Dani Karavan
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Dani Karavan (born 1930 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli sculptor. He is best known for outdoor works which merge into the environment. In 1998 Karavan was one of five recipients of the Japanese annual Praemium Imperiale art prize. One of his most important works is a memorial sculpture for Walter Benjamin in Portbou at the Spanish-French border in Spain where the German-Jewish author died in September 1940.
[edit] Major Works
- Negev memorial monument (1963-68, Beersheva)
- Kikar Levana (Hebrew:The White Plaza; 1977-1988, Tel Aviv, Israel）
- Axis of the Metropolis (1980-, Cergy-Pontoise, France)
- The Way of Human Rights (1989-93, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany)
- Passage, a Homage to Walter Benjamin (1990-94, Portbou, Catalonia)
- The Path of the Hidden Garden (1992-99, Sapporo Art Forest open-air gallery, Japan)
- Ma'ayan (1993-95, Miyazaki Prefecture Art Museum, Japan)
- Bereshit (Hebrew:Genesis; 2000-, Kirishima Art Forest, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan)
