Buky Schwartz
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Buky Schwartz is an Israeli sculptor and video artist.
(1916-1977) at the Avni Institute of Art and Design
in Tel Aviv
. In 1959, he moved to London
, where he studied at the St. Martin's School of Art from 1959 to 1962. After returning to Israel
in 1963, he created severely geometrical painted steel sculptures. In 1971, he moved to New York City
, and began incorporating and making "video structures", videos in his large constructions, filling a room with different shapes which were all projected on a video screen as a unified whole. At that time he also placed mirrors within sculptures, reflecting both their full form and, from certain angles, their amputated parts. His video works are widely regarded in the United States
as a landmark in the development of this medium. He lived and worked in both Tel Aviv
and New York
until his death in 2009.
Biography
Schwartz was born in Jerusalem in 1932. From 1956 to 1958, he studied sculpture with Yitzhak DanzigerYitzhak Danziger
Yitzhak Danziger was an Israeli sculptor. He was one of the pioneer sculptors of the Canaanite Movement, and later joined the "Ofakim Hadashim" group.- Biography :Danziger was born in Berlin in 1916 to a Zionist family...
(1916-1977) at the Avni Institute of Art and Design
Avni Institute of Art and Design
The Avni Institute of Art and Design is an Israeli art school located in Tel Aviv. The institute is known for teaching and employing many well known Israeli artists and designers....
in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
. In 1959, he moved to London
London
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, where he studied at the St. Martin's School of Art from 1959 to 1962. After returning to Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
in 1963, he created severely geometrical painted steel sculptures. In 1971, he moved to New York City
New York City
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, and began incorporating and making "video structures", videos in his large constructions, filling a room with different shapes which were all projected on a video screen as a unified whole. At that time he also placed mirrors within sculptures, reflecting both their full form and, from certain angles, their amputated parts. His video works are widely regarded in the United States
United States
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as a landmark in the development of this medium. He lived and worked in both Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
and New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
until his death in 2009.
Education
- 1957-59 Avni Institute of Art and DesignAvni Institute of Art and DesignThe Avni Institute of Art and Design is an Israeli art school located in Tel Aviv. The institute is known for teaching and employing many well known Israeli artists and designers....
, Tel AvivTel AvivTel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with... - 1959-62 St. Martin's School of Art, LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Awards
- 1961 Sainsbury Awards, Sainsbury's, United Kingdom
- 1962 German Critics' Prize, Association of German Critics, Berlin, Germany
- 1965 was awarded the Dizengoff PrizeDizengoff PrizeThe Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture is awarded annually by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality since 1937.The following is a table of Dizengoff Prize laureates in their respective art form:...
for Sculpture. - 1971 Nuremberg Urban Symposium Purchase Award, Nuremberg Urban Symposium, Nuremberg, Germany
- 1980 Fellowship, Community Arts Partnership, New York, USA
- 1983 Video Art Award, New York State Council on the Arts, New York, USA
- 1983 Residency Programme, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, USA
- 1987 Guggenheim Award, Guggenheim, New York, USA
- 1988 Sculpture Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, USA
- 1989 Annual International Prize for Video Sculpture, L'immagine Elettronica, Italy
- 1990 Grant for Publication, Guggenheim, New York, USA
- 1991 Painting and sculpture prize, Ministry of Culture and Education
- 1992 Video Sculpture Prize, Pollok Prize
- 1995 architect Arie El Hanani, Tel Aviv, Prize for Integration of Art and architecture
- Yehoshua Rabinowitz Fund for Arts, for his painted steel sculpture at Rothschild Blvd, Tel Aviv
Public sculptures
- 1963-64 Altars and Water Channels, Weizmann Institute of ScienceWeizmann Institute of ScienceThe Weizmann Institute of Science , known as Machon Weizmann, is a university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. It differs from other Israeli universities in that it offers only graduate and post-graduate studies in the sciences....
, RehovotRehovotRehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2009 the city had a total population of 112,700. Rehovot's official website estimates the population at 114,000.Rehovot was built on the site of Doron,... - 1967 - "עמוד הגבורה", יד ושם, ירושלים (תמונה)
- 1969 Gates, Yad VashemYad VashemYad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament....
, Jerusalem, Israel - 1969 White from 0 Degrees to 180 Degrees, 1969, Israel MuseumIsrael MuseumThe Israel Museum, Jerusalem was founded in 1965 as Israel's national museum. It is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem, near the Bible Lands Museum, the Knesset, the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
, Jerusalem, Israel - 1986 Memorial to Jonathan Netanyahu, 1986, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
- 1986 - Dead Sea Sculpture , Ein BokekEin BokekEin Bokek is a hotel and resort district on the Israeli shore of the Dead Sea, near Neve Zohar. It is under the jurisdiction of the Tamar Regional Council....
, Dead SeaDead SeaThe Dead Sea , also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. Its surface and shores are below sea level, the lowest elevation on the Earth's surface. The Dead Sea is deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world...
תמונה) - 1990 Metropolis, 1990, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...
, Tel Aviv, Israel (תמונה) - 1996 - "אובליסק", דרך קיבוץ גלויות 34, תל אביב-יפו
- 1998 - "כותרת", מחוץ לבית ישרכארט, רח' המסגר 40, תל אביב-יפו
- 1998 - "מכונת פינבול", בית ישרכארט, רח' המסגר 40, תל אביב-יפו
- 1998 Environmental Sculpture, Ra'ananaRa'ananaRa'anana is a city in the heart of the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel with a population of 68,300, . Ra'anana is bordered by Kfar Sava on the east and Herzliya on the southwest...
(תמונה) - 2001 "Leonardo" Ramat Poleg, NetanyaNetanyaNetanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...
- Painted steel sculpture, Rothschild Blvd, Tel AvivTel AvivTel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
- 2002 - "בין ארץ לשמים", קריית אונו
- 2002 - "העץ הנדיב", רח' הופיין פינת רח' ויצמן, חולון
- 2007 Mosquito, Tel Aviv Museum of ArtTel Aviv Museum of ArtThe Tel Aviv Museum of Art is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was established in 1932 in a building that was the home of Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff. The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art opened in 1959. The museum moved to its current location on King Saul Avenue in...
, Tel Aviv, Israel(תמונה) - "אווירון", תיאטרון גבעתיים, גבעתיים (תמונה)
Further reading
- Bex, F., W. van Mulders, and H. van Pelt, Beyond Surface: Peter Berg, Benni Efrat, Tim Head, Buky Schwartz, Antwerp. Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, 1980.
- Hanhardt, John G., Buky Schwartz Videotapes 1978-80, Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, 1980.
- Museum of Israeli Art, Buky Schwartz 1990, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Museum of Israeli Art, 1990.
- Tel-Aviv Museum, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Buky Schwartz Sculptures, Tel-Aviv, The Tel-Aviv Museum, 1969.
- Videoart.net, 'Buky Schwartz Videoconstructions', with, commentary by John G.Hanhardt, 2007.
External links
- Buky Schwartz artist's website http://www.bukyschwartz.com/
- Buky Schwartz from the Israeli artist list of the Information Center for Israeli ArtInformation Center for Israeli ArtThe Information Center for Israeli Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the Israeli Art in Israel. More than 12,000 artists files are housed in the Center in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem....
at the Israel MuseumIsrael MuseumThe Israel Museum, Jerusalem was founded in 1965 as Israel's national museum. It is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem, near the Bible Lands Museum, the Knesset, the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....