Motti Mizrachi

Motti Mizrachi
מוטי מזרחי
Motti Mizrachi (2012)
Born	Mordechai Mizrachi 1946 Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
Nationality	Israeli
Education	Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Known for	sculpture, multimedia
Notable work	Via Dolorosa (1973), The Eye of the Sun (2012)
Movement	Israeli art
Website	mottimizrachi.com

Mordechai (Motti) Mizrachi (Hebrew: מוטי מזרחי, born 1946) is an Israeli multimedia artist who creates politically engaged conceptual works that combine sculpture, video, photography, public art and performance. Dough, Via Dolorosa (1973) and Healing (1980) marked the emergence of avant-garde Israeli performance and video art. Since the 1980s, he has created numerous site specific public sculptures.

Biography

Disabled since childhood, Motti Mizrachi uses humor and self-irony in his work, with an emphasis on the flaws and pleasures of the human body, while examining the oppression and control of the strong over the weak, both socially and politically. In 1969-1973, he studied at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. He was represented in the 1980 Biennale de Paris, the 1987 and 1981 São Paulo Art Biennials, the 1988 Venice Biennale, and the 2003 Valencia Biennale.

Mizrachi lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Teaching

• 1980-1987 Bezalel, Jerusalem
• College of Art, School of Art Teachers, Ramat Hasharon
• Camera Obscura, Tel Aviv

Awards and recognition

• 1976 - Beatrice S. Kolliner Award for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• 1987 - Israeli Artist Award, Tel Aviv Museum and Bank Discount
• 1987 - Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• 1987 - Award, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
• 1997 - Prize to encourage creativity, Ministry of Education and Culture
• 2001 - Dan Sandel and Sandel Family Foundation Sculpture Award, Shoe Sculpture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• 2002 - Award, Israel Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport

Public Art

• 
  Pillar, screw and ducks, 1989
  Steel, bronze and stainless steel
  2 Masaryk Square, Tel Aviv-Yafo
• 
  The Fall of the Muses, 1991
  Bronze
  Ra'anana Park
• 
  The Fall of the Muses, 1991
  Bronze
  Ra'anana Park
• 
  Eastern Kiss, 1991
  Mixed media
  Opera Tower, Tel Aviv-Yafo
• 
  Angel of Peace, 1992
  Bronze
  Hatikva, Tel Aviv-Yafo
• 
  Sprinkler, 1996
  Holon
• 
  Icarus, 2002
  Stainless-steel, plexiglass and bronze, height 750 cm
  Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• 
  Herzl meets the Emperor of Germany, 2011
  Bronze
  Mikve Israel
• 
  The Eye of the Sun, 2007-2012
  Mixed media
  Tu District, Ashdod

See also

• Visual arts in Israel

Further reading

• Agassi, Meir, Zadok Ben David, Motti Mizrachi. The Israeli Pavilion, The Venice Biennale 1988, Venice, 1988.
• Haifa Museums, Motti Mizrachi-Rwanda Casanova, Haifa Museums, 2000, ISBN 965-7067-18-9.
• The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• curator: Lorand Hegyi, Makom: zeitgenössische Kunst aus Israel, Wien, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 1993, ISBN 3-900776-45-8.
• The Absent Body, Body Imagery Between Judaism and Christianity in the work of eight Israeli artists, Beit Hatfutsot, 2012, ISBN 978-965-425-024-5.
• Biennale di Valencia, 2003, Curator: Lorand Hegyi.
• "The Giving Person" group show, 2005, Napoli , Curator:Lorand Hegyi,( ISBN 88-510-0325-4).
• "Domicile - Private/Public", 2005, Saint-Etienne, Curator: Lorand Hegyi, 2005, (ISBN 2-85056-897-X).
• "Micro-Narratives", Saint-Etienne and later in Belgrade, 2008 ,Curator:Lorand Hegyi,(ISBN 978-88-6130-824-4).
• "Essential Experiences" 2009, Museum Palazzo Riso, Palermo, Curator: Lorand Hegyi, Catalogue: Essential Experiences Electa Editore, 2009, (ISBN 978-88-370-7433-3), together with Jan Fabre, Marina Abramovic, Richard Nonas, Dennis Oppenheim, Günther Uecker, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Lee Fan, Orlan, Gloria Friedmann.

External links

• MottiMizrachi.com Official website. Retrieved March 2012
• Motti Mizrachi YouTube channel. Retrieved March 2012
• Motti Mizrachi at the Information Center for Israeli Art. Israel Museum. Retrieved March 2012.
• Art of Motti Mizrachi at Europeana. Retrieved February 2012
• http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/10/02/whats-that-huge-white-bridal-dress-floating-over-the-tower-of-david/.. Retrieved November 2015.