Israel Hadany, Large Stainless Steel Abstract Israeli Sculpture 'Three Tubes' Maquette, 1979

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Israel Hadany (Israeli, 1941-). A stainless steel maquette for sculpture "Three Tubes", currently installed at the University of Pennsylvania in … more Israel Hadany (Israeli, 1941-). A stainless steel maquette for sculpture "Three Tubes", currently installed at the University of Pennsylvania in the Morris Arboretum. Sculpture is mounted on a square iron base. Unmarked. 24 in x 12 in x 12 in.

The one at the Arboretum is described as
Material: stainless steel over structural steel, 1979
Gift of Philip and Muriel Berman
Three Tubes presents a visual puzzle. Three disconnected cylinders are aligned in a column as if by magic. But if your eyes trace the path of the shapes from bottom to top, you'll discover that it really doesn't defy gravity.

Israel Hadany (Hebrew: ישראל הדני‎, Israel ha-Dani) (born 1941) is an Israeli environment artist , sculptor and jewelry designer, internationally acknowledged. He is involved with poetry writing as well. Born in Beit HaShita kibutz. Along his childhood his family moved several times, first to Ayelet Hashahar kibbutz, later to Kfar Ganim (nearby Petah Tikva) and finally to Jerusalem.
At the age of 15 he started his art studies at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv, taking evening courses while continuing his high school learning during day time. He was the youngest student in the institute among other mature students. He focused on drawing and painting studies and was deeply involved in his art. Later he returned there but soon realized that painting is not going to be enough for his artistic and personal aspirations.
1965 - 1967 He turned to post graduate studies at Hornsey College of Art, London.
The years in London influenced deeply his art. His confrontation with monumental ancient civilization's art in the British Museum was highly influential and left a significant imprint on his art. He mentions often a monumental sculpture from the Easter Islands . In Hornsey College he focused mainly on sculpture.
Several years after his return to Israel (1971) he was invited to teach sculpture and design at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.
1972 Hadany Represented Israel at the Venice Biennale, Italy.
Hadany often collaborates in his art with architects and thinkers and creates environmental works of art.
1975 He works with Taller de Arquitectura of Ricardo Bofill. Barcelona .
1981-1982 creates the first artonomic system in sculpture.
1983 Represents Israel at the International Symposium on Outdoor Sculpture at Yorkshire.
2000 Among the five finalists in the international competition of Martin Luther King National Memorial Project Washington.
2001 Guest artist at the International Sculpture Symposium, Carrara.

Selected Public Works
1975 Glass Sculpture, Beit Yad Lebanim, Jerusalem.
1977 Memorial Sculpture , Ben Gurion Airport .
1985 Sky Pool , The Open Museum ,Tefen , Israel.
1987 Sky Pool , The Israel Museum Sculpture Garden.
1998 The Shrine of Trees , the National Library , Hebrew University , Jerusalem.
2001 Here lays the dove's shadow. Carrara.
2016 The Blue System. Har Hotzvim Jerusalem
Like Yaacov Agam, Menashe Kadishman, Dani Karavan, Yechiel Shemi and Igael Tumarkin his large scale environmental works can be found all around Israel and around the world. Hadany's art is concerned with the sublime and the transcendental often allusive of ancient monumental Egyptian and Assyrian art. Most of his earlier three dimensional works were abstract geometric and minimalist. but after his visit to India in 2005 his art has undergone a deep change and was opened to new directions. Oasis, his artistic environment in Beersheba for instance is colorful and rich in shapes.

Select Individual and group shows:

• 1969- Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• 1972-The 36th Biennale Venice, Italy.
• 1979-"Trends in Israeli Art". Art Basel, Switzerland.
• 1984-"80 Years of Israeli Sculpture". Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
• 1985-"Jerusalem Artists at the Grand Palais". Paris, France.
• "Prints by Israeli Artists". Christies, London, England.
• 1986-"Artists from Columbia and Israel". Jerusalem; Bogotá, Colombia.
• 1988-"40 Israeli Artists". Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA.
• 1992-"The Sculpture Biennale". Osaka, Japan.
• 1993-"The Fujisankai Biennale". Utsuhushi-Ga-Hara Outdoor Museum, Japan.
• 1995-"Days of Jerusalem Culture". Prague, Czech Republic.
• 1998-"Milestones, Israeli Sculpture 1948-1998". The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel.
• 2003-4 -"Visual Memories". The Open Museums Tefen and Omer, Israel.
• 2007- One man show at the Monart Museum,
Ashdod One man show at the Golconda Gallery, Tel- Aviv.

Select Prizes and awards:

• 1969- First prize, Art Integrated into Architecture Competition
• 1970- First prize, Street Furniture Competition, Israel Haifa, Israel.
• "Kolliner Prize for young artists". Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
• 1971-"Ika Braun Prize". Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
• First prize, Israel Room Competition, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
• "Electronica 71", Tadiran Sculpture Prize. Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
• 1974- First prize for Design of the Burial Site of David Ben Gurion. Sde- Boker. • 1980-"The Jerusalem Arts Award", Jerusalem, Israel.
• 1992-"Discount Bank Prize for Israeli artists". Awarded by the Israel Museum,
• 1993- First prize, redesign of the old Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, Israel
• 2005-"Alix de Rothschild Craft awards", prize.
• First Place in the "Andromeda" sculpture competition for the Jaffa Harbor
• 2015 - Prize in the 2014 China-Fuzhou International Sculpture Exhibition
Erected more than 70 Outdoor and Environmental Sculptures in Israel and abroad. less