Motti Mizrachi Explained

Motti Mizrachi
Native Name:	מוטי מזרחי
Native Name Lang:	he
Birth Name:	Mordechai Mizrachi
Birth Date:	1946
Birth Place:	Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
Nationality:	Israeli
Field:	sculpture, multimedia
Training:	Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Movement:	Israeli art
Works:	Via Dolorosa (1973), The Eye of the Sun (2012)

Mordechai (Motti) Mizrachi (he|מוטי מזרחי, born 1946) is an Israeli multimedia artist who creates politically engaged conceptual works that combine sculpture, video, photography, public art and performance.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3] 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.^[4]

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

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, .
• The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• curator: Lorand Hegyi, Makom: zeitgenössische Kunst aus Israel, Wien, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 1993, .
• The Absent Body, Body Imagery Between Judaism and Christianity in the work of eight Israeli artists, Beit Hatfutsot, 2012, .
• Biennale di Valencia, 2003, Curator: Lorand Hegyi.
• "The Giving Person" group show, 2005, Napoli, Curator: Lorand Hegyi, .
• "Domicile - Private/Public", 2005, Saint-Etienne, Curator: Lorand Hegyi, 2005, .
• "Micro-Narratives", Saint-Etienne and later in Belgrade, 2008, Curator:Lorand Hegyi,.
• "Essential Experiences" 2009, Museum Palazzo Riso, Palermo, Curator: Lorand Hegyi, Catalogue: Essential Experiences Electa Editore, 2009, , 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.
  • http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/10/02/whats-that-huge-white-bridal-dress-floating-over-the-tower-of-david/.. Retrieved November 2015.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Klein Leichman. Abigail. Great Israeli road trips: Tel Aviv to Beersheva. 21 News.
2. Web site: The work of Motti Mizrachi cannot be easily classified.
3. Web site: Holland. Cotter. 'DATELINE ISRAEL: NEW PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO ART'. The New York Times.
4. Web site: Motti Mizrachi.