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Dani Karavan retrospective at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is summarizing a rich and fruitful oeuvre spanning more than sixty years. As the exhibition curator Prof. Mordechai Omer is going far back as the early 1960s, in order to study the early phases in his work.

The present show unfolds a coherent and sequential course between the early and the later, internationally acclaimed, works, and points to the manner in which his artistic language gradually grew from a formal vocabulary of an illustrator of children’s weeklies and leaflets in the kibbutz to the design of national exhibitions and stages of the Israeli army entertainment troupes. His “Negev Monument,” created in the mid-1960s, is today considered a masterpiece in Israeli art.

Born 1930 in Tel Aviv, Karavan is best known for site specific memorials and monuments which merge into the environment. Throughout the periods of his work Karavan is attuned to the demands and circumstances of the specific time and place, which form the basis for his way of thinking and the modes of his artistic creation. In 1977 Karavan was awarded the Israel Prize and in 1998 was one of five recipients of the Japanese annual Praemium Imperiale art prize.

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