Israel Hadany

Israel Hadany ( he, ישראל הדני, Israel ha-Dani) (born 1941) is an Israeli environment artist , sculptor and jewelry designer, internationally acknowledged. He is involved with poetry writing as well.

Biography

Early life

Born in Beit HaShita kibutz. Along his childhood his family moved several times, first to Ayelet Hashahar kibutz, later to Kfar Ganim (nearby Petah Tikva) and finally to Jerusalem.

In 1955, at the age of 14, he departed from his family and joined alone to kibutz Degania.

Artistic studies and career

1956-1957 At the age of 15 he started his art studies at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv, taking evening courses while continuing his high school learning during day time. He was the youngest student in the institute among other mature students. He focused on drawing and painting studies and was deeply involved in his art. Later he returned there but soon realized that painting is not going to be enough for his artistic and personal aspirations.

1965 - 1967 He turned to post graduate studies at Hornsey College of Art, London.

The years in London influenced deeply his art. His confrontation with monumental ancient civilization's art in the British Museum was highly influential and left a significant imprint on his art. He mentions often a monumental sculpture from the Easter Islands . In Hornsey College he focused mainly on sculpture.

Several years after his return to Israel (1971) he was invited to teach sculpture and design at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

1972 Hadany Represented Israel at the in hadany "Venice Biennale", Italy.

After this year he did not return to teaching.

Hadany often collaborates in his art with architects and thinkers and creates environmental works of art.

1975 He works with Taller de Arquitectura of Ricardo Bofill. Barcelona .

1981-1982 creates the first artonomic system in sculpture.

1983 Represents Israel at the International Symposium on Outdoor Sculpture at Yorkshire.

2000 Among the five finalists in the international competition of Martin Luther King National Memorial Project Washington.

2001 Guest artist at the International Sculpture Symposium, Carrara.

2005 Awarded an honorary doctoral degree by Monmouth University, New Jersey.

Selected Public Works

1973 Sculpture, Eshkol Park , Dimona.

1975 Glass Sculpture, Beit Yad Lebanim, Jerusalem.

1977 ''Memorial Sculpture'' , Ben Gurion Airport .

1978 Hadany Arch, road sculpture . Williamsport , Pennsylvenia.

1984 Arthur Rubinstein Memorial Sculpture. Aminadav Forest. Israel

1985 ''Sky Pool'' , The Open Museum ,Tefen , Israel.

1987 ''Sky Pool'' , The Israel Museum Sculpture Garden.

1988 ''Light Tower, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia.''

1990 Gate to Peace, Ben Gurion University, Beersheba, Israel.

1992 Environmental Sculpture, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel.

2005 ''Oasis'', Environmental Sculpture, Northern entrance BeerSheba.

''You Who Bear Memories of All Times. outdoor sculpture, Prague''

1998 ''Daniel in the Lions' Den''. the Open Museum, Tefen.

1998 ''The Shrine of Trees , the National Library , Hebrew University , Jerusalem.''

2001 ''Here lays the dove's shadow.Carrara.''

2016 The Blue System . Har Hotzvim Jerusalem

Hadany's art is concerned with the sublime and the transcendental often allusive of ancient monumental Egyptian and Assyrian art .Most of his earlier three dimensional works were geometrical and minimalistic. but after his visit to India in 2005 his art has undergone a deep change and was opened to new directions. Oasis, his artistic environment in Beersheba for instance is colourful and rich in shapes.

Selected individual shows

2004 " Visual Memories" The Open Museum Tefen. Israel.

Selected grants and awards

1970 Kolliner Prize for young artist . Israel Museum.

1974 First prize for design of memorial site of Paula and David Ben Gurion in Sde Boker

Sharet grant for further studies in Europe

1978 First prize for design of Mediterranean art center Theoulone Sur mer in southern France.

1980 The Jerusalem Prize of art.

2000 Among the finalists on the contest for Martin Luther King Memorial

2012 Dan Sendel Prize by Tel Aviv Museum of art.

References

Sources

*Meir Ronen, The building blocks , The Jerusalem Post 5/7/1985
*Meir Ronen, Jewelry of Sculpture, The Jerusalem Post 3/3/1989
*Miriam Yizrael "שמים בקרקעית העולם פסלי ישראל הדני"
"Sky in the bottom of the world" , Studio, October 1990
*Gilad Meltzer, "Like an Archeologic site" Yediot Ahronot 12/3/2004
* Israel Hadany "In Search of the Sacred" (exhibition catalogue. article by Gideon Ofrat)

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1941 births
Living people
Israeli sculptors