Artist:
Buky Schwartz
Title:
Mosquito
Year:
2007
Adress:
Tel Aviv Museum
www.wikipedia.org:
Buky Schwartz (1932 - 2009) was born in Jerusalem and studied sculpture with Yitzhak Danziger at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv from 1956 to 1958. He moved to London in 1959, where he studied at the St. Martin's School of Art for several years. After returning to Israel in 1963, he created severely geometrical painted steel sculptures. In 1971 he moved to New York City and began incorporating videos into large constructions.
His sculptures in public places include:
- White from 0 Degrees to 180 Degrees, 1969, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
- Gates, 1969, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- Memorial to Jonathan Netanyahu, 1986, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Metropolis, 1990, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Mosquito, 2007, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Buky Schwartz (1932 - 2009) was born in Jerusalem and studied sculpture with Yitzhak Danziger at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv from 1956 to 1958. He moved to London in 1959, where he studied at the St. Martin's School of Art for several years. After returning to Israel in 1963, he created severely geometrical painted steel sculptures. In 1971 he moved to New York City and began incorporating videos into large constructions.
His sculptures in public places include:
- White from 0 Degrees to 180 Degrees, 1969, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
- Gates, 1969, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- Memorial to Jonathan Netanyahu, 1986, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Metropolis, 1990, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Mosquito, 2007, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.