Native name אורי קצנשטיין Role Visual Artist Name Uri Katzenstein | Nationality Israeli Period Avant-garde | |
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Known for Sculpting, visual art, music and film Education | ||
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Uri Katzenstein (Hebrew: אורי קצנשטיין; born 1951) is a prominent Israeli sculptor, visual artist, musician, builder of musical instruments and sound machines, and film maker.
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- Uri katzenstein skin
- Tel aviv museum of art israel lior and the artwork of uri katzenstein wedding band
- Background
- Career
- Awards
- Books
- References
Tel aviv museum of art israel lior and the artwork of uri katzenstein wedding band
Background
Uri was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1951. In his youth, he played music and joined several Rock bands. In 1969, he joined the Israeli Defense Forces and fought in the Yom Kippur War. During the late seventies of the 20th century, Uri studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and after receiving his MFA moved to New York City where he lived and worked throughout the eighties. His early works, starting from the late seventies, involved different avant-garde media Exhibits, music, performance, video and sound art. In the mid-nineties of the 20th century, he began creating sculptured Figurines, in addition to objects and sound machines which were all merged and composed as one time-based viewing / listening events.
Career
After returning to Israel, he and Noam HaLevi produced the show "Midas". In 1993 he took part in the rock opera "Samara" by Hallel Mitelpunkt and the band Nikmat HaTraktor. In 1999, he published a music album, along with Ohad Fishof, entitled "Skin O Daayba", which served as a basis for a musical performance. In 2001, he produced the show "Home" along with Renana Raz and Ohad Fishof. In the early two-thousands he began to create video art consisting of surreal events while emphasizing subject matter of personal identity. Among his notable works are "Patʹshegen" (Hebrew: פתשגן)(1993) and "Family of Brothers" (Hebrew: משפחת האחים)(2000). His early performance work was regularly presented at such legendary performance venues as The Kitchen, No-Se-No, 8BC and Danceteria. His work in sculpture, video and installation have been exhibited in museums such as The Russian State Museum (St. Petersburg), The Chelsea Art Museum (New York City), Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, The Israel Museum, Duke University Museum of Art (North Carolina). Katzenstein participated in the Sao-Paulo Biennale (1991), the Venice Biennale (2001), the Buenos Aires Biennale (first prize, 2002), and the 9th Istanbul Biennale (2005). His performance work was shown in theatres and galleries in London, Berlin, San Francisco, Cardiff (Wales), Santiago de Compostela (Spain), New York City, and Tel Aviv.
Today, Uri Katzenstein lectures in the Department of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Haifa.
Awards
Katzenstein has received the following awards: