Buky Schwartz - Biography

Buky Schwartz (pronounced BOO-kie) (born 1932, died September 1, 2009) is an Israeli sculptor and video artist.

Biography

Schwartz was born in Jerusalem in 1932. From 1956 to 1958, he studied sculpture with Yitzhak Danziger (1916-1977) at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. In 1959, he moved to London, where he studied at the St. Martin's School of Art from 1959 to 1962. After returning to Israel in 1963, he created severely geometrical painted steel sculptures. In 1971, he moved to New York City, and began incorporating and making "video structures", videos in his large constructions, filling a room with different shapes which were all projected on a video screen as a unified whole. At that time he also placed mirrors within sculptures, reflecting both their full form and, from certain angles, their amputated parts. His video works are widely regarded in the United States as a landmark in the development of this medium. He lived and worked in both Tel Aviv and New York until his death in 2009.

Education

• 1957-59 Avni Institute of Art and Design, Tel Aviv
• 1959-62 St. Martin's School of Art, London

Teaching

• 1966-67 St. Martin's School of Art, London

Awards

• 1961 Sainsbury Awards, Sainsbury's, United Kingdom
• 1962 German Critics' Prize, Association of German Critics, Berlin, Germany
• 1965 was awarded the Dizengoff Prize for Sculpture.
• 1971 Nuremberg Urban Symposium Purchase Award, Nuremberg Urban Symposium, Nuremberg, Germany
• 1980 Fellowship, Community Arts Partnership, New York, USA
• 1983 Video Art Award, New York State Council on the Arts, New York, USA
• 1983 Residency Programme, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, USA
• 1987 Guggenheim Award, Guggenheim, New York, USA
• 1988 Sculpture Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, USA
• 1989 Annual International Prize for Video Sculpture, L'immagine Elettronica, Italy
• 1990 Grant for Publication, Guggenheim, New York, USA
• 1991 Painting and sculpture prize, Ministry of Culture and Education
• 1992 Video Sculpture Prize, Pollok Prize
• 1995 architect Arie El Hanani, Tel Aviv, Prize for Integration of Art and architecture
• Yehoshua Rabinowitz Fund for Arts, for his painted steel sculpture at Rothschild Blvd, Tel Aviv

Public sculptures

• 1963-64 Altars and Water Channels, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
• 1967 - "עמוד הגבורה", יד ושם, ירושלים (תמונה)
• 1969 Gates, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
• 1969 White from 0 Degrees to 180 Degrees, 1969, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
• 1986 Memorial to Jonathan Netanyahu, 1986, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1986 - Dead Sea Sculpture , Ein Bokek, Dead Sea תמונה)
• 1990 Metropolis, 1990, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (תמונה)
• 1996 - "אובליסק", דרך קיבוץ גלויות 34, תל אביב-יפו
• 1998 - "כותרת", מחוץ לבית ישרכארט, רח' המסגר 40, תל אביב-יפו
• 1998 - "מכונת פינבול", בית ישרכארט, רח' המסגר 40, תל אביב-יפו
• 1998 Environmental Sculpture, Ra'anana(תמונה)
• 2001 "Leonardo" Ramat Poleg, Netanya
• Painted steel sculpture, Rothschild Blvd, Tel Aviv
• 2002 - "בין ארץ לשמים", קריית אונו
• 2002 - "העץ הנדיב", רח' הופיין פינת רח' ויצמן, חולון
• 2007 Mosquito, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel(תמונה)
• "אווירון", תיאטרון גבעתיים, גבעתיים (תמונה)

Gallery

Further reading

• Bex, F., W. van Mulders, and H. van Pelt, Beyond Surface: Peter Berg, Benni Efrat, Tim Head, Buky Schwartz, Antwerp. Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, 1980.
• Hanhardt, John G., Buky Schwartz Videotapes 1978-80, Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, 1980.
• Museum of Israeli Art, Buky Schwartz 1990, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Museum of Israeli Art, 1990.
• Tel-Aviv Museum, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Buky Schwartz Sculptures, Tel-Aviv, The Tel-Aviv Museum, 1969.
• Videoart.net, 'Buky Schwartz Videoconstructions', with, commentary by John G.Hanhardt, 2007.

External links

• Buky Schwartz artist's website [1]
• Buky Schwartz from the Israeli artist list of the Information Center for Israeli Art at the Israel Museum