Biography
Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1944. Lives in Adamit, Israel and Caracas, Venezuela.
(1964-1969) B.Sc. Architecture and Urban Planning ,Technion, Israel
(1968-1971) B.A. Poetics and Comparative Literature, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
(1981-1983) Center of Studies for the Graphic Arts, Caracas, Venezuela
Works in the fields of printmaking, sculpture and photography.
I began making photo etchings in 1989. In recent years my initial image source has been of a socio-political nature, Specifically, I explore the different enforced or voluntary movements of people, the polarization between groups and the matrialization of borders that have been drawn up in an aggressive and artificial manner as a result of political arrangements ignoring geographical and social factors.
As an artist who has been living in two countries, Israel and Venezuela and for a short period in India, my view of the political expresses itself in the following dualities. I am interested in the opposition between distance and proximity, inside and outside, the embraceable and the unreachable, represented by alternate spaces, cohesion of scales, topographical reminiscences, and superposition of contradictory angles and perspectives. My constant moving forces and enables me to view the world in these terms.
My etchings stem from photographs taken in very precise moments in order to document experiences; the images become the specific, referential springboard for the development and evolution of thematic series of works. My encounter with places generates at one and the same time a discovery, a meditation, a representation, and an invention, united in the now of perception, and later, in their deferral in the invention of the work.
