Ezra Orion
Illustration — Ezra Orion • Illustration — Tilted power field by Ezra Orion, Ramat Aviv Ezra Orion (1934–2015) was an Israeli sculptor.
Ezra Orion
צלם לא ידוע · ארכיון עזרא אוריון, המרכז לאמנות דיגיטלית, חולון · Public domain
- Born
- 1934. · Beit Alfa.
- Died
- 2015.
- Nationality
- Israel.
- Occupation
- sculptor, educator and poet.
- Fields
- art of sculpture.
- Education
- Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Central Saint Martins and Royal College of Art.
- Languages
- Hebrew.
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Illustration — Ezra Orion • Illustration — Tilted power field by Ezra Orion, Ramat Aviv Ezra Orion (1934–2015) was an Israeli sculptor.
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Biography
Biography
Ezra Orion studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Central Saint Martins and Royal College of Art. The recorded working language is Hebrew. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture. Work by Ezra Orion is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Israel Museum and Ein Harod museum of art.
Ezra Orion was born on Kibbutz Beit Alfa in Mandatory Palestine. The family moved to Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan when he was five. In 1952, he attended the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem but left after a year of studies to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces. From 1964 to 1967, he attended the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London. Orion lived and worked at Midreshet Ben-Gurion in Sde Boker. Orion describes his geologic structures as “launching pads” for the mind. In the late 1980s, he executed an "Intergalactic Sculpture" by sending a Laser beam to the Milky Way under the auspices of the Israeli Space Agency and the Israel Museum.
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Ezra Orion is recorded as having studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Central Saint Martins and Royal College of Art.
עזרא אוריון עם דגם "שדה פסלים"
אבנר עופר · ארכיון עזרא אוריון, המרכז לאמנות דיגיטלית, חולון
עזרא אוריון עם דגם "שדה פסלים"
אבנר עופר · ארכיון עזרא אוריון, המרכז לאמנות דיגיטלית, חולון
Life and career
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Life and career
Explore 1934–2015
The full dated record · 10 entries
1934
Ezra Orion born at Beit Alfa.
1962
Untitled is dated 1962.
1968
Sculpture Field is dated 1968.
1972
Monument to the fallen during the Six Day War is dated 1972.
1972
Gadot lookout is dated 1972.
1980
Maalot is dated 1980.
1981
Toward Annapurna is dated 1981.
1986
Field of Rocks is dated 1986.
1995
Tilted Force field is dated 1995.
2015
Ezra Orion died.
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Israel's best forgotten artist
- 2.A Week with Four Artists of the Negev.
- 3.Inter-Galactic Sculpture by Ezra Orion.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Orion, Ezra, Sculpture in the Solar System: From Geologically Based Earthworks to Astro-Sculpture in Leonardo, Vol. 18, No. 3 (1985), pp. 157–160.
- Orion, Ezra, Intergalactic Sculpture toward the Third Millenium, self-published in 2001.
- Zalmona, Ygal, Ezra Orion/Tectonic Sculpture, Yeda Sela, 1982.
- Kedar, Dorit. Conversation with Ezra Orion, Psifas Autumn 1994, Number 25, Pg. 34-35.
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