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“To me the most important thing is the relationship to the place,
to the local landscape.”
Itzhak Danziger (1916-1977), a professor in the Technion Faculty of Architecture and 1968 Israel Prize laureate, will always be remembered as an artist, a sculptor, an educator, and a landscape designer, who left his mark on the Israeli art world and on Israeli cultural consciousness as a whole. The summer exhibition, “Earth. Water. Tree. Environmental Aspects in the Work of Itzhak Danziger” that showed in the PeKA Gallery, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, paid him homage. The exhibition focused on Danziger’s later works, emphasizing the interaction between humanity and our environment. “To me,” said Danziger in 1977, “the most important thing is the relationship to the place, to the local landscape… the search for roots here.”
“Itzhak was one of the best known Israeli sculptors,” remarked Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie at the opening. “His work was characterized by embracing nature and reconciling the rift that was created between man and his environment. He planned and executed many environmental projects which preserved and rehabilitated various sites and brought them back to their former glory. He was a man who loved Israel with all of his heart and that was very apparent in his work; there is no mistaking his feelings when you look at his work. Unfortunately we are celebrating his legacy without his physical presence as Itzhak was tragically killed in a car accident in 1977. However, there is no doubt in my mind that he is with us as is evident by the fact that even 33 years after his death his work is still as relevant as ever.” |
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Earth, Water, Tree
