Royden Rabinowitch

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Royden Rabinowitch (born March 6, 1943 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian - Belgian sculptor and draftsman .

life and work

Royden Rabinowitch was born in Toronto, Canada in 1943. Haim D. Rabinowitch is his uncle and the sculptor David Rabinowitch is his twin brother .

He spent his school days at Richmond Hill High School , Ontario. In the 1960s, at the beginning of his career in London , he belonged to an artist group around Tony Urquhart . After moving to Waterloo , he taught fine arts at the University of Waterloo and later at the Ontario College of Fine Art . In the 1970s he moved to the USA and taught at Yale University in New Haven . Further teaching positions at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom , at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands followed.

R. Rabinowitch lives in Ghent , Belgium and Dublin , Ireland.

R. Rabinowitch's work includes floor and wall sculptures made of metal as well as large-format drawings that are artistically very close to minimalism . In his early works he explicitly refers to Alberto Giacometti , David Smith and Constantin Brâncuși .

“(...) In addition to art, Rabinowitch also deals with the study of music and natural science. These lead him to the conviction that the shape of reality, which is clearly defined by the rationality of science, cannot be reconciled with the sensual-physical space of experience. For him, the contradiction between knowledge and experience becomes the subject of an intensive discussion that continues to this day and is therefore of decisive influence in the development of his consistent visual language. (...) "

- Roland Nachtigäller

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Royden Rabinowitch Introduction by Roland Nachtigäller, MARTa Herford gGmbH, 2009
  • Sculpture Sein , Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (curator: Harald Szeemann ), 1989
  • Chambres d'Amis Museum van Hededaagse Kunst , Ghent, Belgium (curator: Jan Hoet ), 1986
  • Seduction of space - classic examples Stuttgart, Germany (curators: Rudi Fuchs , Veit Görner) 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia Royden Rabinowitch , accessed September 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Haim D. Rabinowitch accessed on June 30, 2013 (English)
  3. ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia Royden Rabinowitch , accessed June 30, 2013.
  4. ↑ Biography Royden Rabinowitch ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on June 30, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rabinowitch.com
  5. ^ Roland Nachtigäller: MARTa Herford , accessed on June 30, 2013.
  6. ↑ Museum Abteiberg … shows works by Rabinowitch and Heerich again after years ( memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 30, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moenchengladbach.de
  7. ↑ MARTa Herford , accessed June 30, 2013
  8. ↑ Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts Governor Royden Rabinowitch ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on June 30, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ggavma.canadacouncil.ca
personal data
SURNAME Rabinowitch, Royden
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rabinowitch, Royden Leslie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-Belgian sculptor and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto