Benni Efrat

Benni Efrat studied at Saint Martin's School of Art and Avni Institute of Art and Design. The field of work recorded is sculptor. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City, Paris and Amsterdam. Work by Benni Efrat is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Janco Dada Museum, Israel Museum, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art and ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.

• Name — Benni Efrat بني إفرات • Born — 1936 • Birthplace — Beirut, Lebanon • Known for — Conceptual art • Training — Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, Saint Martin's School of Art, London • Movement — Israeli art

Benni Efrat immigrated to Palestine in 1947. From 1959 to 1961, he studied at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv under Yehezkel Streichman (1906–1993). From 1966 to 1976, he lived in London, where he studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London.

Benni Efrat was one of the pioneers of Israeli Conceptual artists and influenced others in this direction (e.g., Joshua Neustein, Michael Gitlin, Buky Schwartz). His works were systems of components that spoke for themselves and sought to represent no more than the sum of their parts. In the mid-1970s, his displays were accompanied by films, on the back of which the artist had painted. After settling in New York City in 1976, became involved with conceptual art, producing drawings, prints, and photographs that explore energy, space, and the perception in sculpture. Efrat currently lives in Belgium.

• Illustration — Substance moving, 1969 Sponge, foam rubber and metal panel • Illustration — Energy, 1969 Stainless steel Tel Aviv University • Illustration — Extrapolations, limestone and steel cable sculpture, 1978, Israel Museum, Jerusalem • Illustration — Stain on the Vision, 1999 Zinc coated barbed wire sculpture Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv