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Esther Shalev-Gerz
Esther Shalev-Gerz (born Gilinsky) is a contemporary artist. She lives and works in Paris. Biography Esther Shalev-Gerz was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1948. In 1957, she moved with her family to Jerusalem. From 1975 to 1979 she studied Fine arts at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design where she got her Bachelor of Fine Arts. She then lived in New York City for one year (1980/81). From 1981 she participated in collective exhibitions in institutions such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. In 1983 she produced her first work in public space: ''Oil on Stone'', a permanent installation in Tel Hai, Israel, for the Tel Hai Contemporary Art Meeting. In 1984 the artist moved to Paris and started working through Europe and Canada. In 1990 she got an artistic residency from the German Academic Exchange Service and moved to Berlin for one year. In 2002 she stayed at the IASPIS residency in Stockholm. From 2003 to 2014 she taught the Master of Fine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Artist
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of Medium (arts), materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century. Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organising principle, ideology, or "-ism". Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality. In vernacular English, ''modern'' and ''contemporary'' are synonyms, resulting in some conflation and confusion of the terms ''modern art'' and ''contemporary art'' by non-specialists. Scope Some define contemporary art as art produced within "our lifetime," recognising tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
