Motti Mizrachi
| Motti Mizrachi | |
|---|---|
 Motti Mizrachi (2012) | |
| Native name | מוטי מזרחי |
| Born |
Mordechai Mizrachi 1946 Tel Aviv |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Education | Bezalel Academy of Art and Design |
| Known for | sculpture, multimedia |
| Notable work | Via Dolorosa (1973), The Eye of the Sun (2012) |
| Movement | Israeli art |
| Website |
mottimizrachi |
Mordechai "Motti״ Mizrachi (Hebrew: מוטי מזרחי, born 1946) is an Israeli multimedia artist whose politically engaged conceptual works since the 1970s involve sculpture, video, photography, public art and performance. Mizrachi's seminal performance work Dough and Via Dolorosa (1973) and Healing (1980), has marked the emergence of Israeli performance and video art avant-garde. Since the 1980s, he has primarily worked as a sculptor, notably creating numerous site specific public sculptures.
Mizrachi's legs are disabled since childhood and this disability is often expressed in his works. He uses humor and self-irony in his works, with an emphasis on the flaws and pleasures of the human body, while examining the oppression and control of the strong over the weak, both socially and politically. He was represented in the 1980 Biennale de Paris, the 1987 and 1981 São Paulo Art Biennials, the 1988 Venice Biennale, and the 2003 Valencia Biennale.
Mizrachi lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Public Art Gallery
The Fall of the Muses, 1991
Bronze
Ra'anana Park
The Fall of the Muses, 1991
Bronze
Ra'anana Park
Sprinkler, 1996
Holon
Education
- 1969-73 Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem
Teaching
- 1980-1987 Bezalel, Jerusalem
- College of Art, School of Art Teachers, Ramat Hasharon
- Camera Obscura, Tel Aviv
Prizes
- 1976 - The Beatrice S. Kolliner Award for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- 1987 - Israeli Artist Award, Tel Aviv Museum and Bank Discount
- 1987 - Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- 1987 - Award, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
- 1997 - Prize to encourage creativity, Ministry of Education and Culture
- 2001 - The Dan Sandel and Sandel Family Foundation Sculpture Award, Shoe Sculpture,Tel Aviv Museum of Art
- 2002 - Award, Israel Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
External links
- MottiMizrachi.com Official website. Retrieved March 2012
- Motti Mizrachi YouTube channel. Retrieved March 2012
- Motti Mizrachi at the Information Center for Israeli Art. Israel Museum. Retrieved March 2012.
- Art of Motti Mizrachi at Europeana. Retrieved February 2012
- http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/10/02/whats-that-huge-white-bridal-dress-floating-over-the-tower-of-david/.. Retrieved November 2015.
References
- Agassi, Meir, Zadok Ben David, Motti Mizrachi. The Israeli Pavilion, The Venice Biennale 1988, Venice, 1988.
- Sabine Schaschl ;Abstrakt - real : Txomin Badiola, Lillian Ball, Alain Balzac, Lolly Batty, Torie Begg, BP, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Tony Carter, Helen Chadwick, Jordi Colomer, Grenville Davey, Noël Dolla, Heinrich Dunst, Christian Eckart, Mikael Fagerlund, Dominique Figarella, Alex Hartley, Pello Irazu, György Jovánovics, Clay Ketter, Jir̆í Kovanda, Brigitte Kowanz, Bertrand Labier, Motti Mizrachi, Miquel Mont, Liliana Moro, Masato Nakamura, Julian Opie, Pascal Pinaud, Jaume Plensa, Patrick Raynaud, Werner Reiterer, Rui Sanches, Cédric Teisseire, Richard Wentworth, Rachel Whiteread, Yukinori Yanagi, Christina Zurfluh. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 1996, ISBN 3-901310-66-5.
- Haifa Museums, Motti Mizrachi-Rwanda Casanova, Haifa Museums, 2000, ISBN 965-7067-18-9.
- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Lachnit, Edwin & Sophie Haaser, Makom: zeitgenössische Kunst aus Israel, Ido Bar-El, Nurit David, Gideon Gechtman, Tamar Getter, Uri Katzenstein, Motti Mizrachi, Moshe Ninio, Sigal Primor, Daniel Sack, David Shvili, Micha Ullmann, Wien, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 1993, ISBN 3-900776-45-8.
- The Absent Body, Body Imagery Between Judaism and Christianity in the work of eight Israeli artists, Beit Hatfutsot, 2012, ISBN 978-965-425-024-5.
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