , Achiam regularly took part in sculpture symposia:

Photo gallery

  • Goliath (1961)

  • Hommage aux patriotes tombés pour la liberté (1963)

  • Adam & Eve (1991) in Tefen

  • Joueur de guitare

Web links

Commons : Achiam  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ moreeuw.com : Biography Achiam, in French, accessed on June 13, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Achiam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahiam Shoshany (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Bet Gan , Palestine
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2005
Place of death Paris , France