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\"\"<\/a>Israeli artist Dani Karavan passed Saturday in Tel Aviv, where he was born in 1930. Famous for his poignant monuments in Israel and around the world, Karavan had a particular relationship with Italy, born at the time he was studying Fresco painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Master of environmental art, he was the author of some of the most important artworks in Israel such as the huge wall carving in the hall of the Knesset, named Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem, 1965-1966) and his first site specific environmental sculpture \u2013 the\u00a0Negev Monument\u00a0(Be\u2019er Sheva, Israel 1963-1968), which became a landmark in Environmental Art.
\nDani Karavan was commissioned to create environmental sculptures in Israel, France, Germany, United States, Korea, Taiwan and Japan to name a few. He exhibited in numerous museums around the world and is a recipient of prestigious international awards. Among his last exhibitions there was the one in Italy, at the MEIS – National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara, where the then director Simonetta Della Seta had called him. It was 2018, the 80th anniversary of the promulgation of racist laws. \u201cThe Garden that doesn\u2019t exist\u201d is a site-specific project, which represents Karavan\u2019s homage to Giorgio Bassani\u2019s book The Garden of the Finzi Continis.
\n\u201cI came to Ferrara for the first time in 1956 to see the frescoes by Francesco del Cossa and Cosm\u00e9 Tura\u201d, he said. \u201cI fell in love with the city and have been back many more times since then. In the 1980s I met Paolo Ravenna there and a friendship immediately broke out. Thanks to him, I discovered the Jewish side of Ferrara and the story of Giorgio Bassani. The idea of\u200b\u200b The Non-Existent Garden came to me when I ran into a group of Americans looking for the Finzi-Continis garden behind a wall in Corso Ercole I d\u2019Este without finding anything\u201d.
\nSo, why not use that wall in Corso Ercole I d\u2019Este to create the entrance into a void, into the garden that is not there? he thought. Gradually, explained Karavan, the suggestion became clearer, outlined, populated with objects. Here, then, is a railway, with the dual function of physically giving the public access to that place, now no longer just mental, and of remembering the tragic fate of the many Italian Jewish families who by train went to meet their death, deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz and in other extermination camps.
\n\u201cI remember those days as a gift, an unforgettable experience\u201d, Della Seta explains to Pagine Ebraiche. \u201cI had met Karavan years before, in Israel. What struck me was not only the greatness of his artistic investigation. But also that simplicity in the ways that is typical of all the great ones \u201c.
\nSome of the most celebrated works by Dani Karavan include\u00a0Axe Majeur\u00a0(1980-ongoing, Cergy Pontoise, France),\u00a0Passages \u2013 Homage to Walter Benjamin\u00a0(1990-1994, Portbou, Spain),\u00a0Murou Art Forest\u00a0(1998-2006, Murou, Japan),\u00a0Memorial to the Sinti-Roma\u00a0(1999-2012, Berlin Germany),\u00a0Square of Culture\u00a0(2005-2012, Tel Aviv, Israel)\u00a0and\u00a0White Square\u00a0(1977-1988, Tel Aviv, Israel).\u00a0He has exhibited in numerous museums around the world and is a recipient of prestigious international awards, such as the Israel Prize (1977); Silver Medal for Plastic Arts of the French Academy of Architecture (1992); Goslar Kaiser Ring for Visual Art, Germany (1996); the first Unesco\u2019s Artist of Peace (1996); Praemium Imperiale \u2013 the Nobel Prize for the Arts, Japan (1998); the Goethe Medal, Germany (1999); Premio Michelangelo, Carrara, Italy (2005); Knight of the French \u201cL\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur\u201d (2014) among others.<\/p>\n

(Above, the Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan during a visit at the MEIS. Image by Marco Caselli Nirmal)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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