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Absalon  

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Published online:
31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Israeli, 20th century, male.

Active in France.

Born 1964, in Tel-Aviv; died 10 October 1993, in Paris.

Installation artist, environmental artist, video artist.

Absalon lived and worked in Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Christian Boltanski.

Absalon produced maquettes for ‘Utopian’ furniture upholstered entirely and uniformly in aseptic white plastic. Totally impractical, his furniture simply represents a desire to mark a departure from everyday convention. There is a strong element of play in some of his work, as in ...

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Achiam  

Publication History:

Published online:
31 October 2011
Collection:
Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Israeli, 20th century, male.

Active in France.

Born 10 February 1916, in Bet-Gan; died 16 March 2005, in Paris.

Sculptor. Public art.

Achiam studied initially at the college of agriculture in Jerusalem and was active in the Israeli resistance against the British occupying forces. He started to teach himself sculpture at the age of 24, working directly with the dark grey basalt stone readily available in the environs of Jerusalem. Achiam moved to Paris in ...

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Karavan, Dani  

Publication History:

Published online:
31 October 2011
Collection:
Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Israeli, 20th century, male.

Active in France.

Born 1930, in Tel Aviv.

Sculptor, environmental artist. Monuments.

Land Art.

Dani Karavan began his studies in Tel Aviv and at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, and continued them until 1957, first in Florence, where he learnt techniques of fresco painting with Mordechai Ardon, and then in Paris at the Grande Chaumière. In ...

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Morin, Ran  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Israeli, 20th – 21st century, female.

Born 1958, in Jerusalem.

Environmental artist, sculptor.

Ran Morin exhibited Hanging Orange Tree, a mix of the natural and the artificial, at the Horace Richter Gallery, Tel Aviv, in 1994. She has also created a number of environmental sulptures, including the garden of the kibbutz Ramat Rahel, near Jerusalem, and ...