Achiam
Ahiam Shoshany called Achiam, ( born February 10, 1916 in Bet Gan, Palestine, † 26 March 2005 in Paris, France ) was a French -Israeli sculptor.
Life and work
Achiam worked with his father and brother on a farm in Palestine, and he received an education at an agricultural school. After the death of his father and brother, he lived and worked most of his life in France and had both the Israeli and French citizenship.
As a sculptor, he was trained by Zeev Ben Zvi and worked since 1945 in a quarry near Jerusalem. In 1947 he moved to Prague, where he won his first prize in an international competition, which was advertised for a monument to Lidice. Later he traveled to Paris, where he met the work of art brut of Jean Dubuffet. He attended various workshops, including by Ossip Zadkine and Constantin Brancusi, sculptor and stone quarries.
He created figurative works with abstract forms of basalt, granite, alabaster and serpentinite, quartzite, sandstone, limestone and marble. Achiam also produced works in wood and bronze.
Exhibitions
As early as 1948 could Achiam exhibit works in the prestigious Galerie René Drouin in Paris.
They took him to the bad part is that he lived in France and worked in Sèvres and not in Israel, where he exhibited regularly. A major exhibition of his was held in 1993 in Tefen sculpture garden in Tefen. 2003 a museum with his works was dedicated to him, the Achiam Sculpture Museum in Fort Shuni, which is a part of the archaeological place in Binyamina Caesarea Maritima in Israel.
19 works by him are in his house in Sèvres, which are located along a Sculpture Trail, by the Communauté d' agglomà Arc de Seine Chaville, Issy -les -Moulineaux, Meudon, Vanves and Ville d'Avray in common department Hauts -de -Seine were donated.
Symposia
Achiam took as a stone sculptor regularly in sculpture symposiums:
Photo Gallery
Hommage aux patriotes TOMBES pour la liberté (1963 )
Adam & Eve (1991 ) in Tefen
Joueur de guitare