About ITZIK BENSHALOM
Biography
Since I was a child I worked with my father, sculptor Itzik Benshalom
Benshalom left behind a significant estate.
I want to use this platform to keep people happy with details from my father's collection that I am interested in selling.
Three monomaltic works are exhibited in the permanent exhibition of the Grounds for Sculptures in the United States
It will be a great joy to continue the tradition of my late father
Museum Collections:
The sculptures of Itzik Benshalom reflect passion for life and relationships.
Through
this overview of the last 4 decades of the artist's work, a sense of
discovery
of the human experience becomes apparent. Varieties of connections
made
by the abstracted figures are shown through the use of interlocking soft
and
flowing forms juxtaposed with angular lines. How the figures are positioned
in
relation to each other helps to define the interaction. In some, a clear
relationship
is
explored while others remain more mysterious. About his work Benshalom
states,
"My
work flows, as life flows. I tell people not to think about my work. If they
love it,
just
love it. That's what I do."
Born
in Hadera,
Israel in 1945, Benshalom
became a merchant marine at the age of
fifteen.
This formative experience influenced his work as he traveled the world several
times
soaking in new images and textures. Upon completing his military service to the
Israeli
Navy, Benshalom knew
that he wanted to work with metal-a material that had
always
fascinated him.
In
1967, he and his brother-in-law set up a foundry specializing in the lost wax
method
of
casting sculpture. For years he worked with other artists from Israel and
from all over
the
world, helping them to realize their concepts. Benshalom states that he can't say he
even
thought about it, but one day he began to work on an idea for his own sculpture
.
From
then on he stopped doing other artist's work and began his own journey as a
sculptor.
Died
in 18/3/2018
Benshalom was
represented by Christy contemporary art - London & Nahan
Galleries
New
York & New Orlins.
Benshalom’s
sculptures are in private, public, and corporate collections throughout the
world
including Israel, Japan, England, and the United States.
Museum Collections:
Boca Raton Museum of Art- FL
Ground for Sculpture Museum- Hamilton, N.J
Flint Institute of Art- MIC
Museum of Fine Art- Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
