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The President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, pays his last respects to the late artist Dani Karavan, who passed away on Saturday, May 29, and is 90 years old....
Dani Karavan
Dani Karavan was born on 7 December 1930 in Tel Aviv.
His education at Bezalel School of Arts in Jerusalem and the art academies of Florence and Paris from 1950 to 1957 was soon followed by contracts for stage designs and murals in Israel.
Two years ago, Tamar Karavan gave up a successful career in photography and fashion to make a film about her father.He started with his first mural relief in concrete in 1962, e.g. for the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. Next came major government contracts for the Palace of Justice in Tel Aviv and the plenary hall of the Knesset. The largest of his early space sculptures was the monument in the Gegev Desert near Beer Sheba from 1963 to 1968.
Dani Karavan's environmental work Passages is a rhizomatic assemblage, a poem, combining whirlpools, rocks, corten steel, glass, cypress tree, stones, fence.
It is a monument for the Palmach Brigade of the 1947 war, situated in one hectare of seemingly endless desert made of concrete, desert acacias, water and windpipes. A 1971 exhibition in Florence brought Dani Karavan more to the attention of Europeans.
After 1975 he worked for museums and institutes in New York and Milan. The 38th Biennial of Venice, 1976, marked his final breakthrough. His participation at the