Tuvia Beeri, Untitled Abstract

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etching & aquatint (hand-signed in English and numbered in pencil. Ed 99) Paper size: 15X11 inches Image size: 6X6 inches … Read more etching & aquatint (hand-signed in English and numbered in pencil. Ed 99) Paper size: 15X11 inches Image size: 6X6 inches Condition: work is in excellent condition and is unframed Tuvia Beeri was born in 1929 in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia.Beeri immigrated to Israel in 1948. He studied in 1957 at the Oranim Art Institute in Qiryat Tivon, with Marcel Janco and Yaakov Wexler and from 1961 to 1963 with Johnny Friedlaender at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1963 he returned to Israel to teach at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and from 1964 also etching at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv. He is considered one of the leading printmakers in Israel. His favorite printing technique is aquatint. Beeri has a meticulous care for detail while creating and destructing, exploding and merging luminous compositions of geometric shapes in a personal language of form and color. Beeri had exhibitions in the US, Canada, South America, Australia, Germany, France and Israel. The famed israeli artist Mordechai Ardon said, "Beeri's world is a world of imagination. But despite his leaning towards science fiction, he draws on the real world which surrounds us: on the geometric, the organic and the inorganic, on the machine, motion, light and on signs and symbols which are fused in nearly all his works. Here and there, as if from the depths of the forgotten past, a mysterious pyramid rises and a mountain range hovers like a fata morgana over an oasis." In 2001 he won the Eli Oshorov Prize for contribution to Israeli Art from the Israeli Painters and Sculptors Association (IPSA). See less