Buky Schwartz

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Buky Schwartz (1980)

Buky Schwartz , also Moshé Schwartz , (born June 16, 1932 in Jerusalem , † September 1, 2009 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli sculptor and video artist .

life and work

Buky Schwartz studied from 1956 to 1958 with the sculptor Itzhak Danziger at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. He went to London in 1959 , where he continued his sculpture studies at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design from 1959 to 1962 . In 1960 Schwartz was a participant in the sculpture symposium St. Margarethen by Karl Prantl with other stone sculptors in Austria near Sankt Margarethen in Burgenland . In October 1961 he took part with Herbert Baumann , Gerson Fehrenbach and Yasuo Mizui in the symposium of European sculptors 1961–1963 , the so-called Wall Symposium in Berlin , before that in the summer of 1961 he was a participant in the first German sculptor symposium, the sculptor symposium Kaisersteinbruch , in Gaubüttelbrunn in Unterfrankentelbrunn .

In 1963 he returned to Israel; There he put his skills to work on geometric steel structures. He represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1960 and 1966. In 1971 he moved to New York ; there he converted his artistic ideas into video art . In 1987 he was invited to documenta 8 in Kassel , Germany.

The artist lived and worked in Tel Aviv and New York until his death in 2009.

Work (selection)

  • White from 0 degrees to 180 degrees (1969), Israel Museum , Jerusalem
  • Column of Heroes (1970), Yad Vashem , Jerusalem
  • Free Levitation (1976)
  • Reflection triangle (1980)
  • Memorial to Jonathan Netanyahu (1986), Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
  • Metropolis (1990), Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv
  • Plato's Cave (1992), Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College Campus , Middlebury , Vermont
  • A window on the boulevard - steel sculpture and chair (1992), Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv
  • Mosquito (2007), Tel Aviv Museum of Art , Tel Aviv

photos

literature

  • Buky Schwartz Sculptures , The Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv (1969)
  • F. Bex, W. van Mulders, H. van Pelt: Beyond Surface: Peter Berg, Benni Efrat, Tim Head , Buky Schwartz , Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp (1980)
  • John G. Hanhardt: Buky Schwartz Videotapes 1978-80 , The Israel Museum, Jeruzalem (1980)
  • Buky Schwartz 1990 , Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan (1990)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Video type: Buky Schwartz Videoconstructions (2007), with a comment by John G. Hanhardt ( memento of the original of July 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.videoart.net

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Schwartz, Buky
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwartz, Moshe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli sculptor and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2009
Place of death Tel Aviv , Israel