Creator Bio
Nahum Tevet
b. 1946
Israeli sculptor Nahum Tevet was raised on a kibbutz and moved to Tel Aviv in his thirties. At the urging of Robert Rauschenberg, Tevet moved to New York in the 1970s. Today he lives in Israel and has headed Bezalel’s MFA program in Tel Aviv. Tevet has had solo shows in galleries in Jerusalem, Düsseldorf, Paris, New York, Zurich, and Tel Aviv. He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ministry of Science and Culture and Sport, Israel Council of Culture and Art.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Jamma’in II
In Tevet’s deconstructionist wall sculpture, Jamma’in II, painted boxes and other shapes, some of which look like tables and chairs, are arranged around a yellow ring. All the objects seem to be in…