Royden Rabinowitch

Royden Rabinowitch ( born March 6, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a Canadian- Belgian sculptor and draftsman.

Life and work

Royden Rabinowitch was born in 1943 in Toronto, Canada. Haim D. Rabinowitch is his uncle and the sculptor David Rabinowitch his twin brother.

He spent his school days at the Richmond Hill High School, Ontario. In the 60s, at the beginning of his career in London, he was around to a group of artists to Tony Urquhart. After moving to Waterloo, he taught at the University of Waterloo and later free art at the Ontario College of Fine Art In the 70s he moved to the United States and taught at Yale University in New Haven. Other teaching assignments Leiden in the Netherlands followed at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and the University.

R. Rabinowitch currently lives in Ghent, Belgium and Dublin, Ireland.

The work of R. Rabinowitch includes floor and wall sculptures in metal and large-scale drawings, the artistic minimalism are very close. In his early works he refers explicitly to Alberto Giacometti, David Smith and Constantin Brâncuşi.

"(...) In addition to the art itself Rabinowitch but also deals with studies of music and science. This lead him to the belief that the shape of reality, which is clearly defined by the rationality of science, can not be reconciled with the sensual and physical experience space. The contradiction between knowledge and experience becomes for him the subject of an intense debate continues to this day and is thus of decisive influence in the development of its consistent visual language. (...) "

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo Exhibitions

  • Royden Rabinowitch 2013 and Heerich Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
  • Royden Rabinowitch 2001 - Handed operator bundles through two or three axes ... SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Arts, Ghent
  • 1992 Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
  • Royden Rabinowitch 1990: Sculpture Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Bern

Group Exhibitions

  • 2012 SMAK: Track, cultural city of Ghent
  • 2010 In -between Minimalisms & Free Sol Lewitt - Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
  • 2005 Alfred Jensen Royden Rabinowitch - Nombres 2 - Mamco - musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
  • 1992 Documenta 9, Kassel
  • 1989 -evidence Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
  • 1986 SkulpturSein Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf
  • 1985 tracks, sculptures and monuments of their precise journey Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
  • 1977 Onze sculpteurs canadiens - Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC

Awards (selection)

  • 2012 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts
  • 2003 Officer of the Order of Canada
  • 2002 Maxwell Cummings Distinguished Lecture, Faculty of Arts, McGill University
  • 1986 Clare Hall, Cambridge Life Member
  • 1986 Victor Martyn Lynch - Staunton Award for artists
London (Ontario) Waterloo (Ontario) David Smith (sculptor) Erwin Heerich Abteiberg Museum MARTa Herford Herford Museum of Fine Arts Berne Harald Szeemann Jan Hoet Rudi Fuchs Integrated Authority File
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