Moshe Gershuni
| Moshe Gershuni | |
|---|---|
 Moshe Gershuni, 2007 | |
| Born |
1936 (age 77–78) Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Field | Painting |
| Training | Avni Institute of Art and Design, Tel Aviv |
| Movement | Israeli art |
Moshe Gershuni (born 1936) is an Israeli painter.
Biography
Moshe Gershuni was born in Tel Aviv during the British Mandate for Palestine. His parents Yona and Zvi Kutner immigrated there from Poland in the 1920s. He spent his childhood in Tel Aviv and graduated from the local religious high school in 1954. He has two siblings; a brother named Avshalom and a sister named Mira. From 1960 to 1964 he studied at the Avni Institute of Art and Design, an Israeli art school located in Tel Aviv.[1]
Art career
Since the 1960s, Moshe Gershuni has adopted an iconoclastic approach, examining paradigms of conceptual art. In the 1970s, he began to experiment with performance art. At the Venice Biennale in 1980, Gershuni showed paintings on paper in red lacquer, amidst canals of blood, creating an atmosphere of Holocaust.[2] Using free scrawl, drip, finger paint and calligraphy, he conjures up personal, Zionist, Moslem and Christian symbols. These works seem to have been created in a trance.
After graduating in 1964 from the Avni Institute of Art and Design he worked as a professor at various art schools. From 1972 to 1977 he worked as a professor at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel's national school of art. From 1978 to 1986 he taught at the Art Teachers Training College, in Ramat HaSharon.[1]
Awards and recognition
- 1969 Aika Brown Prize, Israel Museum
- 1982 Sandberg Prize for an Israeli Artist, Israel Museum
- 1988 Minister of Education and Culture Prize for a Young Artist,
- 1989 Kolb Prize, Tel Aviv Museum
- 1994 Sussman Prize, Yad Vashem
- 1995 Mendel and Eva Pondik Prize, Tel Aviv Museum
- 2000 George and Janet Jaffin Prize Since America-Israel Cultural Foundation
- 2003 Israel Prize was cancelled as he refused to participate at the awards ceremony
- 2003 Honor Member of the LGBT community for his contribution to culture.
- 2006 Yakir Bezalel Jerusalem
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Biography of Moshe Gershuni". C. Moss Gallery. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
- ↑ Moshe Gershuni: A Life in Art
External links
- Moshe Gershuni collection at the Israel Museum. Retrieved February 2012
- "Moshe Gershuni". Information Center for Israeli Art. Israel Museum. Retrieved February 2012.
- Art of Moshe Gershuni at Europeana. Retrieved February 2012
- "I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me...." Exhibition at Harel gallery, Har-El Printers & Publishers 2008