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URI DE-BEER

Lives and works in Kfar- Saba, Israel
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Uri de -Beer was born in Haifa Israel, and is a Technion graduate-Archi- him to create a poetic world of his environmental monuments, sculptures
tect of Muenchen, Germany. He furthered his studies in City Planning and and paintings. Uri’s art belongs and intermingles with the city’s scape and
Fine Arts at the Kunst Academy of Duesseldorf. Fine Arts he studied at the with nature while using existing architectonic elements and turn it into pure
class of Joseph Beuys, and with the American architect Bruce Goff. During 17 art of environmental sculpture. During the past years he exhibited his works
years Uri was employed in the capacity of Sede-Boker’s Engineer/Architect of art in Israel and abroad. In the southern region of Israel, Uri turned a high
and won the Ben-Gurion Prize for planning and development of Sede-Boker electrical power line pole of 60 meter into a beautiful environmental sculpture.
in the Negev Desert (where Ben-Gurion settled and spent his latest years and de-Beer utilizes sun rays going through his transparent colorful elements to
was buried). In his work of art, Uri employs self - developed computer tech- create a colored mobile magic on the sandy ground, moving clockwise during
niques to magnify or decrease size, alter colors and his images with real life the day. In the Artist Museum of Lodge, Poland, Uri created a painted wall,
landscape and ecological, environmental problems. While doing so it enables as homage to Yazi Kushinsky’s “The painted Bird.”

 ARCHIGRAM 2, 2003 COAL ON DIGITAL PRINTED CANVAS 180X90 CM. /71X35 IN.

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