My biography,
I was born in kibbutz Ha’zorea (1952) to my father…a Berliner Jewish artist who had to
flee / escape in 1932 from nazi Germany, and to my mother, a young lady from Tunisian origin who (just as well) had to flee/escape from Tunisia under occupation by the Italians Mussolini regime few years after. Kibbutz?... an agriculturally oriented, based on socialistic ideology, a communal way of living in the north of Israel. I was Studying, completing my obligations to my family, and the surroundings. In 1976 my life took a changed, I begun traveling for few years and more, which later turned me adapting to sort of A flaneurs like way of living…. I lived this way and did not really change it entirely until this present day. After studying in NSCAD University from 1983-85, in Nova Scotia, Canada, then continued my study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam(N-L), and from 1985-89. Following on, I established myself, living and working in the Netherlands, very near to the North Sea, raising my family, and making a few groups of friends with it. As by nature being sort of flaneur, I take the human being as the center…a center on this planet however as I am fascinated by the human - his basic elementary behavior and all what comes with it. It has led me to find and create my own form of art that I call body-sculpture. I uses/takes the human in the most elementary, existential position and form, putting the human at the center of my creation, emphasizing physicality, mental, emotional movement and space with the sounds which is being created throughout. I like seeing, emphasizing the essential. The very basic… seeing where it all leads me into, yes, I do love this un-known, at time cherish this aspect of creation. When this creation…new unit of human &sculptural construction is completed, I love working on the synthesis - the relation between the work, the human, and the space. Since 1986 to the present, I have created about 10 different body-sculptural objects (each taking me about a year+++of making), that are mostly directly related because of a very important, significant event in my life, as having my own newborn children, or getting stuck with no place to live. So yes, often my work just happens, not really in full awareness of this, but more as a spontaneous response to things called life. But, yes, they all are direct, connected to me. And yes, at the end of the day when I am looking over my work as a whole, in total… then I like them to talk, scream? preferably just sing…
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